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"Be wary of these men. Their love is not the same as their respect."
"You have not betrayed your nature. I cannot fault you for succumbing to his charms as I did. But we must be more careful now."
"It is enough my own Lords treat me as though I'm but a girl. I will not be treated as such by Elizabeth. I will be the woman she is not. I shall produce an heir, unlike her barren self."
"How cruel men are."
"England is not Scotland."
"Only with suffering do we know joy."
"Saoirse Ronan as Mary, Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart)"
"Margot Robbie as Queen Elizabeth I"
"Jack Lowden as Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley"
"Joe Alwyn as Lord Robert Dudley"
"David Tennant as John Knox"
"Guy Pearce as William Cecil"
"Gemma Chan as Bess of Hardwick"
"Martin Compston as James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell"
"Ismael Cruz Córdova as David Rizzio"
"Brendan Coyle as Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox"
"Ian Hart as Lord Maitland"
"Adrian Lester as Lord Randolph"
"James McArdle as James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray"
"Alex Beckett as Sir Walter Mildmay"
"Eileen O’Higgins as Mary Beaton"
"Maria-Victoria Dragus as Mary Fleming"
"Izuka Hoyle as Mary Seton"
"Liah O'Prey as Mary Livingston"
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.