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"'if mama ain't happy, then no one else is'. The same goes for a nation'."
"'slow development is the correlation between justice and peace. If you keep the majority of a nation oppressed, it will be detrimental to change'"
"'I would like to see the elders of society filling the gap so the youth can have a strong sense of identity. I blame previous generations for the lack of this generation's knowledge. We are straddled between old and new' https://www.mmegi.bw/ampArticle/25786 Ntombi Setshwaelo: "I've learnt to centre myself" (18 June 2010)"
"I try to keep a balance, I've learned to centre myself,'"
"We are thrilled, but we still have a long way to go in providing equal opportunities to women in Botswana,""
"There is awareness, but there is lack of political will and passion,""
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.