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"Kind des Pfarrers, aber Enkel des Teufels."
""Groß wird erst der Ruhm gepriesen, der die Enkel überlebt." – Johann Elias Schlegel, „Briefe und vermischte Gedichte.“ „Die mühsame Weisheit.“ Aus: Johann Heinrich Schlegel (Hrsg.): Johann Elias Schlegels Werke. 5 Bände, Kopenhagen und Leipzig 1761-1771. 4. Theil. S. 134f. google books"
"Es erben sich Gesetz und Rechte // Wie eine ewge Krankheit fort; // Sie schleppen von Geschlecht sich zu Geschlechte // Und rücken sacht von Ort zu Ort. // Vernunft wird Unsinn, Wohltat Plage; // Weh dir, dass du ein Enkel bist! // Vom Rechte, das mit uns geboren ist, // Von dem ist, leider! // Nie die Frage."
"Alles zerfällt im Augenblick, wenn man nicht ein Dasein erschaffen hat, das über dem Sarge noch fortdauert. Um wen bei seinem Alter Söhne, Enkel und Urenkel stehen, der wird oft tausend Jahre alt."
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.