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"It’s not about making something perfect it’s about letting everyone have ownership of their place in the process."
"You learn to live with it. There are moments when it comes back and it floods you. You’re overwhelmed by it and you can’t function then there are moments where you can actually live."
"it’s okay to completely fall apart and be nonfunctional but you won’t die from grief, if you don’t want to. If it’s painful and you can’t function it’s probably the speed you need to be at, in that moment; you’re at the right place."
"Don’t be afraid to go through those hard moments to resolve things or be forced to have all of those unresolved issues with people. Be honest, kind and brave with the people you love because you don’t know how long you’re going to have them."
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.