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"Sol Robeson: This is insanity, Max. Max Cohen: Or maybe it's genius! I have to get that number. Sol Robeson: Hold on! You have to slow down. You're losing it. You have to take a breath. Listen to yourself. You're connecting a computer bug I had with a computer bug you might have had and some religious hogwash. If you want to find the number 216 in the world, you will be able to find it everywhere: 216 steps from your street corner to your front door, 216 seconds you spend riding in the elevator. When your mind becomes obsessed with anything, you will filter everything else out and find that thing everywhere: 320, 450, 22, whatever. You've chosen 216, and you will find it everywhere in nature. But Max, as soon as you discard scientific rigor, you are no longer a mathematician—you're a numerologist."
"Let's take some extra time to talk about one: Only the number one can create all numbers with this simple equation, 111111111 Ă— 111111111 = 12345678987654321. One, expressed nine times, multiplied by itself, produces all subsequent numbers progressively and then inversely."
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.