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"I feel like it dictated a certain direction my life took. That I just felt that it was this huge error in judgement that sort of marked me, and all my decisions. And I felt such shame that I let him do that. It was like he took my voice that day. Just when I was about to start finding it."
"What makes me most angry...is the silence...No one spoke out then and no one's talking about it now...he built the silence...And people complied...He produced fear and intimidation...The only alternative seemingly was to quit. And to throw away everything you had worked so hard for out of the door. You were terrified you'd be the next target. So people looked the other way."
"Based on actual events that helped ignite a movement."
"Carey Mulligan – Megan Twohey"
"Zoe Kazan – Jodi Kantor"
"Patricia Clarkson – Rebecca Corbett"
"Andre Braugher – Dean Baquet"
"Jennifer Ehle – Laura Madden"
"Samantha Morton – Zelda Perkins"
"Angela Yeoh – Rowena Chiu"
"Katherine Kendall – Miramax Executive"
"Peter Friedman – Lanny Davis"
"Anastasia Barzee – Lisa Bloom"
"Mike Houston – Harvey Weinstein"
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.