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"If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course."
"What gift do you think a good servant has that separates them from the others? It's the gift of anticipation. And I'm a good servant. I'm better than good. I'm the best. I'm the perfect servant. I know when they'll be hungry and the food is ready. I know when they'll be tired and the bed is turned down. I know it before they know it themselves."
"I believe in love. Not just getting it, but giving it. I think that if you're able to love someone, even if they don't know it, even if they can't love you back, then it's worth it."
"Maggie Smith - Lady Constance Trentham"
"Kelly Macdonald - Mary Maceachran"
"Jeremy Northam - Ivor Novello"
"Michael Gambon - Sir William McCordle"
"Kristin Scott Thomas - Lady Sylvia McCordle"
"Camilla Rutherford - Isobel McCordle"
"Charles Dance - Lord Raymond Stockbridge"
"Geraldine Somerville - Louisa Stockbridge"
"Tom Hollander - Anthony Meredith"
"Natasha Wightman - Lavinia Meredith"
"Bob Balaban - Morris Weissman"
"James Wilby - Freddie Nesbitt"
"Claudie Blakley - Mabel Nesbitt"
"Laurence Fox - Rupert Standish"
"Trent Ford - Jeremy Blond"
"Ryan Phillippe - Henry Denton"
"Stephen Fry - Inspector Thompson"
"Clive Owen - Robert Parks"
"Helen Mirren - Mrs. Wilson"
"Eileen Atkins - Mrs. Croft"
"Emily Watson - Elsie"
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.