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"We are all selfish. Good actor too. We should get an Oscar for this. Because dead actors are traded in the media. Sometimes false news is also published. Which should not be at all."
"None of us will live our whole lives. One day I will die too. Various stories will be made about me in the media. News will be made about that story. I will not exist after death. I will be on the other side. I can't even protest. So I want to come live and tell the truth while I'm still alive."
"Himu wanted to act in one of my movies. He would almost call and say, I will manage the producer. You prepare the story. I am used to such proposals, so it is my habit to listen in one ear and get out the other. Both of them are self-indulgent so no one else remembers. Years passed."
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.