Sarojini Naidu was a poet, renowned freedom fighter and one of the great speakers of her time. She was famously known as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India). Here is something which is all about her
1) Sarojini Naidu was born on Feb. 13, 1879 in Hyderabad and died on March 2, 1949, in Lucknow.
2) Sarojini Naidu was born to Aghore Nath Chattopadhyay and Barada Sundari Devi on 13 February 1879. Her parental home was at Brahmangaon in Bikrampur, Bangladesh.
3) Dr. Aghornath Chattopadhyay, father of Sarojini Naidu, was the founder principal of the Nizam College, Hyderabad.
4) She attained national fame for entering Madras University at the age of twelve. She joined the Indian Independence Movement, in the wake of the aftermath of partition of Bengal in 1905.
5) Sarojini Naidu began writing at the age of twelve. Her Persian play, Maher Muneer, impressed the Nawab of Hyderabad.
6)In 1905, her first collection of poems, named "The Golden Threshold" was published Her poems were admired by many prominent Indian politicians like Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
7)Sarojini Naidu met Govindarajulu Naidu, A doctor by profession, and at the age of 19, after finishing her studies, she married him. At that time, Inter-caste marriage were not allowed, but her father approved the marriage.
8) In 1925 she was elected as the President of the Congress, the first Indian woman to hold the post. She raised the issues of welfare of youth, dignity of labour, women's freedom and nationalism.
9)Sarojini Naidu served as the first governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (Now Uttar Pradesh) from 1947 to 1949, the first woman to become the governor of an Indian state.
10)Sarojini Naidu died of a heart attack while working in her office in Lucknow on 2 March (Wednesday), 1949
2) Sarojini Naidu was born to Aghore Nath Chattopadhyay and Barada Sundari Devi on 13 February 1879. Her parental home was at Brahmangaon in Bikrampur, Bangladesh.
3) Dr. Aghornath Chattopadhyay, father of Sarojini Naidu, was the founder principal of the Nizam College, Hyderabad.
4) She attained national fame for entering Madras University at the age of twelve. She joined the Indian Independence Movement, in the wake of the aftermath of partition of Bengal in 1905.
5) Sarojini Naidu began writing at the age of twelve. Her Persian play, Maher Muneer, impressed the Nawab of Hyderabad.
6)In 1905, her first collection of poems, named "The Golden Threshold" was published Her poems were admired by many prominent Indian politicians like Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
7)Sarojini Naidu met Govindarajulu Naidu, A doctor by profession, and at the age of 19, after finishing her studies, she married him. At that time, Inter-caste marriage were not allowed, but her father approved the marriage.
8) In 1925 she was elected as the President of the Congress, the first Indian woman to hold the post. She raised the issues of welfare of youth, dignity of labour, women's freedom and nationalism.
9)Sarojini Naidu served as the first governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (Now Uttar Pradesh) from 1947 to 1949, the first woman to become the governor of an Indian state.
10)Sarojini Naidu died of a heart attack while working in her office in Lucknow on 2 March (Wednesday), 1949
