Sarojini Naidu, Role, Contribution, Writings

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National Women’s Day is observed annually in India on February 13th to commemorate the birth anniversary of Sarojini Naidu.

Sarojini Naidu was born on February 13, 1879, in Hyderabad.
She was a renowned Indian poet, freedom fighter, and politician.
She was famously known as the “Nightingale of India” for her lyrical poetry, she contributed significantly to India’s independence movement.

She took part in the Congress session in Bombay in 1904. Thereafter, she made associations with Gokhale, Tagore, Annie Besant, Gandhi, and Nehru.
She went on to become the first Indian women to preside Indian National Congress in 1925 at its 40th session, Kanpur.
Naidu was involved in Non-cooperation movement, Home Rule movement, Salt Satyagraha.
In 1917 she headed the All-India Women’s Deputation and championed women’s suffrage before E. S. Montagu (Secretary of State for India).
In the same year, she along with Annie Besant and others set up the Women’s India Association.

She was appointed to the Constituent Assembly from Bihar. She spoke about the importance of adopting a national flag in the Assembly.
Naidu was appointed as the Governor of Uttar Pradesh from 15th August 1947.

Her published poems include Songs; The Golden Threshold, Bird of Time, The Broken Wing, and The Feather of the Dawn.
Additionally, she authored Mahatma Gandhi: His Life, Writings and Speeches and Words of Freedom: Ideas of a Nation.