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"Now Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, put himself forward and said, âI will be king.â So he got chariots and horses ready, with fifty men to run ahead of him. (His father had never rebuked him by asking, âWhy do you behave as you do?â He was also very handsome and was born next after Absalom.)"
"Then Solomon was told, âAdonijah is afraid of King Solomon and is clinging to the horns of the altar. He says, âLet King Solomon swear to me today that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.ââ"
"King Solomon answered his mother, âWhy do you request Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? You might as well request the kingdom for himâafter all, he is my older brotherâyes, for him and for Abiathar the priest and Joab son of Zeruiah!â"
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.