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"My first opinion of Paul was soon confirmed. He turned out to be an admirable tutor. In two years I'd learned all he had to teach, but we went on together... probing into the unknown, investigating, recording, searching... always searching... until gradually the sweep of our research began to assume a single direction... and to this aim we finally turned all our energies. It took us years of unrelenting work to discover what we were seeking. Then, one night... out of sight and sound of the rest of the house... our efforts were rewarded."
"Let's let our friend here rest in peace... while he can."
"I've harmed nobody, just robbed a few graves!"
"Is the world ready for the revelation you scientists make? There's a great difference between knowing a thing is so... and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of mankind. The trouble with us scientists is... we quickly tire of our discoveries. We hand them over to people who are not ready for them... while we go off again into the darkness of ignorance... searching for other discoveries... which will be mishandled in the same way when the time comes."
"The creature created by man and forgotten by nature!"
"Peter Cushing — Baron Victor von Frankenstein"
"Christopher Lee — the Creature"
"Hazel Court — Elizabeth"
"Robert Urquhart — Dr. Paul Krempe"
"Valerie Gaunt — Justine"
"Noel Hood — Aunt Sophia"
"Melvyn Hayes — Young Victor"
"Paul Hardtmuth — Professor Bernstein"
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.