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"You have to find where you are needed.You cannot wait for other people.You would be waiting forever,” my mom adds.“Same with the island. It was us.It was the grandmothers. The mothers.It was you, Isa and Eliza, who started this organization.It was the women who saw the need and met it.Face forward. Unafraid. Who showed up. It was us."
"After the storm,what is left behind?"
"I am waiting to be the me I am proud of and not the one I am scared of beinghttps://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3294807.Ellen_Hagan"
"There are low times and there are high times. Something as simple as feeling overwhelmed, can get you down."
"It is very easy to do what everybody else is doing, especially when it is a shortcut."
"it is clear that as a leader, you have to think about how you are leading, how consistent you are, how inspiring you are, and how effective you are."
"It is only leaders who will create other leaders."
"This is how legacy is made. To live a life that will outlive you."
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.