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"They send the heart police to put you under cardiac arrest And as they drag you through the door, they tell you that you've failed the test."
"Hello, Doctor, lift my face I wish my skin could stand the pace."
"I heard you on the wireless back in '52 Lying awake intent at tuning in on you. If I was young, it didn't stop you coming through."
"They took the credit for your second symphony. Rewritten by machine and new technology, and now I understand the problems you can see."
"Video killed the radio star."
"And now we meet in an abandoned studio. We hear the playback and it seems so long ago."
"In my mind and in my car We can't rewind, we've gone too far. Pictures came and broke your heart. Put the blame on VTR."
"Elstree, remember me? I had a part in a B-movie. I played a man from history"
"God, you know it's hard to keep the fighting clean"
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.