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"He was exactly like me. A naked sword. He didn't stay in his sheath."
"Stupid friends are dangerous."
"If it sounds too good to be true it usually is."
"We can't move like this! We look like a centipede!"
"You tired of being stupid yet?"
"Mutsuta's wife: You're too sharp. That's your trouble. You're like a drawn sword. Sharp, naked without a sheath. You cut well. But good swords are kept in their sheaths."
"Mutsuta's wife: Killing people is a bad habit."
"Mutsuta, the Chamberlain: Once as I rode by, someone said "the rider has a longer face than the horse.""
"A fast sword, keen perception used well to SLAUGHTER HIS ENEMIES."
"Akira Kurosawa's Powerful and Newest Japanese Masterpiece"
"Toshiro Mifune - Sanjûrô Tsubaki"
"Tatsuya Nakadai - Hanbei Muroto"
"Yūzō Kayama - Iori Izaka"
"Reiko Dan - Chidori"
"Takashi Shimura - Kurofuji"
"Kamatari Fujiwara - Takebayashi"
"Takako Irie - Mutsuta's wife"
"Masao Shimizu - Kikui"
"Yūnosuke Itō - Mutsuta, the Chamberlain"
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.