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"“I didn’t expect na I could be so affectionate."
"It's hard to decide, 'Okay, we're here forever.' I don't think that will happen to us."
"“I think we share that spirit of wanderlust or yung wanting to explore."
"“Oh my gosh, there are so many places I want to go to (laughs)."
"But now I'm planning on starting something. I don't want to spoil it. No, it's not theater. But it's something related to music!”"
""Being a good person means being kind, of course loving. We will still make mistakes and mistakes at times, but we will always make better choices and decisions.”"
"“Our schedule is balanced. And I'm happy about that. This time, we're in the Philippines. We've already planned it."
"“‘That was the happiest gift we ever received because I felt like He Himself [gave it],”"
"“It was just fun to see all the important people in our lives there.”"
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.