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"Growing up, I had my life mapped out. I knew what I wanted to do, and when I wanted to do it, and when I wanted to get married. I pretty much had it all"
"So when it was ended abruptly, or it took a turn, obviously there are times when I wonder how it would have been if it had not worked out this way"
"We get along, but what is a friend? We get along. We are very diplomatic towards one another."
"You have your privileges, and then sometimes you realize that you have so many restrictions on your life that you can not really do whatever it is you want to do at any time"
"I am as happy as I can be under the circumstances"
"It bothers me, that is why I decided to do something about it. But I do not feel guilty, because I believe I work, I work very hard"
"I have not started practicing. I intend to. I intend to put my knowledge to use, somehow, even if I do not have to go and stand up in court"
"Because when people do not understand you, sometimes they choose to dislike you"
"But that is not a problem for me, because I always focus on my objectives. And whatever else is happening around me is of less importance than what it is that I am trying to achieve"
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.