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"[narrating] This is the place where I was born. Some people call it the country. I call it paradise. I wouldn't wanna be anywhere else, even though we're a long way from anywhere. My friends are here. I spend every morning with them before school. They're special friends. They kind you'd do anything for. [an RC car with a video camera and a stuffed joey attached to the roof approach a mob of kangaroos under a tree; our view shows a joey in his mum's pouch with the father standing close by] Look. See that little guy? That's Joey, and those are his parents Kim and Wal. They love Joey. They're a real close family. =="
"as Billy McGregor"
"as Linda Ross"
"as Penny McGregor"
"as Ambassador Ted Ross"
"as Senator"
"as School Teacher"
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.