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"Bhojpuri is the practical langauage of an energetic race which is ever ready to accommodate itself to circumstances, and which has made its Influence felt all over India."
"The Bengali and the Bhojpuri are two of the great civilisers of Hindostan, the former with his pen and the latter with his Cudgel."
"The Bhojpuri speaking country is inhabited by a people curiously different from others who speak Bihari langauages. They form a fighting nation of Hindostan. An alert and active nationality with few scruples and considerable abilities. Dearly loving, a fight for fighting's sake, they have spread all over Aryan India, each man ready to carve his fortune out of any opportunity which may present itself to him."
"Bhojpuri has not only stayed alive, in the whole world, and I am saying this in the most considered way, in the whole world Bhojpuri is the most rapidly developing language. It has music, cinema, philosophy. In the oral tradition of Bhojpuri, there is so much wisdom. Bhojpuri people are enterprising and the Bhojpuri language is even getting them employment these days."
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.