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"It’s easier to align yourself in your life and career when you know what you want, so you’re not overwhelmed."
"I feel like often the perception about people in public life or celebrities is that, it’s glamorous and all of that, but it’s actually a lot of hard work, a lot of criticism and self-doubt."
"I feel a lot of times in the pursuit of trying to tell African stories, we want to glamorise the real pain and trauma we go through as a continent, and I think that this story was so powerful — it’s about these girls in Goma who faced horrific challenges in their life, and they’re quite young. They use boxing as a method to take out that frustration and find strength."
"I believe in being authentic, and I spend a lot of time with myself, which helps me live from a truthful place."
"It’s purpose-driven, and I believe in that. I won’t do anything for money, fame or popularity. It has to sit well with me and my spirit, so when I had the initial conversation with the brand, our energy matched instantly."
"I’m also just someone who can push myself. I really work well under pressure, and love what I do. So I don’t mind going the extra mile."
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.