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"Man is born crying. When he has cried enough, he dies."
"Why stay with this mad old man? If the rock you stay on starts to roll, jump clean. Or you'll go with it and be squashed. Only a fool stays aboard."
"The failed mind sees the heart's failings."
"In a mad world, only the mad are sane!"
"He gives away his house, He gives away his lands, He now holds a new title: 'Lord of the rice fields' a scarecrow!"
"Does a traitor betray himself?"
"Men prefer sorrow over joy... suffering over peace!"
"What I was trying to get at in Ran, and this was there from the script stage, was that the gods or God or whoever it is observing human events is feeling sadness about how human beings destroy each other, and powerlessness to affect human beings' behavior."
"Tatsuya Nakadai - Lord Hidetora Ichimonji"
"Akira Terao - Taro Takatora Ichimonji"
"Jinpachi Nezu - Jiro Masatora Ichimonji"
"Daisuke Ryu - Saburo Naotora Ichimonji"
"Mieko Harada - Lady Kaede"
"Yoshiko Miyazaki - Lady Sue"
"Hisashi Igawa - Shuri Kurogane"
"Pîtâ - Kyoami"
"Masayuki Yui - Tango Hirayama"
"Kazuo Katô - Kageyu Ikoma"
"Norio Matsui - Shumenosuke Ogura"
"Toshiya Ito - Mondo Naganuma"
"Kenji Kodama - Samon Shirane"
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.