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"If I die, you must not mourn me, I will have died happy, I assure you"
"Don't worry about me, you have to think about the little ones who will soon be returning and who I hope will work well"
"You know that I am very much wanted here in Algiers, so it is impossible for me to do nothing. So I have finally decided that it is my duty to go to the maquis where I know I could serve as a nurse or even, if necessary, and I hope with all my heart, fight with weapons in hand. The road will of course be quite difficult to reach a maquis, but I hope that with God's help I will arrive safe and sound"
"Hassiba BEN BOUALI was part of Khechida Abdellah's group in 1956, known as "MOURAD", which worked at the Birkhadem laboratory. She transported bottles of acid for "MOURAD;Yacef Saadi"
"In a press conference by the French authorities at the time, Hasssiba is described as "a nurse, cultured, (who) began her subversive activity, like Zohra Drif, in Khechida Abdallah's group"
"Hassiba was beautiful, young and "cultured"
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.