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"Seek in that cheek for the dimples that hide Quite from the sight; then a moment descried, Fly from your eye, half confessed, half denied."
"Then did she lift her hands unto his chin, And praised the pretty dimpling of his skin."
"She smiled, and more of pleasure than disdain Was in her dimpled chin and liberal lip."
"She had the mouth that smiles in repose. The lips met full on the centre of the bow and thinned along to a lifting dimple."
"... Adonis smiles as in disdain, That in each cheek appears a pretty dimple; Love made those hollows; if himself were slain, He might be buried in a tomb so simple; Foreknowing well, if there he came to lie, Why, there Love lived and there he could not die."
"The dimples in Her cheeks and chin Are snares which Love hath set, And I have fallen in!"
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.