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"All I want to do is save the children, not destroy them. More than anything, I love children. More than anything. They need affection. Love. Someone who will belong to them, and to whom they will belong."
"I'm a bachelor but not I might add a lonely one. I spend a great deal of time abroad and as for my London life, well, it amuses me, but it's not the sort of amusement that one could suitably share with children. In brief Miss Giddens, I'm a very selfish fellow, and the last man alive to be saddled so suddenly and so awkwardly with two orphaned infants. It's most unfortunate, as I have no room for them mentally or emotionally. Does that seem quite heartless?"
"I'm not a mind reader, my dear. I've told you that before. But I do sense things."
"It's a bit sad, though, when people don't have time for you."
"Oh, look, a lovely spider: it's eating a butterfly."
"Apparitions? Evils? Corruptions?"
"Do they ever return to possess the Living?"
"A strange new experience in shock."
"You'll Get the Shock of Your Life!"
"Deborah Kerr — Miss Giddens"
"Michael Redgrave — The Uncle"
"Peter Wyngarde — Peter Quint"
"Megs Jenkins — Mrs. Grose"
"Martin Stephens — Miles"
"Pamela Franklin — Flora"
"Clytie Jessop — Miss Jessel"
"Isla Cameron — Anna"
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.