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"This is a prayer to our Lord Almighty crying for mercy and protection from the natural disasters that we face and which leave us devastated from the mass loss of human life"
"These include Cyclone Idai that we experienced as Zimbabwe, Mozambique and some parts of South Africa. The song not only talks of Chimanimani but all the trials and tribulations we face as the human race"
"The song talks of the struggles of a young man who wishes to marry the king's daughter yet he is not from royal bloodlines. Love pushes him to defy the odds and like they say, true love always wins"
"It pains me the most. The energy we feed on onstage comes from fans. A concert is what brings life to us, but we have adapted to the current situation"
"It is very hard, with the current situation, to release an album virtually without fans"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.