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"I walked past my school again, it was on rue Saint Jacques, and I cried a little bit, that's where I grew up. It's very funny because it was in Paris that I learned to love my country, which is Algeria, and Egypt, and music, and the Arab world."
"You have killed thousands of Libyans and you continue to mow-down a large number of innocent people in Syria...You swear you didn't bear weapons, but I assure you that you have the most powerful weapon of mass destruction: the media. If you misuse the media, you will kill the son of Arabism.""
"Such a big loss to the Arab World, I'm truly so sad about the death of the great artist and the legend Warda. May her soul rest in peace!"
"A voice that inspired and joined whole generations."
"He told me that I was a legend and an idol for him, it touched me deeply."
"No, I didn't have time to take photos, I had young children, all that..."
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.