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"Gewöhnlich schlage ich Vertretern ausländischer Staaten folgende konstruktive Idee vor: Nehmen Sie 100.000 bulgarische Zigeuner und integrieren Sie sie in Österreich."
"Die Harfe ist ein ganzes Orchester, wenn man ihr großes Potenzial verwenden kann."
"Warum sind nicht mehr Leute aus Trotz gut?"
"Die Vorstellung, daß einem das Leben geschenkt worden ist, erscheint mir ungeheuerlich."
"Die Tage werden unterschieden, aber die Nacht hat einen einzigen Namen."
"Die Sattheit des Siegers, seine Überfressenheit, Zufriedenheit, sein langes Verdauungsbehagen. Manches sollte man nicht sein, aber das Einzige, was man nie sein darf, ist ein Sieger. Aber man ist es, über jeden Menschen, den man gut kennt und überlebt. Siegen ist Überle-ben. Wie soll man es machen: weiter leben und doch nicht Sieger sein? – Die moralische Quadratur des Zirkels."
"Beamte werden Gewitter machen wie Jupiter."
"Alles, was man vergessen hat, schreit im Traum um Hilfe."
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.