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April 10, 2026
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"I would like to say a few words about weddings. I've just been through one. Not my own. My daughter's. Someday in the far future I may be able to remember it with tender indulgence, but not now. I always used to think that marriages were a simple affair. Boy meets girl. Fall in love. They get married. Have babies. Eventually the babies grow up and meet other babies. They fall in love. Get married. Have babies. And so on and on and on. Looked at that way, it's not only simple, it's downright monotonous. But I was wrong. I figured without the wedding."
"Right then I knew we'd lost her. She'll always love us of course, but not in the old way. From now on her love will be handed out like a farmer's wife tossing scraps to the family rooster."
"The Bride gets the THRILLS! Father gets the BILLS!"
"Spencer Tracy — Stanley T. Banks"
"Joan Bennett — Ellie Banks"
"Elizabeth Taylor — Kay Dunstan"
"Don Taylor — Buckley Dunstan"
"Billie Burke — Doris Dunstan"
"Moroni Olsen — Herbert Dunstan"
"Marietta Canty — Delilah"
"Russ Tamblyn — Tommy Banks"
"Tom Irish — Ben Banks"
"Paul Harvey — Reverend Galsworthy"
"Leo G. Carroll — Mr. Massoula"
"Ellie (wife)"
"Kay (daughter)"
"Buckley Dunstan (son-in-law)"
"Tommy (son)"
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.