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"Matagal na akong binabatikos. Bring it on! Handang handa na rin ako. Alam mo ang turo sa akin ni Mar kung hindi totoo, hindi didikit ‘yan ang tawag d’on Teflon effect. Lahat ng opinyon welcome kung makakabuti para sayo bakit hindi. Kung talagang papansinin mo lahat ‘yan hindi ka makakilos. (I have long been criticized. Bring it on! I am ready. Mar has taught me that if it is not true, it should not stick; it’s called Teflon effect. All opinions are welcome, much more those which will make you better. But if you mind all of them, you will not be able to function.)"
"Journalism before doesn't mean there's no good in it. You must continue to strive to be factual. Facts are facts. You cannot change them. You can interpret them or angle them, but facts are facts. So be factual. Get all the facts straight from as many sides as you can."
"Our Nanay Fe left us tonight. She joins my Mom and Dad and my brother for a reunion she told us she was ready for. True mothers need not be blood."
"Journalism now is very fluid. The kind of journalism that I knew then is dead for me."
"It's still important to be disciplined. In any skill, you require training and discipline. If you don't have that, you can explode in all directions."
"The most important thing you can teach your child is to adapt to change. Change is the only constant. Kung hindi ka marunong mag-adapt sa change, maiiwan ka. (If you don't know how to adapt to change, you will be left behind),"
"People today need to verify news first before believing it."
"I think you are as relevant as the contribution you made to do. I'm relevant if I'm able to help someone or make a difference for the good."
"If there’s anything in life that you have to accept, No one has it all. I don't have it all."
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.