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"It is time for me to visit the master, from whom all my powers stem…"
"The mystic arts of black magic are older than the memory of man! In time to come, let us peer behind the enchanted veil together!"
"I have finally reached my goal! But what inconceivable wonder awaits me now? One star … gleaming more brightly than all the rest, seem to be beckoning me! I have no choice but to follow it … and hope it will lead me to him whom I seek!"
"Every sense … every emotion I possess … is drawing me toward that shimmering light at the end of this fantastic corridor! I have reached my destination at last! But … it is no mere light! It is an actual Universe … in microcosm! A world within a world!"
"The weariness of a thousand battles sorely oppresses me! I must sleep … that I may thus regain needed strength! For who knows what phantom terrors the morrow may bring? And whatever they be, Dr. Strange must be ready to face them."
"I am displeased. It is unseemly to practice the mystic arts before the eyes of others. I must seek seclusion. There is much to think upon."
"Many things there are that mankind must not know — not until the human race stands ready to accept that which is, but can never be seen!"
"This man reaches the very bottom and then more. … You think, How much more can this guy take? He’s broken, he gets up again, he’s broken — and that’s really what makes him a superhero. A lot of people have asked me, "What makes him a superhero?" That’s really the answer I should have given. It’s not the Cloak of Levitation. It’s not the Eye of Agamotto. It’s about his staying power. It’s a marathon and not a sprint. The guy endures so much."
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.