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"Weiche dem Unheil nicht, doch geh ihm mutiger entgegen!"
"Stets launenhaft und wankelmütig ist die Frau."
"Musen Siziliens, laßt uns ein wenig Erhabneres singen!"
"Mantua hat mich gezeugt, Kalabrien raffte mich dahin, nun birgt mich // Parthenope; ich besang Hirten, Landbau und Helden."
"[Jupiter] nickte und der ganze Olymp erbebte."
"Im Frühling kehrt die Wärme in die Knochen zurück."
"Die einzige Rettung für die Besiegten [ist] keine Rettung zu erhoffen."
"Ich fürchte die Danaer (Griechen), auch wenn sie Geschenke bringen."
"Gott freut sich der ungeraden Zahlen."
"Fangen wir mit der Hauptsache an."
"Entstehen möge ein Rächer aus unserm Gebein."
"Es lieben die Musen den Wechsel."
"Die Liebe besiegt alles."
"Der Geist bewegt die Materie."
"Dem Wagemutigen hilft das Glück!"
"Das Schicksal findet seinen Weg."
"Fürchte die Danaer (Griechen), selbst wenn sie Geschenke bringen."
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.