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"Not to be arrogant, but I know I’ve got the qualities to have made it my tournament."
"I’m the last one to shout for it being the same game as the men’s game because I think the money in the men’s game is absolutely ridiculous and I don’t think we should ever want to get there."
"The beautiful and pure thing about women’s football is that the motivations and the happiness lies more in the team working well."
"I will never say that I want women’s football to be exactly the same as men’s football."
"The great thing is that women’s football is still very emotional and pure. There is much less hatred in many areas."
"I hope it grows [but] then you probably end up in a difficult situation sometimes. That is part of growth and you have to deal with it well."
"I also want to show children that you can do more than one thing, more than just being a footballer."
"If you’re in a position to speak up, to raise issues, I think you should."
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.