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"Wir kennen uns nie ganz, und über Nacht sind wir andre geworden, schlechter oder besser."
"Wer die Dinge gut genug kennt, dass er allen ihren wahren Wert geben kann, redet niemals zu viel."
"Wenn Sie das Leben kennen, geben Sie mir doch bitte seine Anschrift."
"Man muß manchmal von einem Menschen fortgehen, um ihn zu finden."
"Hoch Gestellte kennen das Volk nicht und denken auch gar nicht daran, es kennen zu lernen."
"Einander kennen? Wir müßten uns die Schädeldecken aufbrechen und die Gedanken einander aus den Hirnfasern zerren."
"Den Menschen kann man nicht anders als unter Menschen und im Umgange mit ihnen kennen lernen."
"Deine Mutter kennt dich, aber du kennst nicht sie."
""Berühmtheit: der Vorzug, von jenen gekannt zu werden, die einen nicht"
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.