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"Many times, we do things, but we don't realize how many people we touch. Reflect on this question, “Who will cry when you die?”"
"If you know who you are as a person, that's the beginning of getting what you want in life."
"The greatest injustice facing Africa is the failure of the education system to empower our people as leaders."
"Your background doesn't shape your destiny. You have the power to design the future you want."
"Africa has positive stories to tell the world. We need to document those stories."
"How far you go into the world is determined by your attitude."
"You can't lead unless you know other people around you. You can't lead unless you know who you are."
"Leadership is like a candle. One can light many without losing its glow, but together they create more light."
"Everyone has their own baggage, but we can't bring our baggage to the table as leaders."
"If I had proper guidance, support networks and self belief, my journey would have been simpler and better."
"When you have a candle in your hand and light another person’s candle, yours will never loss its glow but together you will have better light and heat"
"I was born a village girl, but I did not become a village woman"
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.