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"So, that's how I came to Chimney Rock. Daniel in the lion's den. David facing off Goliath. Young, dumb and full of Christ. Ready for anything."
"Wicks kept his core group tight. And the seductive power of his charisma was undeniable. But his method...every week, he would pick someone out, a newcomer usually, and he would attack. [...] This is not the true Church. You ask even the most hardcore of those in the pews, and they'll say, of course this is not what they believe. This is Wicks being Wicks, pushing it too far. But what he's pushing for every time, is a walk-out. Why does he do this? Because when that person walks out, everyone watches. And even if in the light of day it's indefensible, deep down in the dark it scratches an itch. And by staying put in that pew, a side is taken. Wick's side. Testing tolerances. Tapping deep poisoned wells. Hardening, binding with complicity. So I tried to offer a counterbalance."
"What I see is not a guilty man in torment, but an innocent man tormented by guilt."
"This might get unpleasant... or more unpleasant."
"Daniel Craig - Benoit Blanc"
"Josh O'Connor - Jud Duplenticy"
"Glenn Close - Martha Delacroix"
"Josh Brolin - Monsignor Jefferson Wicks"
"Mila Kunis - Geraldine Scott"
"Jeremy Renner - Dr. Nat Sharp"
"Kerry Washington - Vera Draven, Esq."
"Andrew Scott - Lee Ross"
"Cailee Spaeny - Simone Vivane"
"Daryl McCormack - Cy Draven"
"Thomas Haden Church - Samson Holt"
"Jeffrey Wright - Bishop Langstrom"
"Annie Hamilton - Grace Wicks"
"James Faulkner - Reverend Prentice Wicks"
"Bridget Everett - Louise"
"Noah Segan - Nikolai"
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.