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"[discovers Gossamer] Uh-oh. Think fast, rabbit. My stars! Where did you ever get that awful hairdo? It doesn't become you at all. [sits the monster down and starts brushing its hair] Here, for goodness' sake, let me fix it up. Look how stringy and messy it is. What a shame. Such an interesting monster, too. My stars, if an interesting monster can't have an interesting hairdo, then I don't know what things are coming to. In my business you meet so many interesting people - Bobby pins, please - but the most interesting ones are the monsters. Oh, dear, that will never stay. We'll just have to have a permanemanent. [puts some dynamite on the monster's hair like rollers] Now, I've got to give an interesting old lady a manicure, but I'll be back before you're done. [leaves as the dynamite explodes, leaving a huge bald spot on the monster's head]"
"[while invisible] Well. [eats a carrot, gulps the orange meal and it falls down his throat and into his digestive system] That’s that!"
"Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny / Gossamer / Mouse."
"John T. Smith as Evil Scientist. (uncredited)"
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.