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"Fish and guests in three days are stale."
"Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone."
"Here's our chief guest. If he had been forgotten, It had been as a gap in our great feast."
"Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night."
"See, your guests approach: Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let's be red with mirth."
"Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table."
"Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art; If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart; If stranger, such no longer be; If foe, our love shall conquer thee."
"For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest."
"Quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes."
"Sometimes, when guests have gone, the host remembers Sweet courteous things unsaid. We two have talked our hearts out to the embers, And now go hand in hand down to the dead."
"You must come home with me and be my guest; You will give joy to me, and I will do All that is in my power to honour you."
"To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps."
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.