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"I've been the world over, north, south, east and west, But the middle of nowhere, where I likes it best. Where it's wave over wave, sea over bow, I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow."
"I've sailed the world over for decades or more And oft' times I wonder what I do it for. I don't know the answer. It's pleasure and pain, But with life to live over I'd do it again"
"Well, a process man am I and I am telling you no lie I work and breathe among the fumes that trail across the sky There's thunder all around me and there's poison in the air There's a lousy smell that smacks of hell and dust all in me hair"
"There's overtime and bonus opportunities galore. The young men like their money and they all come back for more, but soon your knocking on and you look older than you should For every bob made on the job, you pay it with flesh and blood."
"And every day you're in this place you're two days nearer death."
"And the old black rum's got a hold on me Like a dog wrapped 'round my leg And the old black rum's got a hold on me Will I live for another day?"
"So I drank all of my money and I slept out in the rain Every day is different, but the nights they're all the same You never see the sun on the old black rum, But I know I'm gonna do it again."
"When you're in love, there's no time and no space. There's a permanent smile on your face"
"Well, I came into a scolding wife a few short years ago And ever since I lead a life of misery and woe My wife she is a tyrant around the room and in Ah, she'd sell me to the devil for a glass or two of gin."
"And if the devil will take her, I'd thank him for his pain. I swear to God I'll hang me self if I get married again."
"Got to leave it all behind you. Give the sun a chance to find you. Let it go."
"Hey man, you don't know what you're missing. You count your curses and forget about the blessings. Don't you think you should learn a little lessson?"
"But every mountain has it's faces that'd make you want to stop On this so unwelcome journey from the bottom to the top."
"And there's one more thing I've come to know for sure. There's no bitterness that smolders, no chip on any shoulder that a random act of kindness couldn't cure."
"Just like the final movie scene, the prince will find his perfect queen. The hero always saves the world. The villains get what they deserve. The boy will always get the girl when I am king."
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.