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"It wasn't his fault.. It was an accident! What is destined to happen happens! If God placed it on our path, there has to be a reason."
"Two or three weeks after your arrest, I too was arrested. On the same charges as everyone else : collusion, conspiracy and propaganda against the regime."
"There's an ATM over there. But two hundred tomans is the most you can withdraw."
"They hanged me by my feet! I didn't see the sun for three months. I could no longer tell day from night. And now you feel sorry for them? People like you think they're the Gandhis and Mandelas, and they see us as the Hitlers and Mussolinis. You don't get it. If this guy survives, he won't spare us. Don't you realize that?!"
"I was blindfolded when they took me out of the cell. They took me to the gallows. I heard a woman ask, "Do I let her fall?" Then I heard a broken voice answer her, "Yes, let her fall. But she's young, make sure her neck breaks right away so she doesn't suffer too much"... I waited for hours for them to lower the lever and put me out of my misery... until I heard that voice again, Take her down, she needs to be married first before we cast her into hell.. They thought an executed virgin would go straight to heaven and they didn't want to do me that honor."
"Daddy, where are you. Mommy won't wake up. Please, hurry. Mommy's dying. Daddy, hurry. Daddy. Daddy, why aren't you saying anything? Mommy's dying. Daddy. Please, say something."
"Fine, I'll help you reach that goal. I'll make you a martyr right now."
"Vahid Mobasseri - Vahid"
"Mariam Afshari - Shiva"
"Ebrahim Azizi - Eghbal"
"Hadis Pakbaten - Goli/Golrokh"
"Majid Panahi - Ali"
"Mohammad Ali Elyasmehr - Hamid"
"Delnaz Najafi - Eghbal's daughter"
"Afssaneh Najmabadi - Eghbal's wife"
"Georges Hashemzadeh - Salar"
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.