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"Wer das Weinen verlernt hat, der lernt es wieder beim Untergang Dresdens. Dieser heitere Morgenstern der Jugend hat bisher der Welt geleuchtet."
"In Dresden ist der Anti-Hitler-Krieg zu dem entartet, was man zu bekämpfen vorgab und auch wohl bekämpft hatte: Zu Barbarei und Unmenschlichkeit, für die es keine Rechtfertigung gibt."
"Ein wahres Krähwinkel ist Dresden in musikalischer Beziehung und für den Künstler eine elende Existenz."
"Dresden heißt die Kunst zu leben."
"Die jungen Deutschen, denen ich in Göttingen, Dresden, Königsberg usw. begegnete, sind unter dem Einfluss so genannter philosophischer Richtungen herangewachsen, die man eigentlich als dunkle, schlecht geschriebene Dichtung ansehen muss, aber in sittlichem Betracht etwas Außerordentliches, erhaben Reines haben. Ich bekam den Eindruck, dass sie sich nicht die republikanische Gesinnung des Mittelalters, nicht das Misstrauen und die Bereitschaft zum Dolchstoß wie die Italiener bewahrt haben, sondern eine starke Anlage von Begeisterungsfähigkeit und Gewissenhaftigkeit."
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.