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"“It was only after the train left that we realized it was gone,”"
"Grateful to have INDEPENDENCE DAY as a Family tradition. The thing with tradition, it seems the same old thing but not. I love how today is not rushed and savored every moment from being greeted by Tatay Ver to seeing our Aguinaldo cousins (Chirpy and Sarah Datiles, Kuya Jay and Ate Ems Abaya). Having our photo with Barbers (husband's Barber whose Lolo is also the barber of Lolo Miong!!!) I miss Papa Boon most especially as I went to the Kitchen outdoor area,"
"And my wife and I. Just grateful to be beside him today. It's simple,"
"We went to World Bex - a favorite of his, heard mass with Uni and cooked corned beef for husband,"
"It was really fast. It's like there was no courtship... I can't explain that connection, it's like I've known him for a long time when we talked."
"I'm still grateful to all the people I've been with in the past. I personally have nothing to be sorry for."
"“Both the hurtful, with the happy and the sad moments. That helps our character."
"And everything you've been through, I feel like it's contributed to who you are."
"Honestly, I don't feel like I've ever had any enemies. In fact, when I see them, I still have full respect for them."
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.