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"Well, I think what I've tried to do here and what’s worked so well for me is ‘do unto others as you’d have them do unto you.’"
"I'm so very proud of the young people that are out there leading these demonstrations, and it's peaceful protest and proud that they're doing that on their own volition."
"But we have these young people from all walks of life, all backgrounds, all religions, all colors, everything which is absolutely amazing. But they're fighting for the same basic civil rights that we fought for back in the sixties. That's just seems unfair— to have to fight for the same thing all these many years later. But that's what we have to do. And I'm proud of them for doing it, and we're still participating."
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.