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"The new law will help girls to say 'no', and make people think twice. But we really have to bring ownership to the community, otherwise it will just go underground."
"We have a new constitution where there's room for everybody to exploit their potential. There's gender equality; a girl, a boy, a man, a woman has to play their role in national development"
"There's no culture which is dynamic"
"Sex is in the mind. When you are prepared psychologically it will be ok"
"The biggest resources already in place is people. I am calling on all Kenyans to come out and protect the rights of the girl child"
"The destiny of the girl child is under threat especially from the FGM practicing communities. The girls/ ladies from those communities are missing in action"
"Female Genital Mutilation is detrimental in all aspects. Health, development, education. It is not good"
"The law is there for you, you simply need to report"
"They never know what they are missing until they discover"
"Whenever we hear disaster, everybody runs there. They don't check whether they are having a shoe as they are running there, they are just running there to protect or to see what has happened"
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.