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"I didn't cry because I do not know how to cry."
"My mother didn't have time to tell me stories."
"What? You thought I was a what? You...You...You daughter of a pig!"
"May I have a bit of earth?"
"I've stolen a garden. But it may already be dead, I don't know."
"If you scream another scream, I will scream too. And I can scream louder than you, and for longer."
"Be quiet! You're the most selfish boy that ever was! I hate you!"
"No one who's ill can scream like that!"
"[last line] The spell was broken. My uncle learned to laugh, and I learned to cry. The secret garden is always open now. Open, and awake, and alive. If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden."
"I'm master when my father's away."
"Spores are the little things in the wind that get stuck to your lungs."
"I'm coming back tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that and the day after that."
"I don't care."
"I'm not sour!"
"When they said you were coming from India I thought you were going to be a native."
"I thought all little girls liked to be tickled."
"Begging your pardon, Miss."
"The timeless tale of a special place where magic, hope, and love grow."
"Maggie Smith - Mrs. Medlock"
"Kate Maberly - Mary Lennox"
"Andrew Knott - Dickon Sowerby"
"Heydon Prowse - Colin Craven"
"John Lynch - Lord Archibald Craven (Colin's father and Mary's uncle)"
"Irène Jacob - Mrs. Lennox (Mary's mother) / Lilias Craven (Colin's mother)"
"Colin Bruce - Major Lennox (Mary's father)"
"Laura Crossley - Martha Sowerby"
"Walter Sparrow - Ben Weatherstaff"
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.