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"I failed early and I failed often. This is one of the secrets of success, Failure is the best mentor, because humans tend to move on if they do not fail, as if there is nothing more to explore."
"I graduated high school with a GPA of 2.3. I was not getting into a top university with this score and I was forced to rethink and reexamine my choices."
"I had to create my own ideas, and those were created by success as well as misfires. I am not afraid of change, rather embrace it. Change means growth."
"I feel that STEM is the great democratizer. I credit my engineering degree to my ability to embrace analytical thinking as a skill and apply it to problems and turn that into an enterprise that has made me who I am today."
"Things like that do not happen to those who are perfect, but rather to those who are persistent, confident, and move with purpose."
"Although my concept of balance in life might not align with what people perceive – as I think it varies according to the stage of life – nevertheless I believe it is very important for one to reinforce positive ideas each day, and this is what I do every morning for an hour early in the morning."
"So yes, inspiration goes both ways, and mentorship of girls and women really matters; it turns them into successful people."
"I know what it feels to be hungry, broke, or scared. I knew these feelings earlier on; I learned to build on my feelings to create a space of growth and success."
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.