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"Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.”"
"Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.”"
"Most people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamppost; more for support than illumination”"
"This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.”"
"There was only this one lamp-post. Behind was the great scoop of darkness, as if all the night were there."
"It's so important, so comforting, to have lampposts in this world who can light the way."
"Like a person in a storm desperately grasping at a lamppost, he clung to his daily routine."
"Lampposts look in the glow of their defeated light robbed by the fog but cannot tell if the streets lying by stretching limbs in courtyards are sleeping face downwards or supine."
"All the friends that I've ever known are the street lamps I follow home"
"There go the street lights bringin on the night Here come the men faces hidden from the light"
"Stars below instead of above! I wanted to see them straight away. I prayed for a miracle, for the sun to set."
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.