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"[Anna grins to herself. At last. They have suddenly come to life. Now all she has to do is turn that spark of interest into a fire]"
"[Anna leads them out of the classroom to the school gymnasium. She glances around the old gymnasium and then walk over to a closet door marked "Equipment"]"
"Anna: We're gonna learn something together. Something everyone can participate in!"
"Polly: There's nothing in there except dead mice, ma'am."
"Anna: Then we'll learn about mice. [She yanks open the closet door. To everyone's surprise, the closet isn't filled with mice, just a few moths. Anna waves aside the moths and digs into the closet. A few seconds later, she pulls out an old, scuffed, kickball] Here we have it. A football."
"[The children look at Anna]"
"Nick: I don't think so."
"Larry: It's Mrs. Curdley's old kickball."
"Anna: No. It's a ball. And if we use it for football, it becomes a football."
"Evan: Ma'am. Footballs aren't round. They look more like lemons."
"[Anna understands why the children are so confused]"
"Anna: What I call football, you call soccer. This is a soccer ball!"
"Polly: Are you feeling alright, ma'am? It's alright with us if you want to chew garlic pills."
"Anna: I'm feeling better than I have in days. We are going to learn soccer."
"Sue and Lou: We don't play soccer."
"Nick: Yes. It's for foreigners."
"Anna: Well, I'm a foreigner."
"Sue and Lou: Well, we're American."
"Tak: And we don't like soccer."
"[Anna frowns furiously]"
"Anna: You guys don't like anything. The boys don't like the girls. Kate doesn't speak to anyone. Polly speaks to a goat. The twins speak only to themselves. And nobody speaks to Tak. Juan's going to fit right in. Well, all that's going to change, whether you like it or not. [She points to the door] Outside, everybody. Today's lesson has changed. You're going to learn how to play soccer!"
"[Anna leads the children out to the schoolyard]"
"Anna: In soccer, you don't use your hands."
"Nick: We know that."
"Anna: But just because you can't use your hands, doesn't mean you can't use your body."
"[The school bell rings]"
"Anna: Whoever would like to try should stay after school. We'll have a practice."
"[The children exchange looks. They decide to stay]"
"[Only the new boy, Juan Morales, walks off]"
"Anna: Juan, where are you going? We need you. Don't you want to try?"
"[Juan doesn't respond. He doesn't even turn around. He just walks out of the schoolyard and down the road, until he is out of view]"
"Anna: Alright, he's new. He's shy. He'll come on board later. [Then she rolls the ball to Nick] Give it a kick."
"[Nick gives it a powerful spike, just as if he are kicking a can into the middle of the road. The ball shoots high into the air and disappears into the street. Anna grins, impressed. There may be signs of life in Elma, after all, she thinks optimistically]"
"[All the children run into the middle of the street in search of the ball. Suddenly, they are distracted by the lament of a police siren]"
"Tom: Hang on right there, youngsters! [The children stop as they see his car rolling slowly up the road] Foolish nonsense I happened to be in the area, ma'am. You know, cars come whizzing down this street like there's no tomorrow."
"[Anna throws Tom a suspicious look]"
"Anna: I haven't seen a car pass all day except yours, Sheriff Tom. Five times."
"Tom: Just doing my job, ma'am. [The children chortle]"
"Nick: Ooh! [sings] Deputy Dog's in love. Deputy Dog's in love!"
"[Then the rest of the children join in]"
"Children: [singing] Deputy Dog's in love, Deputy Dog's in love!"
"[Tom sees one of the children holding the soccer ball. He climbs out of his car]"
"Tom: Then what's going on?"
"Anna: We're playing football."
"Tom: This isn't football. I know football."
"Anna: This is what the rest of the world calls football, Sheriff Tom. [Then she turns to the children] Alright, get into a circle and kick the ball back and forth to each other. This is called passing."
"Tom: Passing is in the air. [The children form a circle and begin kicking the ball around] It's with a pigskin. It's "First and ten, do it again"."
"[Anna catches sight of some rusty metal drums sitting among the school shed]"
"Anna: Give me a hand, and we'll discuss it."
"[Tom helps Anna roll four of the drums into the schoolyard. Then they set two up at either end of the field, forming two makeshift goalposts. The children play carelessly and with abandon, and only occasionally stop long enough to take pointers from Tom and Anna. But that is fine with Anna. Everybody is having fun––except for Kate, who stands on the sidelines scowling]"
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.