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"Slipped. Fell. Closed fracture. Lost consciousness. Woke up, and there's a cast."
"I'm no coward... but I'm afraid."
"Great thing he's not a smuggler. Nice guy... Why did I get so drunk, eh?"
"How could you think that?! You, my wife, mother of my children! Oh Lord! Oh, woe be me...!"
"They might even award me... post-humo-usly...! [sniffs]"
"These cretins swore he was unconscious. So this dope doesn't know anything. Excellent..."
"Stay aside, you milksop! Out of my way!"
"Fedya, another hundred and fifty [grams] champagne, and that's it."
"[Gena and Lyolik are with the chief] [Gena, hysterically] Chief, it's all over! It is all over!! They're to remove the cast! The client is leaving! Hahaha! He, he... I'll kill him! I will...! [Lyolik covers Gena's face with his beret] Mmmm... [bites Lyolik's finger] Eh! Eh! Eh! [Lyolik: Ah!!] Eh! Eh! Eh! Eh! Eh!"
"Well, maybe in London a dog is a man's best friend, but here it's the building manager!"
"Our people don't take taxis to the bakery!"
"In our business, the matter is this very realism."
"If you drink champagne in the morning, you must be an aristocrat... or a degenerate!"
"Wish I saw you in a coffin! In white slippers!"
"As our beloved Chief likes to say, even teetotallers and those with stomach ulcers will have a drink on someone else's tab!"
"As our beloved Chief likes to say, I haven't yet seen a husband who didn't want to become a bachelor just for one hour!"
"As our beloved Chief likes to say, if someone's an idiot, that sure is for a long time!"
"As our beloved Chief likes to say, strike the iron before leaving the cash register!"
"Enough of these jokes! You have not a closed fracture there... but an open one. [drinks brandy in one gulp] Let's go to sleep..."
"... I saw your ‘special mission’. After such a terrible lie, I don't want and can't be with you. I am sure that the children will understand me when they grow up. I'll file for divorce myself. Farewell"
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.