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"It’s therefore imperative that we source, harness and emphasise leadership that is multi-faceted, which focuses on non- linear impact, which prioritises diversity and inclusion, and which transcends borders."
"Even though we may not see the leadership challenges in Iran or Sierra Leone as directly affecting us, we fully understand how climate change challenges are global, and how leadership in this aspect affects more than just your corner of the world."
"This approach to leadership is what is needed to save our planet. It’s our responsibility to fast track its legitimacy both by practitioners as well as by those who make leadership choices, by way of elections and other processes"
"I’ve discovered that this approach, and its full recognition is needed at this time because if we as women who have lived around the globe are still debating on whether leadership is gendered (it’s not, but the approach is, and should be) then how do we expect people living in the margins to see it"
"This is our effort to register what a positive impact globally that such an approach has had; that even those most opposed to it have felt the difference once they are able to experience it; and that this approach is not just something that women do, but that men who also lead through this lens are by enlarge better leaders because of it."
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.