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"The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see... the first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neetly covered over as a cat does after having been naughty."
"I don't think it's very easy to make friends with musicians. We're all a bit paranoid. It soon becomes very heavy."
"Oh father high in heaven — smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games — his women and his gun."
"In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him."
":2 And Man gave unto God a multitude of names, that he might be Lord over all the earth when it was suited to Man."
":3 And on the seven millionth day Man rested and did lean heavily on his God and saw that it was good."
":4 And Man formed Aqualung of the dust of the ground, and a host of others likened unto his kind."
":5 And these lesser men Man did cast into the void. And some were burned; and some were put apart from their kind."
":6 And Man became the God that he had created and with his miracles did rule over all the earth."
":7 But as all these things did come to pass, the Spirit that did cause man to create his God lived on within all men: even within Aqualung."
":8 And man saw it not."
":9 But for Christ's sake he'd better start looking."
"I may make you feel but I can't make you thinkYour sperm's in the gutter, your love's in the sink."
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.