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"Shitworms can't smell shit."
"Hey! [Rokurota looks curiously towards the peasants. Tahei and Matashichi shrink back in fear]... Evening."
"Matashichi? Let's stay friends in Heaven, too."
"Hide a stone among stones and a man among men."
"What you make of another's kindness is up to you."
"You cannot make my heart mute too!"
"I have enjoyed the journey. The happiness of these days, I would have never known living in the castle. I've seen people as they are, without pretense. I've seen their beauty and their ugliness with my own eyes."
"General Hyoe Tadokoro: Why did you let me survive the shame of my defeat? To defeat an enemy yet let him live may seem kind, but it's cruel!"
"Toshiro Mifune â General Rokurota Makabe"
"Minoru Chiaki â Tahei"
"Kamatari Fujiwara â Matashichi"
"Susumu Fujita â General Hyoe Tadokoro"
"Takashi Shimura â The Old General, Izumi Nagakura"
"Misa Uehara â Princess Yuki"
"Eiko Miyoshi â Old Lady-in-Waiting"
"Toshiko Higuchi â Farmer's Daughter bought from slave trader"
"YÅ« Fujiki â Barrier guard"
"Yoshio Tsuchiya â Samurai on horse"
"Kokuten KÅdÅ â Old man in front of sign"
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.