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""Man nennt das Christenthum die Religion des Mitleidens."
"Ich weigere mich, es [das Filmemachen] als Industrieprodukt zu sehen. Wenn ich das tue, wenn ich dauernd mit dem Aspekt im Hinterkopf arbeite: 'Wieviele Zuschauer kann ich erreichen?', dann werde ich nichts Vernünftiges zusammenbringen, also für die Art von Film, die ich meine."
"Eine waghalsige Unternehmung, aus Gründen des Forschungsdranges oder des Übermuts, mit lebensbedrohlichen Aspekten, unberechenbaren Gefahren und manchmal fatalem Ausgang."
"Der wohl hervorstechendste und auch erschreckendste Aspekt der deutschen Realitätsflucht liegt in der Haltung, mit Tatsachen so umzugehen, als handele es sich um bloße Meinungen."
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.