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"I'm also surprised that many people still know the songs, even the younger generations."
"Since [the songs] are still alive today, even with this generation, this kind of compelled me to accept this offer to do a concert and [to collaborate] with new artists."
"It feels like my career as an artist has a new purpose over there. Because I feel like once you bring the music scene to life, you also bring the Filipino community to life — you bring Filipino restaurants, businesses, beauty parlors to life… so I feel like that was my purpose living in Spain."
"I'm a hands-on mom, I take care of everything,"
""But even before I got married, there was a time when I felt like I wanted to concentrate on songwriting, there was a season like that — creating, recording."
"It's like I'm just focused on the creative side of the concert, I just want to have an excellent concert,"
"That's the hardest thing for me. I really limit the time I spend away from them,"
"mixing genres and creating moments that are totally unexpected, something fans definitely haven’t seen from me yet.""
"You have to be good friends with everyone.”"
"I think that's where I really went deep. My faith in God, it will really be tested in a good way.”"
"I'm the one who's a little soft with kids."
"Since I'm aware of that, I really try my best to be like...to put my foot down if I need to."
""I don't force them. I don't force my son."
"Only now has my fear disappeared because of your love."
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.