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"Wrestlers have a term for the official story told to the audience, the fiction the performers maintain for the benefit of the show: kayfabe. While kayfabe was once a strict , nowadays just about everyone knows that wrestling is staged. Yet even today, because it is essential to the performance, wrestlers rarely break kayfabe and betray the fiction in the ring. Nevertheless, breaking kayfabe is more common than it once was, in part because performers can break kayfabe to advance their strategic goals in and out of the ring. It is the same with judicial opinions. Judges adhere to a analogous to kayfabe when they refuse to explain the Court's behavior by reference to changes in the Court's composition. Judicial kayfabe demands that opinions explain the Court's behavior according to legal rules and principles, even when criticizing it. This norm leads to some unusually artficial opinions that seem oblivious to the political forces that influence and constitute the Court's membership."
"... kayfabe ... the system is lying in order for the system to continue."
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.