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"For me personally, I went through a lot of stuff as a kid, so I had to mature pretty quickly, but it’s an ambiguous term. I know people who are still children, and I think it’s awesome. I’m all for staying a kid, just because you get older doesn’t mean you have to lose innocence and the way you look at life, it just means you have to do taxes as well as have that imagination. I feel no one should lose that just because they turn 18 or turn 21. You should always pursue your dreams, regardless of your age. I feel like ‘coming of age’ refers more to going to school and picking a job, but people force pressure on themselves. You might have your parents telling you what to do, but at the end of the day it’s your choice."
"Gabriel is an amazing kid. To play someone who is a dolt, you have to be smart."
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.