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April 10, 2026
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"Never mind what I told you! You do as I tell you!"
"I like women as I like elephants, I like to look at 'em but I wouldn't own one."
"Even a dead fish can float downstream."
"Whilst travelling through the Andes mountains, we lost our corkscrew. Had to live on food and water for several days!"
"Bing Crosby - Tom Grayson"
"W. C. Fields - Commodore Jackson"
"Joan Bennett - Lucy Rumford"
"Queenie Smith - Alabam'"
"Gail Patrick - Elvira Rumford"
"Claude Gillingwater Sr. - General Rumford"
"John Miljan - Major Patterson"
"Edward Pawley - Joe Patterson"
"Fred Kohler - Captain Blackie"
"Five Cabin Kids - the Cabin Kids"
"John Larkin - Rumbo"
"Libby Taylor - Lavinia"
"Teresa Maxwell-Conover - Miss Markham"
"Paul Hurst - Hefty"
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.