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"Protector of women"
"A woman should marry once in her lifetime unless she wants children which her present husband fails to provide"
"Women should marry but we should not make our husbands little gods; we pet them too much and they are like little children"
"Woman’s other name is suffering *Page 13."
"Mgbada’s father was upset by this new religion. He protested thus: ‘What kind of religion preached that one should abandon the worship of one’s ancestors…’ So, before he died, he charged Mgbada: ‘Whatever you do, whatever you become, don’t forget the worship of our ancestors…’"
"Pages 6-7."
"When the gods give us craw-craw, they also give us nails with which to scratch"
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.