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"[Iris: What does sueñito mean?] Sueñito? It means little dream."
"It's the story of a block that was disappearing. Once upon a time, in a faraway land called Nueva York, en un barrio called Washington Heights. Say it, so it doesn't disappear. [Kids: Washington Heights!]"
""El Sueñito." Pop's little dream."
"Abuela Claudia never had kids, so she adopted the whole block as her own. Adopted our sueñitos too."
"You hear that? The voices of the gods."
"It's creepy quiet. Usually, the One Train's up there, screeching."
"Usnavi, I'm the girl who paints nails. There's plenty like me, here, and over there."
"Maybe Stanford isn't a way out. Maybe it's a way back. Like Abuela always used to say, asserting our dignity in small ways."
"Let me just listen to my block."
"[sings] I'm making moves. I'm making deals. But guess what? [Usnavi: What?] You still ain't got no skills."
"Turn up the volume of your dreams."
"The time has come."
"Anthony Ramos – Usnavi de la Vega"
"Melissa Barrera – Vanessa Morales"
"Leslie Grace – Nina Rosario"
"Corey Hawkins – Benny"
"Olga Merediz – "Abuela" Claudia"
"Jimmy Smits – Kevin Rosario"
"Gregory Diaz IV – Sonny de la Vega"
"Daphne Ruba-Vega – Daniela"
"Stephanie Beatriz – Carla"
"Dascha Polanco – Cuca"
"Noah Catala – Graffiti Pete"
"Lin-Manuel Miranda – the piragüero"
"Mateo Gomez – Alejandro"
"Marc Anthony – Gapo de la Vega"
"Olivia Perez – Iris de la Vega"
"Christopher Jackson – the Mr. Softee Truck Driver"
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.