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April 10, 2026
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"I'm a secret service agent, Mrs. Carlisle, not a caddy. You want that ball? I suggest you go get it yourself."
"Since you've insisted on me staying, you should know I intend to do my job by the book which means we don't run errands, we don't make snacks and we don't check our guns at the door. Now if you don't like any of this, I suggest you call Washington and get yourself a new man."
"The President is coming to Somersville. Will you have the cars and the machine guns ready in about an hour?"
"You should get a date, you should have a martini, you should drive with the top down, you should better yet give a tired old widow a break."
"Do I still have any influence in that evil little town or have they forgotten all about me?"
"Shirley MacLaine — Tess Carlisle"
"Nicolas Cage — Doug Chesnic"
"Austin Pendleton — Earl Fowler"
"Edward Albert — Barry Carlisle"
"James Rebhorn — Howard Schaeffer"
"Richard Griffiths — Frederick"
"John Roselius — Tom Bahlor"
"David Graf — Lee Danielson"
"James Lally — Joe Spector"
"Harry J. Lennix — Kenny Young"
"Susan Blommaert — Kimberly Cannon"
"Dale Dye — Charles Ivy"
"James Handy — Neal Carlo"
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.