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"[first lines] Over the past hundred years, a succession of relentless wars and widespread environmental destruction had awakened deadly monsters. At last, instead of killing each other, mankind had come together to combat the monsters. The Earth Defense Forces were born. At the same time, mutant humans with remarkable physical abilities were being discovered all over the world. The Earth Defense Forces recruited these mutant humans and formed them into a special unit. Their name: The M Organization. Their mission was to destroy the number one enemy, the King of Monsters that appeared in 1954, and has since regularly threatened man's very existence on this planet. Its name is.... [Godzilla roars]"
"Canadian Child: [playing with his monster toys and throws a plush Gamera into the fireplace] "You loser!" [sees Anguirus on TV] Woah, that's a real life Angilas! [his toy resembles the real Anguirus; shocked, and went to the other room] Mommy?! MOMMY!!!"
"The fifty-year history comes to an END."
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.