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"One day when I'm old, I want some lovely young girl to say to me, "Tell me, where in your long life, Mr. Caster, were you most happy?" And I shall say, 'Well, my dear, I never knew the exact place. It was somewhere on the Mediterranean. I was with Victoria Page." "What?" she will say. "Do you mean the famous dancer?" I will nod. "Yes, my dear, I do. Then she was quite young, comparatively unspoiled. We were, I remember, very much in love.""
"Don't forget, a great impression of simplicity can only be achieved by great agony of body and spirit."
"You cannot have it both ways. A dancer who relies upon the doubtful comforts of human love can never be a great dancer. Never."
"[to Julian] It is worth remembering, that it is much more disheartening to have to steal than to be stolen from, hmmm?"
"[to Vicky] Sorrow will pass, believe me. Life is so unimportant. And from now onwards, you will dance like nobody ever before."
"Miss Page is unable to dance tonight, nor indeed any other night."
"Between her art ... and her dreams ... was her heart."
"Dance she did, and dance she must - between her two loves."
"A Dancing, Singing, Swinging Love Tale"
"Moira Shearer - Vicky Page"
"Marius Goring - Julian Craster"
"Anton Walbrook - Boris Lermontov"
"Léonide Massine - Grischa Ljubov"
"Robert Helpmann - Ivan Boleslawsky"
"Albert Bassermann - Sergei Ratov"
"Ludmilla Tchérina - Irina Boronskaja"
"Esmond Knight - Livingstone 'Livy' Montagne"
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.