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"I believe that God called me to empower women."
"Women have a foundational role to play in building families, institutions and the nation."
"Empowering a woman who nurtures and influences both the boy and girl child is a key component to a better nation."
"A woman that is secure, confident, grounded, economically empowered has the ability to change the direction of a family and in so doing can change the value system of an individual."
"As I mature as a leader, I realize that leadership is about influence as opposed to position."
"People will always attack you and your decisions even when they are carried out with integrity and a pure heart."
"Leadership is tough because of the weight of responsibility and the demand it places on an individual to lay down their life."
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.