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"On our legacies because we were their role models. We did not bring the trophy home but that (qualifying for the Olympics) was a trophy for us."
"The idea was to leave a legacy behind. We prayed and worked extremely hard in training."
"We told ourselves that we were not just Nigerians but Africans and that we wanted to make the continent proud."
"For me, there was no substitute for working hard on my own, long after training."
"“I feel blessed to have been the first woman to win this award back then in 1999.""
"I am excited that other Nigerians have done it again and I hope that we will see more of this in future."
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.