Sarojini Naidu was an Indian political activist, poet, and writer. She was also known as the “Nightingale of India” due to her poetry, which celebrated Indian independence and freedom. She was born on 13th February 1879 in Hyderabad in a Bengali family. On this day, February 13th, India celebrates Sarojini Naidu’s birthday as National Women’s Day of India every year. Sarojini Naidu was India’s first women governor and also famous as ‘Bharat Kokila’.
She was a prominent figure in India’s struggle for independence and was the first woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress. She played a key role in the Indian independence movement and worked alongside other prominent figures like Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. She was a prime figure in the National Movement of India where she started following Mahatma Gandhi. Naidu is known for her poems on patriotism, love and death. Title of ‘Nightingale of India’ was for her work in poetry.
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Sarojini was also a part of politics when she joined Indian Congress party and got appointed as the Governor of United Provinces.
Quotes by Sarojini Naidu
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
A country’s greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race.
To quench my longing I bent me low by the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow in that magical wood in the land of sleep.
One needs a Seer’s Vision and an Angel’s voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.
My heart is very weary and sad and alone, For its dreams like the fluttering leaves have gone, And why should I say behind.
Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.
Sense of justice is one of the ideals Islam, because as I read Quran I find those dynamic principles of life not mystic but practical ethics for the daily conduct of life suited to the whole world.
Shall hope prevail where clamorous hate is rite.
My husband is exceedingly busy. For some time the talk of his going had been slack, but just now again there seems to be a move to get him sent to the front!
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The new has come and now the old retires. And so the past becomes a mountain cell. Where lone apart old hermit memories dwell.
In consecrated calm, forgotten yet. Of the keen heart that hastens to forget old longings in fulfilling new desires.
Hark to a voice that is calling, to my heart in the voice of the mind.
I am not ready to die because it requires infinitely greater courage to live.
