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"I just looked at her with this sadness...And she said, go. Just go. Go, go, go,"
"It was just incredible...I felt whole"
"There's just so much that one person can take""
"I started making phone calls...I started calling Mogadishu, the airport" ([16:30])"
"We all cried and jumped for joy""
"I realized in no place else in the world would a story like this with an ending like that be possible other than the United States of America, the greatest nation in the world,"
"I've always felt like this was my country. Please don't send me back." ([02:45])"
""I felt like the love of my life had just broken my heart." ([16:50])"
""The country that I love so much restored my faith and gave my sister a second chance." ([17:05])"
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.