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April 10, 2026
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"(dials phone)"
"Hmmm. Phone’s ringing."
"I gotta answer these three phones."
"Pink for Karla, yellow for Jenn, green for Shaun, and blue for Curtis."
"But that phone’s ringing."
"(second phone rings)"
"♪ I'm a phone operator ♪"
"Today, I’m pretending to be a phone operator."
"One, two, three."
"See each person’s got a different color that matches these message boxes;"
"♪ Ring! Ring! I'm a phone operator ♪"
"I was going to pretend to be a phone operator, but…"
"(Jup Jup talks indistinctly)"
"That’s strange."
"♪ Not tiny at all ♪"
"Bye, Curtis!"
"♪ Not big at all ♪"
"♪ I've gotta answer the phone. ♪"
"(high-pitched voice) Bye!"
"You know it isn’t often you get to meet an ant and an elephant in your house."
"(normal voice) Bye!"
"And write messages on this colored paper."
"♪ Ring! Ring! I've gotta answer the phone ♪"
"♪ Hello! Hello! Gonna take the message ♪"
"(phone rings)"
"Oh, that phone’s ringing."
"♪ Write this down, tell them you're not at home, hey ♪"
"(picks up phone)"
"No, I think you got the wrong number."
"Hey! That big strong thing sounds like an elephant!"
"What’s an elephant doing in my house?!"
"SHAUN: Boom-boom-boom!"
"JENN: Oh, watch out, Curtis!"
"CURTIS: Hey elephant! Down here!"
"My ant voice is too small and too tiny for the elephant to hear!"
"Maybe I should try growing really tall!"
"♪ I wanna be tall, not tiny at all ♪"
"♪ Right up off the ground ♪"
"♪ Make a big loud sound ♪"
"HEY ELEPHANT!!"
"Listen to my BIG STRONG VOICE!"
"Oh, hi. Just on the way to the kitchen for some peanut butter!"
"Didn’t think there was anyone else in there."
"Well, I just grew really tall."
"Agh, don’t you love being tall with a BIG LOUD VOICE?!!!"
"Actually, I’m not sure which I like."
"…or small."
"♪ I love being tall ♪"
"♪ I love being small ♪"
"(third phone rings)"
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.