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"It's an odd feeling, farewell. There is such envy in it. Men go off to be tested, for courage. And if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness."
"I had a compass from Denys. To steer by, he said. But later it came to me that we navigated differently. Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road."
"Robert Redford as Denys Finch Hatton"
"Meryl Streep as Karen Blixen"
"Klaus Maria Brandauer as Bror and Hans von Blixen-Finecke"
"Michael Kitchen as Berkeley Cole"
"Shane Rimmer as Belknap"
"Malick Bowens as Farah Aden"
"Joseph Thiaka as Kamante"
"Stephen Kinyanjui as Chief Kinanjui"
"Michael Gough as Hugh Cholmondeley, Lord Delamere"
"Suzanna Hamilton as Felicity Spurway"
"Rachel Kempson as Sarah, Lady Belfield"
"Graham Crowden as Henry, Lord Belfield"
"Leslie Phillips as Sir Joseph Aloysius Byrne"
"Annabel Maule as Lady Byrne"
"Donal McCann as Doctor in Nairobi"
"Benny Young as Minister"
"Iman as Mariammo"
"Job Seda as Kanuthia"
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.