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"Luckily this time it was only music and no interaction so I performed for about half an hour. It felt good at the end when the crowd called for extra songs shouting ‘we want more."
"By the first concert I still couldn’t believe I was in Berlin. We had lunch with the Namibian Ambassador to Germany, Neville Gertze at a restaurant near the embassy. Then it was the interviews with the radio stations and the first sound check."
"I strongly believe in taking Africa to the world and when you get an opportunity like that, you take it with both hands."
"I wish I could win but it’s okay if I didn’t. I am not going home with nothing, I am going back home with lots of opportunities. Big brother stargame is only the beginning of many doors that are going to open. My experience in the Big Brother house wasn’t all about the money; yes I would have loved to win the money. Being in the house for all of Africa to see me was worth as much as gold. I enjoyed it."
"I will love to work with my fellow musician housemates. I am open to anyone."
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.