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"In short, she was growing pretty.And the shock so stunned and thrilled herThat she becameAlmost immediatelyIncurably insane."
"I know you prefer 'ab-duc-tion', but the proper word is 'rape'. It's short and businesslike."
"A group of living statues.What do they call it? A tableauHmm.I wonder if they can hold it.They'll try to, I suppose.And yet it won't be easyTo hold such a pretty pose."
"There is a curious paradoxThat no one can explain.Who understands the secretOf the reaping of the grain?Who understands why Spring is bornOut of Winter's laboring pain?Or why we all must die a bitBefore we grow again."
"Please, God, please - Don't let me be normal!"
"I'm going to take my clothes off and go swimming in a stream!"
"When the dance was done,When I went my way,When I tried to find rainbows far away,All the lovely lights seemed to fadeFrom view:They were you."
"I'm grown-up, stable,Willing to conform.I'm beyond such foolish notions.And yet—in spite of my knowledge—There is this girl."
"I was once in the navy. That's where I learned Horticulture."
"Son, you're an ass."
"Watch this."Friends, Romans, Countrymen...Screw your courage to the sticking place!And be not sick and pale with griefThat thou, her handmaidens,Should be far more fairThan she...Is...""
"Try to Remember, The Brothers Four (youtube)"
"Try To Remember, Harry Belafonte (youtube)"
"Wikipedia article Try to Remember"
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.