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"Our people are poets. When Dervalloc speaks of killing, he means using reason to defeat your arguments. When he speaks of sending you home in pieces, he means something quite harmless, I'm sure."
"Romans, you are damned. You have wakened the terrible anger of our gods and ancestors, and they will show you no mercy. We will crush your bones into the land you have desecrated. We will slit your veins and watch the blood burst from you and shower down upon our soil. We will swallow you up, and our strong green shoots will spring to life where you once stood. See your gods tremble and fall before the wrath of Boudica!"
"All men die, Isolda. All women, too. Our lives are over in a moment, like a bird that flies out of the darkness into a bright hall full of light and noise and merriment, then out again into the darkness of eternity. But in that moment, we can do great things. We can make ourselves remembered forever. And by all the gods, we will!"
"[last words] That was the beginning of her story, Isolda, my daughter. And no one will ever hear it. Because we don't write our stories down. We live them."
"Look at them. They're fighting this war to save their people. To keep their right to their own land. To preserve their religion and their right to practice it. And we're fighting it because... we're here, because it's our job... professional pride, really. Not enough, is it?"
"Oh, for gods' sake, Severus. This is a woman we're talking about! Soft, squidgy, half a brain... [Agrippina clears her throat] Yes, right, mother, present company excepted."
"[after killing Agrippina with poison] Any more, mother? No? Thank god for that. Peace at last."
"Alex Kingston as Boudica"
"Steven Waddington as King Prasutagus"
"Emily Blunt as Isolda"
"Leanne Rowe as Siora"
"Ben Faulks as Connach"
"Hugo Speer as Dervalloc"
"Gary Lewis as Magior the Shaman"
"Alex Hassell as Roman Officer"
"James Clyde as Roman Sergeant"
"Angus Wright as Severus"
"Steve John Shepherd as Catus"
"Jack Shepherd as Claudius"
"Gideon Turner as Didius"
"Frances Barber as Agrippina"
"Andrew-Lee Potts as Nero"
"Theodor Danetti as Master of Ceremonies"
"Cristina Serban as Iceni Mother"
"Alin Olteanu as Iceni Warrior"
"Emil Hostina as Arcon"
"Claudiu BleonÈ› as Ossac"
"Claudiu Trandafir as Roman Horseman"
"Ion Haiduc as Captain of the Guard"
"Nicodim Ungureanu as Roman Guard"
"Bogdan Dumitrescu as Roman Guard"
"Michael Feast as Suetonius"
"Kara Tointon as Poppaea"
"Jack Galloway as Suetonius' ADC"
"Dominic Cooper"
"Marian Iacob as Horribulus (uncredited)"
"Dorjn Zaharja as Tysonius (uncredited)"
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.