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"American sword cuts on a push stroke, Japanese sword cuts on a pull stroke. When an American cracks up, he opens up the window and shoots up a bunch of strangers. When a Japanese cracks up, he closes the window and kills himself. Everything is in reverse."
"Goro Tanaka: Ken is a tormented man. It is Eiko, of course, but it is also Japan. Ken is a relic, a leftover of another age, of another country."
"A man never forgets. A man pays his debts."
"100 years ago they were called Samurai."
"Separated by blood and centuries - United by a Woman - Now, hurled together against the Yakuza . . . brotherhood of the East."
"The Secret Society of Japan"
"Robert Mitchum - Harry Kilmer"
"Ken Takakura - Ken Tanaka"
"Brian Keith - George Tanner"
"Herb Edelman - Oliver Wheat"
"Richard Jordan - Dusty"
"Keiko Kishi - Eiko Tanaka"
"Eiji Okada - Toshiro Tono"
"James Shigeta - Goro Tanaka"
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.