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"Although we live by strife, We're always sorry to begin it, For what, we ask, is life Without a touch of Poetry in it?"
"Some men enjoy the constant strife Of days with work and worry rife, But that is not my dream of life: I think such men are crazy."
"Still a Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me."
"The victories of Right Are born of strife. There were no Day were there no Night, Nor, without dying, Life."
"Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife."
"Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, Than a house full of feasting with strife."
"Strife and love. Are they the workings of one mind? The features of the same face?"
"There is no advance without strife."
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.