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"This could be the very minute I'm aware I'm alive All these places feel like home"
"Light up, light up As if you have a choice Even if you cannot hear my voice I'll be right beside you dear"
"Please keep your hands down And stop raising your voice It's hardly what I'd be doing if you gave me a choice It's a simple suggestion an you give me some time So just say yes or no Why can't you shoulder the blame? 'Cause both my shoulders are heavy From the weight of us both You're a big boy now so let's not talk about growth You've not heard a single word I have said Oh my god"
"Is it too late to remind you how we were But not our last days of silent, screaming, blur Most of what I remember makes me sure I should have stopped you from walking out the door"
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.