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"Thinking about death’s a funny thing. Stupid. Like wondering where you were before you were born."
"There’s always a moment of transition for you, that one moment when you turn from outsider to in, when you leave your past behind and suddenly mesh with the new life you’ve joined."
"Human society begins with what nature makes male and female mammals want from each other."
"Well, that happens in fairy tales, doesn’t it? In real life, when a manager fucks up and ruins a million working people’s lives, when he bungles so badly the company loses a decade’s profits, his Christmas bonus turns up a little short. That’s all."
"Risk meaningless death at the hands of a soulless corporate entity? Hmmm. How much are they paying?"
"A woman’s laughter can charm a man out of his senses."
"Seduction’s so easy when its target has the same object in mind."
"War, they say, is just business conducted through other means."
"That’s all I remember, really. We fly around. I shoot the guns. The explosions are pretty. People die. What the hell are they fighting for? Freedom? What the hell is that? You’re born out of nothing. You live for a while. You die. You go back to nothing. What kind of fool dies for a word? A better class of fool than the one who dies for a paycheck? Don’t know."
"Idle relics of the past. Things that let us imagine we’ve lived, when nothing else remains."
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.