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"The D’Ascoynes certainly appeared to have accorded with the tradition of the landed gentry and sent the fool of the family into the Church"
"[Lady Agatha D'Ascoyne has been killed while sailing a hot-air balloon over London.] I shot an arrow in the air; she fell to earth in Berkeley Square."
"While I never admired Edith as much as when I was with Sibella, I never longed for Sibella as much as when I was with Edith."
"The Reverend Lord Henry was not one of those newfangled parsons who carry the principles of their vocation uncomfortably into private life."
"It is so difficult to make a neat job of killing people with whom one is not on friendly terms."
"The next morning I went out shooting with Ethelred—or rather, to watch Ethelred shooting; for my principles will not allow me to take a direct part in blood sports."
"I always say that my west window has all the exuberance of Chaucer without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period."
"Dennis Price — Louis Mazzini"
"Alec Guinness — The D'Ascoynes"
"Joan Greenwood — Sibella Holland"
"Miles Malleson — Mr. Elliot The Hangman"
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.