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"In virtue, nothing earthly could surpass her, Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar!"
"And the ripe harvest of the new-mown hay Gives it a sweet and wholesome odour."
"I cannot talk with civet in the room, A fine puss gentleman that's all perfume."
"Soft carpet-knights all scenting musk and amber."
"A woman’s perfume tells more about her than her handwriting."
"And ever since then, when the clock strikes two, She walks unbidden from room to room, And the air is filled that she passes through With a subtle, sad perfume. The delicate odor of mignonette, The ghost of a dead and gone bouquet, Is all that tells of her story—yet Could she think of a sweeter way?"
"Look not for musk in a dog's kennel."
"A stream of rich distill'd perfumes."
"Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Arabie the blest."
"An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger."
"And all Arabia breathes from yonder box."
"And all your courtly civet cats can vent Perfume to you, to me is excrement."
"So perfumed that The winds were love-sick."
"From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs."
"Hast thou not learn'd me how To make perfumes? distil? preserve? yea, so That our great king himself doth woo me oft For my confections?"
"The perfumed tincture of the roses."
"Take your paper, too, And let me have them very well perfumed, For she is sweeter than perfume itself To whom they go to."
"Perfume for a lady's chamber."
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.