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"A serious illness can change even a man's heart."
"I am wicked, as you believe. I am a scoundrel. I banished my father and I killed my own son. I will do anything to rule this country. War is everywhere. Unless somebody unifies the nation and reigns over us, we will see more rivers of blood and more mountains of the dead."
"To occupy Kyoto, to fly my flags in the capital, has been my long-cherished dream. But... if something should happen to me, do not pursue that dream. Remember: my death must not be made known. Keep it a secret, for at least three years. Guard our domain. Never move from it. Do not move! If you ignore my order and set out to attack, our Takeda clan will be no more. Heed my words! This... is my final wish."
"I know it is difficult. I was for a long time the lord's double. It was torture. It is not easy to suppress yourself to become another. Often I wanted to be myself and free. But now I think this was selfish of me. The shadow of a man can never desert that man. I was my brother's shadow. Now that I have lost him, it is as though I am nothing."
"The shadow of a man can never stand up and walk on its own."
"[Giving battle instructions to his messengers on horseback] Tell the gunners to shoot the horses first. The Takeda cavalry cannot fight without horses."
"Tatsuya Nakadai - Takeda Shingen/Kagemusha"
"Tsutomu Yamazaki - Takeda Nobukado"
"Kenichi Hagiwara - Takeda Katsuyori"
"Jinpachi Nezu - Tsuchiya Sohachiro"
"Hideji Otaki - Yamagata Masakage"
"Daisuke Ryu - Oda Nobunaga"
"Masayuki Yui - Tokugawa Ieyasu"
"Kaori Momoi - Otsuyanokata"
"Mitsuko Baisho - Oyunokata"
"Hideo Murota - Baba Nobufusa"
"Takayuki Shiho - Naito Masatoyo"
"Koji Shimizu - Atobe Katsusuke"
"Noburo Shimizu - Hara Masatane"
"Sen Yamamoto - Oyamada Nobushige"
"Shuhei Sugimori - Kōsaka Masanobu"
"Takashi Shimura - Taguchi Gyobu"
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.