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"create their own rules of diversity"
"For me, it’s more than just a product, it’s the idea behind the product"
"There are so many types of beauty that all deserve to be celebrated"
"There are still people who make comments occasionally, but they’re in the minority"
"Most of the response has been and is hugely positive. For those who feel the need to be bullies, I ignore them. Negative energy is wasteful"
"I would tell her to be more patient, and spend less energy on bullies, although it is very hard keep in mind that they just want to glow like you"
"Look at your skin. Look at your teeth and your smile. You are beautiful."
"I Want to Show Girls It’s Not Bad to Be Dark—Different Is Beautiful"
"Where I grew up, we had light skinned models, but not dark. Every time I would talk about being a model with my friends, they would start laughing out loud"
"I was so ashamed of it that I would spend hours in the shower crying and trying to wash my skin off"
"Self-love is not something that you get in one day or two days. It’s an ongoing process and I go through it every day."
"I really want to be an inspiration for young girls,” she said. “I don’t want anybody to feel the way I felt when I was younger"
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.