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"Enola spelled backwards reads, well, "alone.""
"Hips are simply a function of legs, aren't they? What need have they of amplification?"
"London isn't quite what I imagined. People are a lot more... "excitable" than in the country."
"When looking to travel incognito, it's safest to travel as a widow. People are always anxious to avoid conversation about death. Widows scare them. And there's no better disguise than fear."
"I'll pay handsomely for good value!"
"Congratulations. You finally look like the nincompoop you were born to be."
"I am a detective, I am a decipherer, and I am a finder of lost souls. My life is my own. And the future is up to us."
"Look for what's there, not what you want to be there."
"Now, please put the teapot down. In your hands, it is a mighty weapon."
"Sometimes you must dangle your feet in the water in order to attract the sharks."
"If you want to stay in London, be tough... be tough! Live the life. But don't do it because you're looking for someone. Do it because you're looking for yourself."
"I'm not entirely an idiot, you know."
"Mystery runs in the family."
"Youngster. Rebel. Sleuth."
"Millie Bobby Brown - Enola Holmes"
"Henry Cavill - Sherlock Holmes"
"Sam Claflin - Mycroft Holmes"
"Helena Bonham Carter - Eudoria Holmes"
"Louis Partridge - Tewkesbury"
"Burn Gorman - Linthorn"
"Adeel Akhtar - Lestrade"
"Susie Wokoma - Edith"
"Hattie Morahan - Lady Tewkesbury, Tewkesbury's mother"
"David Bamber - Sir Whimbrel Tewkesbury, Tewkesbury's uncle"
"Frances de la Tour - The Dowager, Tewkesbury's grandmother"
"Claire Rushbrook - Mrs. Lane, the Holmes family housekeeper"
"Fiona Shaw - Miss Harrison"
"Ellie Haddington - Miss Gregory"
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.