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"If I want God to answer me, I have to forgive and let go of so many things."
"You cannot be the judge in your own case but the records are there."
"Someone must be bold enough to challenge the status quo."
"If God says this is the place I am taking you to, people may try; people may do whatever they feel they can, if they succeed in doing anything, you cannot blame them."
"In life, you can never choose for God; you can’t say that this is what I am going to be."
"You cannot stop people from saying whatever they want to say; everybody is entitled to their own opinion."
"There is no way you can quickly say bye bye to politics, most especially if you are born into politics."
"No, once you are in politics, you are there, you don’t quit. There is no way you can quickly say bye bye to politics, most especially if you are born into politics. It is very hard for a politician to quit politics; you will have your followers and supporters."
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.