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"Tee erleuchtet den Verstand, schärft die Sinne, verleiht Leichtigkeit und Energie, und vertreibt Langeweile und Verdruss."
"Man trinkt Tee, damit man den Lärm der Welt vergisst."
"Hoffnung ist wie der Zucker im Tee: Auch wenn sie klein ist, versüßt sie alles."
"Eine Freundschaft ist wie eine Tasse Tee. Sie muss klar und durchscheinend sein, und man muss auf den Grund schauen können."
"Ein heißes Bad erfrischt den Körper, ein heißer Tee den Geist."
"Bitterer Tee, mit Wohlwollen dargeboten, schmeckt süßer als Tee, den man mit saurer Miene reicht."
"Abwarten und Tee trinken."
"So kann die schlichte Tasse Tee zum Gefährt der Annäherung an etwas Großes werden, zum Medium einer vita contemplativa activa."
"Sex? Eine Tasse Tee ist mir lieber."
"Die Göttin hat mir Thee gekocht // Und Rum hineingegossen; // Sie selber aber hat den Rum // Ganz ohne Thee genossen."
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.