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"You don’t have to give up football to be a mother"
"We are so happy as this is for the time happening and excitement need to be of great magnitude, we thank everyone who supported us, everyone who rallied behind us and most importantly I would like to thank God and the technical team, if it wasn’t them, we would not be here."
"Everything has its own timing, we are going to prepare for Morocco the same way we prepared for Zimbabwe, we are here because we worked really hard and we deserve to be there at Morocco."
"It is time to give younger players an opportunity to play in the national team."
"I have been playing for over a decade in the national team and also as the skipper. I’m very satisfied having made sacrifices, good efforts, mistakes and wise choices, and I want to thank Batswana who have been supportive."
"I will do my best at this year’s COSAFA and hope to retire on a high note by winning it."
"My dream is to be the coach and I think I am on the right track. I also want to encourage young females to play football as it is the next big thing."
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.