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""Mi zarak beitza ze?! Huliganim! Hayot"!{Who threw egg this?! Hulligans! Animals"!} The teacher Leonid is screaming in hebraw, a languege he's not so goot at, to find who's blame."
""Ma ze?? Tze mikan, retze'akh. Ata lo mitbayesh im isha begili?{"What is this?? Get out of here, murderer! Don't you ashame with a woman in my age?"}-Anna, Alex's grandmother, screaming at Faruk after she thought he did something he actually didn't do."
""Nu, eich hashadyim shele? Kmo tapuhim, nahon"?{Well, how are her tits? Like apples, right"?}-Gadi Fishenzon after he let his friend see his sister, Fritzi, showering but it was his father actually who entered the shower."
""Sfatayim shela'kh kmo krokodil"{"?Your lips are like an crocodile"}-Faruk and his sexual fantasy which was actually with a chicken."
""Geveret, ze meod beyoker"!{"Mrs, it's very expensive"!}-Klara, Alex's mom, doesn't agree at first to pay 2 liras for half a pack of swiss butter."
""Yesh basar of, efshar la'asot marak".{"There is chicken meat, you can make a soup".}-Ya'akov, the husband of the owner of the black market, before he gave Alex and his mom a live chicken."
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.