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"If I perish... I perish."
"[in her prayers] Obedient I have been. I walk before you with a loyal heart and now I stand in the hour of trouble precisely because of my obedience. I beseech you father. Let there be another way. Rise up a deliverer and let this pass... let this pass."
"God, every day I pray for you to give me the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon. And what do you give me? You give me the endless equivocations... of a beautiful, young woman!"
"[impassioned, kissing Esther deeply] Know you how many times I tried to come for you after that first night... How many evenings I spent counting the stars to keep my mind off you... How many excuses I created just to avoid the other candidates. [kissing her wholly]"
"[presenting Esther to his kingdom] Persians! Your queen!"
"Tiffany Dupont - Hadassah/Esther"
"Luke Goss - King Xerxes I of Persia"
"John Rhys-Davies - Mordecai"
"Omar Sharif - Prince Memucan"
"Tommy Lister, Jr. - Hegai"
"Jonah Lotan - Jesse"
"John Noble - Prince Admatha"
"James Callis - Haman"
"Peter O'Toole - Prophet Samuel"
"Denzil Smith - Prince Carshena"
"Jyoti Dogra - Queen of Persia Vashti"
"Tom Alter - King Saul of Israel"
"Aditya Bal - Amalekite King Agag"
"Dilshad Patel - Hannah"
"Nimrat Kaur - Sarah"
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.