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"[Hello. Ragini, this issue was long forgotten. All the debates have been done. So why dig up old graves now?] Old graves... Asking questions about the death of the 2nd Prime Minister of Independent India, Mr. Lal Bahadur Shashtri...and demanding the truth is digging up old graves for you? Not for me."
"I just want the truth to be out there. Don't we have any right to the truth?"
"Who Killed Shastri?"
"Naseeruddin Shah as PKR Natrajan"
"Mithun Chakraborty as Shyam Sunder Tripathi"
"Shweta Basu Prasad as Raagini Phule"
"Mandira Bedi as Indira Joseph Roy"
"Pallavi Joshi as Aiysha Ali Shah"
"Rajesh Sharma as Omkar Kashyap"
"Vinay Pathak as Mukhtar"
"Pankaj Tripathi as Gangaram Jha"
"Vishwa Mohan Badola as Justice Kurian Abraham"
"Prakash Belawadi as GK Anantha Suresh"
"Achint Kaur as Mrs. Natarajan"
"Yusuf Hussain"
"Prashant Gupta as Vivendra Pratap Singh Rana"
"Ankur Rathee as Imran Qureshi"
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.