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"Girl... hindi ka niya hahabulin hangga't di ka umaalis. That's all. (Girl... he won't chase you until you leave.)"
"Nobody is your friend until they defend your name in your absence."
"I'm sure napaka-fulfilling na trabaho na maging ina. Pero para piliting mangyari 'yun or ma-feel na hindi ako parang binigyan ng gift na ganun? It's a blessing from the Lord talaga, nakalagay naman 'yan, children are gift from God. (I'm sure being a mother is a very fulfilling job. But to force that to happen or to feel like I wasn't given such a gift? It's really a blessing from the Lord, it's written there, children are a gift from God.)"
"Hindi naman tayo pare-parehong mga tao. Hindi tayo pare-pareho ng pinagdaanan. (We are not all the same people. We have not gone through the same experiences)."
"Ayoko nga ng sikat. Ang hirap-hirap kaya ng sikat. (I don't want to be famous. It's actually very hard to be famous)."
"Hindi naman ibibigay ni God lahat!, (God doesn't give us everything!),You can't have it all!"
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.