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"At the bosom of the heaven, The woe keeps on spinning the wheel. The Milestone accompanies for hours, But the journey doesn’t end anywhere. The night is ready to meet the dawn, But my distance is not yet over. My children’s misfortunes Have stained my clothes, And the aloneness continues to lick my blood. The straws I gather from the ridge of the suburb, The Sun transforms them into the woes. It’s the eyes, that caused my dreams to burn, I remain under the sneaky watch of my own coffin."
"An Iliad of woes."
"Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair."
"When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave."
"And woe succeeds to woe."
"Long exercised in woes."
"Woe unto you,… for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin."
"So perish all whose breast ne'er learned to glow For other's good or melt at other's woe."
"I was not always a man of woe."
"O, woe is me, T'have seen what I have seen, see what I see!"
"One woe doth tread upon another's heel So fast they follow."
"All these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our time to come."
"Woes, cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel."
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.