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"Everything old is new again meaning: "you can't do anything unique, because it's been done before" or "the material you just discovered and loved has been around for ages""
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it meaning: If something is working adequately well, leave it alone"
"Live and let live meaning: a person should live as he or she chooses and let other people do the same"
"Screw the pooch -"
"The cat's out of the bag meaning: The secret has been given away"
"The pot calling the kettle black -"
"The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing meaning: the people in one part of an organization do not know what the people in another part are doing and this is causing confusion or difficulties"
"Water under the bridge meaning: Something happened in the past and is no longer important or worth arguing about"
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.