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"She had patience. She could wait. This was, indeed, no ordinary woman."
"You are not to destroy him - if you do, I shall hate you as I've never hated a man."
"I have nothing more to say to you, Mr. Keane. I loved Andre Latour... and you murdered him. My life is finished; it is you yourself who have finished it. My only comfort is the hatred and contempt I feel for you!"
"Well, nice people don't go murdering other nice people."
"Gregory Peck - Anthony "Tony" Keane"
"Ann Todd - Gay Keane"
"Alida Valli - Mrs. Maddalena Anna Paradine"
"Charles Laughton - Judge Lord Thomas Horfield"
"Charles Coburn - Sir Simon Flaquer"
"Joan Tetzel - Judy Flaquer"
"Ethel Barrymore - Lady Sophie Horfield"
"Louis Jourdan - Andre Latour"
"Leo G. Carroll - Sir Joseph"
"Isobel Elsom - Innkeeper"
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.