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"Wir werden immer gut tun, Vorwürfe, die uns wie nur im Scherz gemacht wurden, getrost als im Ernst gemeint hinzunehmen."
"Wenn ich scherzen will, sage ich die Wahrheit. Das ist immer noch der größte Spaß auf Erden."
"Spiel und Scherz darf man üben, wie man dem Schlaf und anderen Erholungen sich hingibt: Wenn man den schweren und ernsten Pflichten Genüge getan hat."
"Scherze nie mit Leuten, wenn du siehst, dass sie gerade ernst und nachdenklich sind."
"Mit Frauen soll man sich nie unterstehn zu scherzen."
"In der Liebe wird der Ernst der Jungfrau bezaubern; in der Ehe, die selber ein langer Ernst ist, möchte leichtes Scherzen und Bescherzen der Welt besser einschlagen."
"Ein Scherz hat oft gefruchtet, wo der Ernst nur Widerstand hervorzurufen pflegte."
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.