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"“That’s why we have to demand it, as voters [and] as people. It is our job as voters to be more noisy about ‘right namin 'to, right namin na mapanuod kayo.’ Gusto namin marinig more than your jingle, more than your TikTok dance, whatever. What are you about–– we want to know. We have to demand this. This is our right. It’s like being in a bad relationship. If you accept it, and you’re okay with it, aren’t you kind of accountable? You have to speak up. We have to reclaim our voice as the voting public."
"My favorite part of being married to a musician is having a partner who fully supports me and understands what I go through."
"Overall, I like a home that looks like you can have fun in it. It’s relaxed and looks lived in, and not like a gallery space that’s too perfect that you’re afraid to sit down or move."
"I can’t have a tidy room. I want a space that feels like me, and which feels like home."
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.