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"Kaum war Jesus getauft und aus dem Wasser gestiegen, da öffnete sich der Himmel, und er sah den Geist Gottes wie eine Taube auf sich herabkommen. Und eine Stimme aus dem Himmel sprach: Das ist mein geliebter Sohn, an dem ich Gefallen gefunden habe."
"Besser ein Spatz in der Hand, als eine Taube auf dem Dach."
"Aus einem Adler wird keine Taube."
""Sie müssen sich diesen Beruf so vorstellen: Sie sitzen auf einer Bank im Park und vergiften, wie üblich, die Tauben, da setzt sich eine junge Frau mit ihrem Kind neben Sie. Und Sie sagen: Junge Frau, so ein extrem hässliches Kind wie Ihres habe ich noch nie gesehen!"
"Gedanken, die mit Taubenfüßen kommen, lenken die Welt."
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.