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""Dem Mimen flicht die Nachwelt keine Kränze, // Drum muß er geizen mit der Gegenwart, //"
"Denkmal: Ein Bauwerk, das der Erinnerung an etwas dient, das entweder diese Erinnerung nicht nötig hat oder nicht erinnerlich ist."
"Seltene, besonders große, herrliche Bäume und Bestände sollte man erhalten, so lange als möglich […] Vernichten wir vollends die riesigen Überbleibsel der Vorzeit, so bleibt nichts, was die Zukunft mahnen könnte an treue Befolgung ewiger Naturgesetze."
"Wie über die Menschen, so auch über die Denkmäler lässt sich die Zeit ihr Recht nicht nehmen."
"Ein Denkmal wird die Nachwelt mir errichten."
"Die Tat ist vergangen, die Denkmäler bleiben."
""Alle christlichen Konfessionen und alle europäischen Völker haben sich auf verschiedene Weise in der Misshandlung der Juden ein Denkmal der Schande gesetzt."
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.