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"Alam niyo naman lahat siguro ang tagal ko sa industriya. Nakasama ko na yata ang lahat ng dapat na makasama. Nagsimula din ako nung bata, nung dalaga, nagkaasawa, nagkaanak. Ang importante siguro sa isang tao kahit na wala sa industriya namin, importante na may kinakausap ka, na meron kang pwedeng lapitan, meron kang kaibigan, may pamilya ka. Huwag kang mapag-isa. Kasi ang demonyo, ang kalaban lagi, ang utak mo ay battleground. Kaya dapat talaga hindi ka nag-iisa na gagamitin ng kalaban niyo. Kasi anu-ano ang iisipin mo talaga pagka nag-iisa ka, wala kang nakakausap. Importante talaga na may mga– yung community. (You all probably know how long I've been in the industry. I've been with everyone I should be with. I started out as a kid, as a young woman, got married, had children. What's important for someone, even if they're not in our industry, is that you talk to someone, that you have someone you can approach, that you have friends, that you have family. Don't be alone. Because the devil, the enemy is always there, your mind is a battleground. So you really shouldn't be alone for your enemy to use. Because what you are really going to think about when you're alone, with no one to talk to. It's really important to have a community.)"
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.