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"And over all, a Counterpane was plac’d, Thick sown with Furs of many a Savage Beast, Of Bears and Lions, heretofore his Spoil; And still remain’d the Trophies of his Toil."
"Mounted on panthers’ furs and lions’ manes, From rear to van they scour about the plains."
"Was there any more repellent sight than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so much more splendid than herself?"
"... If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze."
"It is really a joy to slip furs around a beautiful, luxurious woman, to see and feel how her neck, her lovely limbs snuggle against the costly soft furs, to lift the stray locks of her hair, and place them outside the collar, and when she takes off her cloak and the cosy warmth and the subtle scent of her body lingers on the tips of the sable, the effect is overpowering."
"’Twas never merry world since, of two usuries, the merriest was put down, and the worser allowed by order of law a furred gown to keep him warm; and furred with fox on lambskins too, to signify that craft, being richer than innocency, stands for the facing."
"This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, The lion and the belly-pinchèd wolf Keep their fur dry."
"Tipt with jet, Fair ermines, spotless as the snows they press; Sables, of glossy black; and dark-embrown’d, Or beauteous freakt with many a mingled hue, Thousands besides, the costly pride of courts."
"Immers’d in furs, Doze the gross race."
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.