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""I was used as a high profile person to get some opinions and views across – but I have nothing against homosexual people or transgender people"."
"“I wasn’t one who looked for it, I didn’t know I was getting it, I was very honoured when I was told I was"
""This was for my tennis and I think it was a long time coming and I’m very honoured … We did nothing but play for our nation"."
""I’ve admired her as a player … But I don’t think she has ever admired me"."
"Everything we have in life is a choice. That’s the freedom God gave us. That’s their choice. I don’t hate them for their choice"
"I think a lot of it is because of being a minister and making a stand for my beliefs. I have had a lot of bullying. But we should be able to say what we believe. I’ve got nothing against anybody"
"With tennis, they say it's a social sport you can play from six to 60 - they should say 90, your friendships go on forever."
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.