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"I have no faith in thy oaths, Even if thou bringest in God as thy witness. (13)"
"I haven’t even an iota of trust in thee, For, all thy ministers and thy courtiers are liars. (14)"
"He who puts faith in thy oath on the Koran, He in the end, comes to ruin. (15)"
"When an affair is past every other remedy It is righteous, indeed to unsheath the sword. (22)"
"Hadn’t I taken thee to thy word upon the Koran, I wouldn’t have chosen the path I did. (23)"
"I knew not that thy men were crafty and deceitful like a fox. Else I wouldn’t have driven myself to this state. (24)"
"He who swears to me on the Koran Ought not to have killed or imprisoned my men. (25)"
"Now if you were to swear a hundred times on the Koran, I’d regard not thy word, not an iota of it. (49)"
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.