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"Wenn dir ein Fels vom Herzen fällt, so fällt er auf den Fuß dir prompt! So ist es nun mal auf der Welt: ein Kummer geht, ein Kummer kommt..."
"Laß, o Welt, o laß mich sein! // Locket nicht mit Liebesgaben, // Laßt dies Herz alleine haben // Seine Wonne, seine Pein!"
"Im Durchschnitt ist man kummervoll // und weiß nicht, was man machen soll."
"Es war ein flüchtiger Blick weit zurück in das arkadische Leben, oder noch weiter zurück in das Goldene Zeitalter, bevor die Menschheit mit Sünde und Kummer beladen und das Vergnügen von jenen Schatten verdunkelt war, die es überhaupt erst plastisch und zum Glück machen."
"Die angenehme Zeit fordert uns alle auf, // traurige Gedanken und unnützen Kummer zu vergessen: // solange dieses kurze Leben dauert, // soll jeder froh sein, jeder sich verlieben."
"Der Tod einer Mutter ist der erste Kummer, den man ohne sie beweint."
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.