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"They asked me to do Grande Fratello [Big Brother] in all editions. But I like staying at home, I don't like socializing, being cooped up doesn't scare me. In the end, I'm not even afraid of living with others. However, my image, my relationship with my image, is not straightforward, so being filmed 24 hours a day... Perhaps, though, in the end it would be a form of shock therapy: that's how it was with flying, after all, I got over it by flying."
"[About the wedding that never took place with Al Bano] There has been a lot of talk about it, but in reality, I never asked for it. Only at one point, about ten years ago, was it considered. Al Bano was planning his life and asked me, then it all fell through, but it wasn't a big deal. Of course, I would have liked it, marriage was part of my life plans, that's how I thought my life would be, I had the example of my family, not because other families aren't good, far from it... And then my horizons broadened, but nothing has changed."
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.