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"We don't even need a quota. That's another area where we don't need to imitate the West."
"This alliance should develop a new constitution, which no longer serves the autocracy."
"We have nothing to do with the violent fundamentalist Islamist cells, but we understand their motivations."
"Attempts are constantly made to integrate me into the system. Sometimes I am intimidated and sometimes lured. But as long as there are no overarching changes in this country, I cannot be a part of the political game."
"Many in the West believe Arab societies must automatically be despotic, but that is not true."
"The king has passed a law for women who go to high school, but not for average people in the countryside."
"A Muslim model of government in accordance with our ideas is very much an example of grassroots democracy."
"it's right for women to have more liberties."
"Our religion is much more capable of solving social problems than Western models that only benefit the elite."
"you solve the social problems, you also help women. Women have no problem with Islam. They have a problem with power."
"But the men, these little machos, have robbed us of that. It's their fault that the whole world believes the opposite."
"if all that matters are the rights of women -- you can call me a feminist if you like."
"The history of the women's movement in the West has unfolded completely differently from here."
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.