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"When talking about what his Father was doing at the age of 23 I said to him last year, or the year before, ‘Yeah, well…something…something.’ You know, I’d done my degree and I was like ‘You know, well, I’ve got a degree…you know, I’m this age.’ and he, he, laughed and he was just like ‘What was I doing when I was 23?’ and I said, ‘Dunno’ and he was like, ‘What was I doing?...Oh yeah, Sgt. Pepper.’ and I was just instantly just like oh."
"That’s a nice little flip camera you got there? They’re good those."
"I wrote that; I ran right outside I hopped inside a cab. I went out the other door. You know like the Beatles, when they go in one side and then get out the other side and everyone thinks they’re in the cab and they’re not. And this Englishman said fab. That was Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream, you know the one. If you’re a musician, people expect your music to be free. It’s like is all plumbing free? Is all electricity free? Is all dentistry free? No."
"How many falling stars does it take to wake a nation? And trample through your head and lay your mind out on the pavement Confusing and consuming all in all it complicates me."
"Another John Doe and we all become the same yeah Another John Doe and a another face to blame yeah"
"I don't deny-a what I'm seeing You vilified all our kind You criticize people's weakness When all the time it's just your lies"
"But no matter what they say, You can make it all right You can do it alone now Do it your way Yeah"
"The world continues to dissolve It’s sad how we just keep devolving And the smaller it all goes All the stranger it’s becoming"
"They choose what you’re watching and you don’t mind They choose what you’re watching ‘cause they’re so kind They choose what you’re watching and you don’t mind Dunno what you’re watching and you don’t mind"
"The way you’re perceived is regal On the televisions by the people You don’t fool us: we know you’re evil And your face should be illegal"
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.