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"So you're playing to your audience in a way. And of course, because when you get older, there's not much on the stage that reflects you. People love to see themselves reflected on the stage. ... That's what theatre should be. It should be telling us stuff about ourselves. And when you get to be over 70, that's what we're doing,"
"Keep in mind that the people who go to the theatre tend to be older. I put on a theatre show two years ago now or a year and a half, something like that,"
"it’s important to not just sit around and wait for somebody else to give you work: “It's nice if somebody else does, but you can't survive in this industry [if you don’t] create your own stuff.”"
"I blame that cow Mother Teresa"
"And here endeth the sizzle"
"Because I "needed" them for school I had previously extorted a chemistry set, a soldering iron a magnifying glass, a tape recorder, a fountain pen, a Stanley knife, a compass, a torch, a set of oil paints, a speedometer for my bike, some sea monkeys, an Electra set, a halliwell's, a subscription to Weapons and Warfare and a ticket to the opening night of the Hamilton film festival. I'm sure if I'd claimed I needed one for biology she'd have hooked me up with a prostitute."
"Dogs, now they're the real arse bandits!"
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.