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"There must be moments in your life where you can instantly recall the melancholy, or the anger, or the grief, and you just step into that for a second and then transfer it to whatever you're doing. It's called transference. That gets easier as you get older. It's just like exercising a muscle. I think it's why a lot of actors are a bit mixed up and a bit neurotic, because if they let go of their neurosis it would become less easy to do that. If you say, you know, let go of that anger Louise, in a way I don't want to because I want to keep it there and use it for my acting"
"Really to immobilise your face when you’re in the business of communicating is an oxymoron…is that the right word? It just doesn’t seem to make sense."
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.