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"Look, cave systems sometimes break ground. It's a small chance. But if we stay here, we'll die. Let's go."
"I'm an English teacher, not fucking Tomb Raider."
"You can move. Sarah, look at me, look at me. The worst thing that could have happened to you has already happened and you're still here. This is just a poxy cave and there's nothing left to be afraid of, I promise."
"Well...they're totally blind. And judging from what we've seen, I'd say they use sound to hunt with. Like a bat. And they've evolved perfectly to live down here in the dark. Whatever they are, they go to the surface to hunt. And they bring their food back down here to eat, through an entrance."
"You think it's dark when you turn out the lights, well down there it's pitch black."
"If you're a caver, jumper, climber...you just do it and not give a shite. Or the thing that's bigger than you will get you."
"The queen is dead. Long live... the fucking... [falling over] queen!"
"This one time in Galway, when I free-climbed the cathedral, a priest chased me down the whole of the ground floor. That was brilliant."
"Shauna Macdonald Sarah Carter"
"Natalie Mendoza Juno Kaplan"
"Alex Reid Beth O'Brien"
"MyAnna Buring Sam Vernet"
"Saskia Mulder Rebecca Vernet"
"Nora Jane Noone Holly Mills"
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.