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"In the morning, I start with the gardening. And I've discovered I still know how to crochet"
"It's not very feminist of me but I've realised it's a pleasure and not an obligation. Today men are sewing and cooking, we can't have complexes about these things. If it's done for pleasure, it's a luxury"
"The question is whether this will continue and become normal or whether it is just temporary"
"Men already had an issue with women accessing the public space, but now they are forced to remain in a space typically reserved for women, many men are struggling to accept it"
"I am shocked that in Tunisia or elsewhere, violence against women would be an issue to be relegated to the minister of women"
"We lack the collective will to redefine the family and review our priorities"
"Citizens must take charge"
"I have experienced harassment, smear campaigns, defamation, death threats and calls for my assassination"
"We didn't see a drastic shift in public opinion on women's rights, prior to this appointment"
"allowed people to say: 'Guess what, women can be just as effective as political leaders as their male counterparts"
"There has been absolutely no addition in terms of rights secured for women"
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.