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"When you kill wolves people die."
"What shall we do after we learn what we'll do: that is the question."
"Europe is shrinking, but America is broadening."
"The bigger the house, the smaller the occupants."
"Polluters of void."
""Women don't survive here," a woman of eighty said."
"...nothing else left but to watch eternity breaking up into human splinters."
"The century has started with the crime of the century."
"Leviathan learning to overcome time"
"The knack of living — how skilfully it kills!"
"...letters of a burning book dance in flame not every time and not every time literally."
"Once a century the world is divided into before and after."
"'Sorry, we gave you a wrong life,' they said not too apologetically. 'Will you begin anew?'"
"Caliban fights the Taliban"
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.