Thursday, 13 February 2014

Sarojini Naidu: The first woman to become the governor of an Indian state - IBNLive




New Delhi: Paying a tribute to Sarojini Naidu on his 135th birtday, Google India has posted a doodle on its homepage. Sarojini Naidu was the first Indian woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress and the first woman to become governor of Uttar Pradesh.


She began writing at the age of 13. Known as the Nightingale of India, she eulogised India in her poems published in three collections, The Golden Threshold (1905), The Bird of Time (1912) and the Broken Wing (1917). Pained by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919, she stopped writing poetry.


Her collection of poems entitled "The Feather of The Dawn" was later edited and published after her death in 1961 by her daughter Padamaja.



Sarojini Naidu: The first woman to become the governor of an Indian state


She began writing at the age of 13. Known as the Nightingale of India, she eulogised India in her poems published in three collections.



Born as Sarojini Chattopadhyaya on February 13, 1879 in Hyderabad she received her higher education from King's College London and later at Girton College, Cambridge.


She married Govindarajulu Naidu, a doctor by profession, when she was 19 and the couple had five children.


Sarojini Naidu died of a heart attack on March 2, 1949.







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