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"I'm not really interested in building a reputation for myself. But I do care for what the company stands for. I believe in work and being connected to the world we live in."
"(Sitting at the Bar Quadronno in Milan's Quadronno district) I come here all the time! […] It's right next to my apartment, which is in the building where I grew up, and my mother is still there, on the first floor, and my brother is on the third floor, and it's right next to my children's school [...], and it's not too far from my office, and it's open all day and very late, every day. It's cute, isn't it?"
"If everyone wants to make things black, I'll make things red: it's stronger than me. Starting from this principle, I develop my thoughts, which I always express with shapes and colors. Never with slogans, because I believe politics should be approached in a more complex way."
"Cresciuta in Porta Romana, Miuccia Prada vi abita tuttora (risiede nello specifico in Corso di Porta Romana); non ci stupisce quindi che abbia deciso di aprire la sua Fondazione nell'adiacente quartiere di Corso Lodi."
"Ich hasse die Idee, Kunst zu machen, um Taschen zu verkaufen. Es geht nicht darum, damit Taschen zu verkaufen. Kunst ist einfach nur schön."
"Frauen sollen aufhören, sich aufreizend zu kleiden. Je provokanter die Robe, desto weniger sexy ist die Frau."
"(Sitzt in der Bar Quadronno in Mailand im Quartiere Quadronno) "Ich komme die ganze Zeit hierher! [...] Es liegt direkt neben meiner Wohnung, die in dem Gebäude liegt, in dem ich aufgewachsen bin, und meine Mutter ist immer noch dort, im ersten Stock, und mein Bruder ist im dritten Stock, und es ist direkt neben dem meiner Kinder Schule [...], und es ist nicht weit von meinem Büro entfernt und es ist den ganzen Tag und jeden Tag bis spät in die Nacht geöffnet. Es ist süß, nicht wahr?""
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.