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"But 85 per cent of women are still wearing the wrong size - honest to God. They'll come in to Rigby & Peller and they'll be falling out of their bra, the cups are sitting on top of their breasts like nipple warmers."
"When you're passionate about an issue, you do extreme things. It was around 1970, and if Jews wanted to leave Russia, they were being arrested. I didn't want my children to grow up and ask if I knew what was happening but chose to do nothing. So while they were at school, I'd go and do all these mad things."
"It's definitely the secret to a successful relationship. Your children are very important and you do everything for them, but your husband is your priority because when they've flown the nest, it's you and him."
"People say they would kill to know what I know – and that is exactly what they would have to do."
"But it was all brilliant, we got on very well and I’ve had the Royal Warrant since 1982, so I must be doing something right"
"The [Rigby & Peller] name is known all over the world, which is so satisfying because it’s what I’ve worked for"
"Harold decided he was not interested. ‘We don’t need Rigby & Peller. I don’t want Rigby & Peller. We can’t afford Rigby & Peller."
""So we developed our own method to help." This involved ditching the measuring tape and simply assessing each customer's needs by sight."
"A tape measure doesn't say, for instance, 'she's big here with a narrow back.' It just gives you numbers. But we can look at what figure type you are and find the solution immediately."
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.