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"Guy in a skeleton costume Comes up to the guy in the suit, Runs through him with a broadsword."
"People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends."
"When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, Don't expect him to thank or forgive you."
"Fall out of the car like a hostage from a plane"
"I am drowning There is no sign of land You are coming down with me Hand in unlovable hand"
"I hope you die I hope we both die"
"I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me."
"Ghosts and clouds and nameless things... Squint your eyes and hope real hard, maybe sprout wings."
"Woke up afraid of my own shadow. Like, genuinely afraid."
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.