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"[repeated line] Mij!"
"Escape the rat race?"
"[on a train] Come, steady now, Mij."
"It's not the easiest thing in the world to travel by train with an otter."
"[trapped on roof of his cottage after Mij knocks ladder over] What an idiot I am!"
"You can't keep an otter in London it's too cruel! For the humans, I mean!"
"Well, you've made one or two changes I see. Is it to keep otters in and humans out, or the other way round?"
"Mary MacKenzie: [about her dog's devotion to Mij] I don't think he realizes he's a dog!"
"Road mender: [horrified at his mistake] I-I thought it was just an otter!"
"The Stars of BORN FREE Shine Even Brighter"
"A motion picture for every family... everywhere!"
"The stars, the warmth, the pleasure of Born Free."
"The stars of BORN FREE in a new adventure with a mischievous otter."
"Bill Travers as Graham Merrill"
"Virginia McKenna as Mary MacKenzie"
"Peter Jeffrey as Colin Wilcox"
"Jameson Clark as Storekeeper"
"Helena Gloag as Mrs. Flora Elrich"
"W. D. Joss as Lighthouse keeper"
"Roddy McMillan as Bus driver"
"Jean Taylor-Smith as Mrs. Sarah Chambers"
"Christopher Benjamin as Fishmonger"
"Archie Duncan as Road mender"
"Tommy Godfrey as Ticket seller"
"Phil McCall as Frank"
"Joyce McClain as Stunt woman"
"Two Wisconsin otters owned and trained by Tom and Mabel Beecham of Phillips, Wisconsin portrayed Mij the otter."
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.