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"For me, the greater the odds, the greater the shal-ahnje. And, as always, I accept the shal-ahnje."
"Nothing worthwhile is ever easy; that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded."
"Most ingenious. The old closet ploy. I really must congratulate you; if there's one thing I enjoy, it's a good closet ploy."
"Good evening, commissioner. How are you, how is madame and all the little commissioners?"
"Until we meet again and the case is solv-ed."
"Compared to Clouseau, this doomsday machine is a water pistol!"
"Who is this man? And what is he doing? Who cares? But don't miss my new movie..."
"The newest, pinkest Panther of all!"
"Why are the world's chief assassins after Inspector Clouseau? Why not? Everybody else is."
"The all-new adventures of the world's most bumbling detective"
"Peter Sellers - Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau"
"Herbert Lom - Former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus"
"Leonard Rossiter - Superintendent Quinlan"
"Lesley-Anne Down - Olga Bariosova"
"Colin Blakely - Inspector Alec Drummond"
"Burt Kwouk - Cato Fong"
"André Maranne - François"
"Michael Robbins - Ainsley Jarvis"
"Richard Vernon - Professor Hugo Fassbender"
"Briony McRoberts - Margo Fassbender"
"Dick Crockett - the President of the United States"
"Byron Kane - the US Secretary of State"
"Gordon Rollings - Inmate"
"Dudley Sutton - Inspector Mclaren"
"John Clive - Chuck"
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.