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"Gehe hin zur Ameise, du Fauler; siehe ihre Weise an und lerne! Ob sie wohl keinen Fürsten noch Hauptmann noch Herrn hat, bereitet sie doch ihr Brot im Sommer und sammelt ihre Speise in der Ernte."
"Wir Menschen sind keine Ameisen oder Graugänse, die ihrer genetischen Bestimmung folgen. Wir können denken und wählen und über unsere Geschichte nachdenken."
"Noch immer leben wir niedrig wie Ameisen, obgleich die Sage erzählt, wir seien schon vor langer Zeit in Menschen verwandelt worden."
"Ein Fisch, so groß, dass er ein Schiff verschlingen kann, ist auf dem Trockenen nicht einmal den Ameisen gewachsen."
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.