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"When your father was a boy like you, and living with me here in Norway, I told him about witches too, so that he would always be aware. Now, the most important thing you should know about real witches is this - now listen very carefully! Real witches dress in ordinary clothes, and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses, and they work in ordinary jobs."
"[after zapping a witch into a pile of ashes] I hope nobody else is going to make me cross today."
"[after being turned into a mouse, to Mrs. Jenkins] You always wanted me to lose weight. Well, look at me now."
"Anjelica Huston - Eva Ernst / The Grand High Witch"
"Mai Zetterling - Helga Eveshim"
"Jasen Fisher - Luke Eveshim,"
"Rowan Atkinson - Mr. Stringer"
"Bill Paterson - Mr. Jenkins"
"Brenda Blethyn - Mrs. Jenkins"
"Charlie Potter - Bruno Jenkins"
"Anne Lambton - Woman in Black"
"Jane Horrocks - Miss Irvine"
"Sukie Smith - Marlene"
"Rose English - Dora,"
"Jenny Runacre - Elsie"
"Annabel Brooks - Nicola Cuttle"
"Emma Relph - Millie"
"Nora Connolly - Beatrice"
"Rosamund Greenwood - Janice"
"Angelique Rockas - Henrietta"
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.