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"He got in loud fights with Baba all the time. I don’t remember words. Words are never important in arguments, only how loud we shout them."
"Justice is the motive of heartless people, who protect their gold with the sword."
"I will not argue with you a moment more, said Adel. I am tired of the past, and there is so much to do in the present."
"Men gain their thrones by selling their daughters, or sending their sons to die."
"You will never understand freedom. You and your son will never understand true freedom. You think freedom is the throne of the world, where no one can alter your words, and no one can tell you what to do, and men live or die by the slight twitch of your eyebrow. That isn’t freedom. That is a life of fear."
"She shivered and turned away. These things I have seen in my life, she said. Someday a gentle God will grant me ignorance. Do you worship gods? I said, still watching the golem burn. Not lately, said Korinyes."
"She smiled. Everyone is greedy, she said. Even people who have all the money and power in the universe want more to protect what they already have."
"I told them many things, she said, if you knew what was good for you, you wouldn’t truly believe anything I say without proof."
"They looked up and Prince Tsui introduced himself and they didn’t care. Their stomachs were empty."
"We will not be giving ourselves up. Death, then? said Seth. Victory, said Prince Tsui. Call it what you like, Seth replied, the end is the same."
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.