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"[Opening Lines] So, it's all come down to this. Somewhere, somehow, something went wrong. My life wasn't supposed to turn out this way. I was supposed to be someone. I was supposed to make a difference. Instead, I took the easy way, the path of least resistance. Now I know how wrong that was, I can't help but wonder... "Am I too late?""
"Life was empty, meant to be endured rather than enjoyed. For years, nothing changed. I just played the role I'd been assigned, went through the motions... Then I got sick. It hit me suddenly, but hard. Every night I'd come home and puke my guts out. Every day, I'd wake up feeling just a little bit weaker. Finally, even I couldn't pretend nothing was wrong. I checked into the hospital for tests and hoped for the best. You'd think I would have known better."
"My anger bled out of me as the blackness rushed in to replace it. No sanctuary gave me comfort. Hopeless. Worthless. There was only one way out."
"The cancer growing inside would eventually kill me anyway. I accepted that, fully and completely. But that knowledge didn't depress me anymore. In fact, it liberated me, clarified everything."
"[Closing Lines] So, it's all come down to this. Somewhere, somehow, something went wrong. My life wasn't supposed to turn out this way. I was supposed to be someone. I was supposed to make a difference. And now I will... One person at a time."
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.