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"We need disciplined, consistent and exemplary leaders of labour movement, leaders who stand for truth, leaders who stand for workers"
"Let us take the spear to defend the workers course, those who defy the interests of workers must be defied"
"Why create a mess and want to reset it?"
"We have a duty to deliver on the statutory mandate clearly crafted for us"
"If you are a strong leader, you participate in the contestation of ideas, you don't run away."
"It's like a herd boy from the cattle post who wishes to marry a white girl, it can never happen"
"What the country now demands, is a radical shift, not in policy theory alone, but in practical, structural, and people-centred transformation"
"We want life to make sense at the village level"
"We must devise African solutions to African problems"
"it takes a long time to train revolutionaries, not less than two years"
"Africa as a continent must decolonise the government system and economic system"
"development must involve the very people that need development"
"We cannot allow courts to decide who should be the rightful heirs of Bogosi. This is contrary to our culture and undermines the essence of our diverse customs"
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.