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"Ten years ago, my father was in Munich. Often, after the theater, he told me that he'd go with friends to a Bierstube. There was a nutty man they thought a fool. He spoke about politics. He was quite an attraction. They'd buy him beer and encourage him. He'd stand up on the table making furious speeches. It was Hitler."
"It's funny, though, you know? Everyone would like to be different from the others, but instead you want to be the same as everyone else."
"Oh, hunchbacks bring good luck."
"He'll be a typical intellectual, disagreeable and impotent."
"[somewhat inebriated] Shopping is only for women. Husbands pay!"
"[disgusted by Marcello's inability to act and leaving their car] How disgusting! I've always said so. Make me work in the shit - sure, but not with a coward! It's up to me! Cowards, homosexuals, Jews - they're all the same thing! If it were up to me, I'd stand them all against a wall! Better yet - eliminate them when they're born!"
"Jean-Louis Trintignant - Marcello Clerici"
"Stefania Sandrelli - Giulia"
"Gastone Moschin - Manganiello"
"Enzo Tarascio - Professor Quadri"
"Fosco Giachetti - Il colonnello"
"José Quaglio - Italo"
"Dominique Sanda - Anna Quadri"
"Pierre Clémenti - Lino"
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.