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"BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen."
"Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored."
"The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves."
"…had that worst bump developed that can adorn the head of a bore—viz., long-story-tellativeness."
"Got the ill name of augurs, because they were bores."
"L'ennui naquit un jour de l'uniformité."
"That old hereditary bore, The steward."
"Again I hear that creaking step!— He's rapping at the door! Too well I know the boding sound That ushers in a bore."
"He says a thousand pleasant things,— But never says "Adieu.""
"O, he's as tedious As is a tir'd horse, a railing wife; Worse than a smoky house; I had rather live With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me, In any summer-house in Christendom."
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.