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""Wenn sich der Himmel grau bezieht, // mich stört's nicht im geringsten. // Wer meine weiße Hose sieht, // der merkt doch: Es ist Pfingsten." – Joachim Ringelnatz, Pfingstbestellung. Aus: Gedichte dreier Jahre, Berlin (Ernst Rowohlt) 1932. S. 15"
""Um eine schöne Pfingststimmung zu bewirken, // Stellt man in den kleinen Städten Birken // Vor die Tür. [...] Aber vor allen // Dingen vergeßt // Nicht: wir feiern Pfingsten das Schützenfest." – Klabund, Kleinstadtpfingsten. Aus: Morgenrot! Klabund! Die Tage dämmern, Berlin, 1913. S. 30"
""Pfingsten // Sind die Geschenke am geringsten. // Während Geburtstag, Ostern und Weihnachten // Etwas einbrachten." – Bertolt Brecht, Ein Kinderbuch"
""Pfingsten, das liebliche Fest, war gekommen ..." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Reineke Fuchs 1.1."
""Lerne, Herz! Die kleinen Mädchen wissen // Mehr vom Glück, als du; mit ihrem Springen // Loben sie den heiligen Geist der Pfingsten" – Otto Julius Bierbaum Pfingsten"
""Daß bald das neue Jahr beginnt, // Spür ich nicht im geringsten. // Ich merke nur: Die Zeit verrinnt // Genau so wie zu Pfingsten." – Joachim Ringelnatz, Silvester. Aus: Gedichte, Allerdings, Berlin (Ernst Rowohlt) 1928. UB Bielefeld"
""Das Fest der Pfingsten kommt im Hall der Glocken." – Emanuel Geibel, Pfingsten. Aus: Gedichte, 30. Aufl., Duncker, Berlin 1853 (Erstausgabe 1840). S. 271"
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.