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"[as he hunts a baboon, visibly angry at Solomon over almost getting them killed the night before] You know I once had this buddy named Maboko. We used to hunt bushmeat together as kids, huh. Baboons.Baboons, they were the hardest to catch. They're... They're cunning. Cunning creatures. Fast, strong. Got good eyesight. We'd always find them by the smell of their shit and that's how we learned to track your black terrorists in Angola: by the smell of your shit. It's not the same as a baboon's but after you skin it the flesh of a baboon isn't all that different than a man's you know. I tell you, I can track anything. [takes carcass and wipes blood off knife with leaf] Risk my life like that again and I'll peel you face back off your head. You understand?"
"[trying to reason with Dia, who has a gun aimed at him] You're Dia Vandy, of the proud Mende tribe. You are a good boy who loves soccer and school. Your mother loves you so much. She waits by the fire making plantains and red palm oil stew with your sister N'Yanda...and the new baby. [gradually gets closer] The cows wait for you. and Babu, the wild dog who minds no one but you. I know they made you do bad things, but you are not a bad boy. I am your father... who loves you. And you will come home with me and be my son again."
"[at an RUF labour mining camp where captive villagers are forced to mine for diamonds] The Freetown government and their white masters have raped your land to feed their greed! RUF have freed you! No more slave and master here! RUF is fighting for the people! RUF is FIGHTING for Sierra Leone! [sees a worker find a diamond and hide it in his mouth; speaks but not directly referring to the worker] Any bastard think he would joke with me diamond, I go cut he throat! STOP! [approaches the worker] Give it to me! [worker takes the diamond out of his mouth and hands it to Poison, who then shoots him]"
"[to Vandy] You think I am a devil, but only because I have lived in Hell. I want to get out."
"It Will Cost You Everything"
"From the director of "Glory" and "The Last Samurai""
"No one has found a diamond, Until Now"
"Leonardo DiCaprio - Danny Archer"
"Jennifer Connelly - Maddy Bowen"
"Djimon Hounsou - Solomon Vandy"
"Kagiso Kuypers - Dia Vandy"
"Arnold Vosloo - Colonel Coetzee"
"Antony Coleman - Cordell Brown"
"Benu Mabhena - Jassie Vandy"
"Anointing Lukola - N'Yanda Vandy"
"David Harewood - Captain Poison"
"Basil Wallace - Benjamin Kapanay"
"Jimi Mistry - Nabil"
"Michael Sheen - Rupert Simmons"
"Marius Weyers - Rudolf van de Kaap"
"Stephen Collins - Ambassador Walker"
"Ntare Mwine - M'Ed"
"Ato Essandoh - Captain "Rambo""
"Gaurav Chopra - French journalist"
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.