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"I'm an unnatural mother."
"Long time ago, at some point, I considered, only half seriously, considered having implants. But, um, they come from nowhere, so what are they worth?"
"I hate talking to my kids on the phone."
"It's Auden. "Chill of the crooked wing falls down along my body". It's ridiculous. It's just something I taught them. "The Crisis". Hmm? An inside joke."
"As Simone Weil says, "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."
"Camus posits that the ontological emptiness of the universe chafes against the intrinsically human desire for metaphysical meaning."
"Bourdieu's mistake is that he often forgot the first part of his own name."
"I want to go to bed with you. But it looks like you're married, so... you'll have to start this."
"Thank God, because whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny."
"Olivia Colman as Leda"
"Jessie Buckley as Young Leda"
"Dakota Johnson as Nina"
"Ed Harris as Lyle"
"Peter Sarsgaard as Professor Hardy"
"Paul Mescal as Will"
"Dagmara Dominczyk as Callie"
"Robyn Elwell as Bianca"
"Jack Farthing as Joe"
"Ellie Mae Blake as Martha"
"Oliver Jackson-Cohen as Toni"
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.