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"Meanwhile, Italy cannot afford the truth about Regeni. And after two months of lies it is more correct and less hypocritical to take note of it.""
"I will go to vote and I will vote for Italia dei Valori. At a time when Silvio Berlusconi and Marcello Dell'Utri come out into the open and, in order to have a majority in the Senate, do not hesitate to praise the silence of the boss Vittorio Mangano, I think it is necessary to give strength to those who clearly say no to the mafia. [...] I therefore invite everyone to think about what happened between 2001 and 2006 when our country took great steps towards the regime with the secret services spying on journalists and magistrates, with the purges and censorships in Rai , with the major international press ridiculing Italy and its executive every day. There is not a single reason to think that next time it will be different. Berlusconi, moreover, has been clear in recent weeks: he wants to reintroduce parliamentary immunity, ban telephone wiretapping, and put his hands on public television again and more thoroughly. I think avoiding all this is a precise duty of those who care about freedom."
"In the UK, it is not parliament that supervises the BBC, but it is the BBC that supervises the activities of parliamentarians and their collaborators."
"Licio Gelli: In this country there is only one charismatic figure who can truly lead it: Silvio Berlusconi."
"Gomez: But in the meantime we know how these things go: he will end up being acquitted."
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.