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"That was totally awesome!"
"Okay, yes, crocodiles can bite through bone and, yes, they have a taste for human flesh, but he's not like that. He wears a scarf and he can sing."
"You must be the new tenants. I see that you've met my crocodile. He's an extraordinary talent. His name is Lyle."
"[as Lyle is licking him] I miss you, too!"
"Who wants to be safe? No-no-no safe is a repellent little word, exponge it from your mind! We are here to live, yes? And living is a dangerous business, my friend!"
"Nothing could be of less importance than what other people think. Let people stare! For once in their dreary lives, they have something wonderful to look at; Look! Look!"
"Winslow Fegley — Josh*"
"Javier Bardem — Hector"
"Shawn Mendes — Lyle"
"Constance Wu — Mrs. Primm"
"Scoot McNairy — Mr. Primm"
"Brett Gelman — Grumps"
"Ego Nwodim — Carol"
"Lyric Hurd — Trudy"
"Jason Kravits — Cy"
"He knows every scale."
"It's a jungle out there."
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.