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"[to Lawrie Dayne] At least tell me how it happened. How does this happ... how does someone like you write something that's not true? Tell me."
"[to Miller] It is not for you to decide what happens here."
"Your government wanted to hear the lie Mr. Miller... they wanted Saddam out and they did exactly what they had to do... this is why you are here..."
"[to Poundstone] You cannot just hand this country over to an exile no one's ever heard of, and a bunch of interns from Washington."
"Matt Damon - Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller"
"Amy Ryan - Lawrie Dayne"
"Brendan Gleeson - Martin Brown"
"Greg Kinnear - Clark Poundstone"
"Yigal Naor - General Mohammed Al-Rawi"
"Jason Isaacs - Maj. Briggs"
"Martin McDougall - Mr. Sheen"
"Khalid Abdalla - Freddy"
"Michael O'Neill - Colonel Bethel"
"Antoni Corone - Colonel Lyons"
"Tommy Campbell - Chopper Comms Commander"
"Sean Huze - U.S. Army Sergeant Conway"
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.