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"This is India. The North West Frontier province. 1905. A country of many religions. Men find many reasons for killing each other - greed, revenge, jealousy or perhaps because they worship God by different names."
"The British never seem to do anything until they've had a cup of tea, by which time it's too late."
"You'll have to forgive me for speaking my mind. I happen to believe that's what it's for."
"Victoria [the train Victoria] is old, I confess that. But she has experience and when she has experience, nothing can go wrong."
"It (killing/fighting) proves that I am a true Moslem. That I care enough to fight and maybe even to die for my faith. For a country that will be all Moslem and I will belong there. Are you capable of understanding that?"
"I like children as much as you do but that one boy... My God, don't you understand? That one boy, he's a symbol, an outworn tradition that stands between my country and freedom. I shall kill him. I must kill him in order to save the lives of thousands. One life will be lost - one Indian life - but thousands will be saved."
"Kenneth More - Capt. William Charles Willoughby Scott"
"Lauren Bacall - Catherine Wyatt"
"Herbert Lom - Peter van Leyden"
"Wilfrid Hyde-White - Mr. Bridie"
"I. S. Johar - Gupta, the driver"
"Ursula Jeans - Lady Windham"
"Eugene Deckers - Peters"
"Ian Hunter - Sir John Windham"
"Jack Gwillim - Brigadier Ames"
"Govind Raja Ross - Prince Kishan"
"Basil Hoskins - A.D.C."
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.