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"Wer im Frühling nicht sät, wird im Herbst nicht ernten."
"Eine Herbstnacht hat sieben Sonnen."
"Die Küken zählt man erst im Herbst."
"Ich werde nie zum Frühling sagen: verzeihen Sie, Sie haben dort ein welkes Blatt, oder zum Herbst: nehmen Sie es ja nicht übel, dieser Apfel ist nur zur Hälfte roth."
"Ich gehe viel spazieren, einmal einfach, weil strahlendes Wetter ist, dann auch, weil ich schon die kommenden Herbststürme vorausahne. So nütze ich wie ein Geizhals aus, was Gott mir schenkt."
"Herr: es ist Zeit. Der Sommer war sehr groß. // Leg Deinen Schatten auf die Sonnenuhren // und auf den Fluren laß die Winde los."
"Es gibt eine Stille des Herbstes bis in die Farben hinein."
"Der dunkle Herbst kehrt ein voll Frucht und Fülle, // Vergilbter Glanz von schönen Sommertagen."
"Bunt sind schon die Wälder; // Gelb die Stoppelfelder, // Und der Herbst beginnt. // Rothe Blätter fallen, // Graue Nebel wallen, // Kühler weht der Wind."
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.