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"Ah, the holidays. The most wonderful time of the year. And so, begins my tale. On the snowy morning of Christmas Eve, as Charlotte Cooper set out her 37th snow globe, trying to create the perfect Christmas for her family, she remembered a moment, she'd hoped she could hold on to forever..."
"Such a fuss, when everything we want is right in front of us the whole time..."
"That feeling like you've landed in the wrong life. Everybody feels that way."
"All we'd have to figure out is how long we've been together. And... what your name is."
"Be thankful the holidays only come around once a year."
"Christmas means comfort, joy and chaos."
"You can't regift family."
"Steve Martin - the Narrator/Rags the Dog"
"Alan Arkin - Bucky"
"John Goodman - Sam Cooper"
"Ed Helms - Hank"
"Diane Keaton - Charlotte Cooper"
"Jake Lacy - Joe"
"Anthony Mackie - Officer Percy Williams"
"Amanda Seyfried - Ruby"
"June Squibb - Aunt Fishy"
"Marisa Tomei - Emma"
"Olivia Wildie - Eleanor"
"Alex Borstein - Angie"
"Blake Baumgartner - Madison"
"Timothée Chalamet - Charlie"
"Maxwell Simkins - Bo"
"Dan Amboyer - Jake"
"Molly Gordon - Lauren Hesselberg"
"Cady Huffman - Gift shop clerk"
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.