{"id":30174,"date":"2025-02-16T06:26:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T00:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30174"},"modified":"2025-04-10T08:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T03:05:48","slug":"sarojini-naidu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sarojini-naidu\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarojini Naidu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sarojini Naidu Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>National Women&#8217;s Day is observed annually in India on February 13th to commemorate the birth anniversary of Sarojini Naidu.<\/p>\n<h2>About Sarojini Naidu<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sarojini Naidu was born on February 13, 1879, in <strong>Hyderabad.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>She was a renowned Indian poet, freedom fighter, and politician.<\/li>\n<li>She was famously known as <strong>the &#8220;Nightingale of India&#8221;<\/strong> for her lyrical poetry, she contributed significantly to India&#8217;s independence movement.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Role of Sarojini Naidu in India\u2019s Independence Movement<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>She took part in the <strong>Congress session in Bombay in 1904<\/strong>. Thereafter, she made associations with Gokhale, Tagore, Annie Besant, Gandhi, and Nehru.<\/li>\n<li>She went on to become the <strong>first Indian women <\/strong>to preside <strong>Indian National Congress <\/strong>in 1925 at its 40th session<strong>, Kanpur.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Naidu was involved in <strong>Non-cooperation movement,<\/strong> Home Rule movement, Salt Satyagraha.<\/li>\n<li>In <strong>1917<\/strong> she headed the <strong>All-India Women\u2019s Deputation<\/strong> and championed women\u2019s suffrage before E. S. Montagu (Secretary of State for India).<\/li>\n<li>In the same year, she <strong>along with Annie Besant<\/strong> and others set up the <strong>Women\u2019s India Association.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Contribution of Sarojini Naidu to Constitution Making<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>She was appointed to the Constituent Assembly from <strong>Bihar<\/strong>. She spoke about the importance of adopting a national flag in the Assembly.<\/li>\n<li>Naidu was <strong>appointed as the Governor of Uttar Pradesh<\/strong> from 15th August 1947.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Writings of Sarojini Naidu<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Her published poems include Songs; <strong>The Golden Threshold<\/strong>, <strong>Bird of Time<\/strong>, The Broken Wing, and The Feather of the Dawn.<\/li>\n<li>Additionally, she authored <strong>Mahatma Gandhi: His Life<\/strong>, Writings and Speeches and Words of Freedom: Ideas of a Nation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Sarojini Naidu FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> What was Sarojini Naidu famous for?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> She was the first Indian woman to be president of the Indian National Congress and to be appointed an Indian state governor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2: <\/strong>What is the nickname of Sarojini Naidu?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Nightingale of India<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong> What was the role of Sarojini Naidu in the freedom struggle of India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> She was a close ally of Mahatma Gandhi and played a crucial role in the 1942 Quit India Movement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/india-news\/national-women-s-day-2025-history-significance-quotes-and-more-nc-125021300039_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarojini Naidu was famously known as the &#8220;Nightingale of India&#8221; for her lyrical poetry, she contributed significantly to India&#8217;s independence movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}