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"'"[S]o schön, so fließend, so lyrisch belebt und technisch fantastisch wie Wunderlich singen konnte, […] so schön glaube ich später keinen Tenor mehr gehört zu haben.""
"Ich finde, es ist zu viel Irak und zu wenig Streichquartett im Feuilleton. Die Redakteure müssen doch von ihren Gegenständen auch etwas verstehen."
"Damals war das Feuilleton ein netter Herrenclub. […] Wir gingen nicht in die Kantine, sondern irgendwo gut mittagessen und eine Kleinigkeit Rotwein trinken. […] Ich stieg in den besten Hotels ab, fuhr selbstverständlich nur erster Klasse und dachte mir gar nichts dabei."
"Am glĂĽcklichsten bin ich, wenn ich widerlegt werde."
"Alles Misslingen hat seine GrĂĽnde, aber alles Gelingen sein Geheimnis."
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.