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"You see eh, when we old people tell you children to listen to your parents, you say this is a new age."
"Gortokai, you have done so much for my old parents, we owe it to you to give you a wife. If I had a husband with money."
"....times are changing. It’s hard to depend on people these days."
"I can see why Gotorkai has been killing himself to make enough money to pay your dowry."
"You think I have just been eating rice for nothing eh? I am an old kuba, Kema."
"If you are a professional palm wine drinker, that is, a habitude, or a connoisseur, the most sensible thing to do when you arrive in a strange town is to associate yourself with a palm wine circle. By so doing you get to know all the current gossip of that town."
"My advice to you as a friend is, never contemplate such a major undertaking without it being looked into."
"Gortokai, when you have reached my age, you will agree that good rum, delicious food and some money, not too much, to keep you worrying, are to be desired more than a beautiful unfaithful woman."
"Many men before us have been through it, and those who will come after us too, will go through it. It’s one of those evils God put on earth. You know now what I mean when I say the secrets of a woman are deeper than the bottom of hell."
"Some people who pretend to be your friends are the very ones who help to spoil your palava."
"I feel that a girl should be given a chance to look around before she decides on one man."
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.