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"There’s a lot of complications in this industry for being on the road as a female musician in a more conservative musical world. We just saw the first female winner for instrumental categories this year at IBMA, for a fiddle player, Becky Buller and for a mandolin player, Sierra Hull. It’s one thing to nominated in those categories; it’s a whole other thing to win it."
"I think that there’s definitely a younger generation coming to bluegrass that sees the world in a different light. You saw this energy and this charge that came from younger people coming in to bluegrass and IBMA and really caring about inclusivity. It affected some of the professionals and the people who have been in the business for longer; we saw them empowered to speak on behalf of inclusivity.”"
"In addition to coming from a powerful music family (she’s a fifth-generation fiddler), Kimber Ludiker is also one of the best known ambassadors of bluegrass today. Through her work with her all-female bluegrass band Della Mae and her work overseas with the U.S. State Department, Ludiker’s been a voice for reason, pushing for more diversity and inclusiveness in bluegrass. A dedicated sidewoman in bluegrass, she’s keen to improve opportunities for women who aren’t bandleaders in bluegrass."
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.