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"[Dictating to prompt] She had always known it was there, barely perceptible. A shadow behind her. But now... it was... as if the darkness... had swallowed her up. She became part of it now. Part of the... dark... [sighs staring at wall hologram of her transcribed speech and scrunches face tightly] it's rubbish! Erase session. [Wall hologram complies]"
"Shower... on? [Shower head turns on]"
"[To Rita after getting a bottle of wine] Everytime I fucking turn around!"
"[Rita confiscates wine bottle from her and pours it out] No, what are you doing?!"
"[To Rita] You saved my life."
"[To Rita] Can you meet me in the study?"
"[To Rita] It is completed!"
"[Answering machine] Hi, Claire, it's Alice again, urgently awaiting your call. I can't keep fobbing off the publishers."
"[Answering machine] Alice, it's friend as well as your agent. I know something's gone very wrong, but you have to find a way to deal with whatever this is. Get some help. Speak to a therapist, go to one of those retreat places. The publishers are spitting. You've got one month. Now ring me."
"[Website greeting] This is your invitation to the retreat, where your new chapter awaits you. So don't delay. Accept your invitation to receive your customized brochure. Welcome to the beginning of you."
"[Repeated line] Hello Claire. My name is Rita. I will be your assistant for the next 30 days. I am here to make your stay here as comfortable as possible and assist you in the completion of your work."
"[Repeated line] I can sense that you are distressed, Claire. Perhaps you should lie down."
"[Repeated line] I am fully equipped to handle all types of medical emergencies."
"[Repeated line] I apologize Claire. Let me clean that up for you."
"Your blood alcohol level is dangerously high."
"You are reaching dangerously high levels of alcohol poisoning. [Confiscates wine bottle and pours it down drain]"
"[Dumps bowl on floor to young Claire] Stop putting that poison in my food!"
"Your father was so sure you'd come out a boy. He wanted to give you his name. Sinclair. But when you came out, he... he was so disappointed. I told him we could still give you his name. Just drop the "sin" off, but you can never take away a sin. Ain't no hiding that. [Starts caressing Claire's chin] I'm the one that had to look at that pretty... pretty face... until I couldn't see no more. I'm the one that gets punished."
"[To Claire over stealing cigarettes] Do you think I can't count?"
"Rachel Shelley as Claire Rivers"
"Heida Reed as Rita"
"Wayne Brady as Henry"
"Annie Cusselle as Young Claire"
"Rebecca-Clare Evans as Helen Rivers"
"Bhasker Patel as Dr. Varma"
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.