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"I started Knock Knock with the desire to write and design at the same time and to create products that had fun yet substantive editorial content in not-necessarily-book formats. The early 2000s constituted a marketplace moment when there was very little voice-driven product; instead, newly ascendant big-box retailers were targeting a lowest common denominator."
".” Finally, I liked the idea of focusing on nurturing a creative studio where we got to make what we wanted and then foist it onto the marketplace to live or die, rather than working with clients or sticking to one widget. A studio felt creative enough for me to swallow what I imagined as the castor oil of business (I was an artiste, you know, and a liberal—I didn’t think we were meant to do business)."
"Knock Knock is known for being a pioneer in a product revolution that brought voice and point of view to the gift industry. Also, everybody knows us for putting the fun in functional with multiple choice—multiple-choice pads, cards, stickies. Why write when you could just tick a box? Putting the fun in functional definitely characterizes Knock Knock’s products—a lot of our stuff makes productivity and work fun."
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.