Sarojini Naidu 135th Birthday (in 2014) was marked by a doodle on Google India's Homepage.

Sarojini Naidu 135th Birthday (in 2014) was marked by a doodle on Google India's Homepage


                                                   













 







Sarojini Naidu, born as Sarojini Chattopadhyay (Bengali: সরোজিনী চট্টোপাধ্যায়) also known by the sobriquet as The Nightingale of India, was a child prodigy, Indian independence activist and poet. Naidu served as the first governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949; the first woman to become the governor of an Indian state. She was the second woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress in 1925 and the first Indian woman to do so

Naidu joined the Indian national movement in the wake of partition of Bengal in 1905. She came into contact with Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Rabindranath Tagore, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Annie Besant, C. P. Ramaswami Iyer, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.


In 1925, Naidu presided over the annual session of Indian National Congress at Cawnpore(now Kanpur).
In 1929, she presided over East African Indian Congress in South Africa. She was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal by the British government for her work during the plague epidemic in India.
In 1931, she participated in the Round table conference with Gandhi and Madan Mohan Malaviya.
She played a leading role during the Civil Disobedience Movement and was jailed along with Gandhi and other leaders. In 1942, she was arrested during the "Quit India" movement.

Naidu began writing at the age of thirteen. Her Persian play, Maher Muneer, impressed the Nawab of Hyderabad.
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.
Her collection of poems entitled "The Feather of The Dawn" was edited and published posthumously in 1961 by her daughter Padamaja.
Naidu died of a heart attack while working in her office in Lucknow on March 2, 1949.

She is commemorated through the naming of several institutions including the Sarojini Naidu College for Women, Sarojini Naidu Medical College, Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital and Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad.



The Golden Threshold is the name of one of the central building on the University of Hyderabad's campus. The building was the residence of Naidu's father Aghornath Chattopadhyay, the first Principal of Hyderabad College. It was named after Naidu's collection of poetry. Golden Threshold now houses Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication of University of Hyderabad.
During the Chattopadhyay family's residence, it was the center of many reformist ideas in Hyderabad, in areas ranging from marriage, education, women’s empowerment, literature and nationalism.


^{famous poems of sarojini naidu}

• Damayante to Nala in the Hour of Exile
• Ecstasy
• Indian Dancers
• The Indian
• Indian Love-Song
• Indian Weavers
• In Salutation to the Eternal Peace
• In the Forest
• In the Bazaars of Hyderabad( Refer to English textbook of 9th std ICSE board)
• Ramamuratham
• Nightfall in the City of Hyderabad
• Palanquin Bearers
• The Pardah Nashin
• Past and Future
• The Queen's Rival
• The Royal Tombs of Golconda
• The Snake-Charmer
• Song of a Dream
• Song of Radha,the milkmaid
• The Soul's Prayer
• Suttee
• To a Buddha Seated on a Lotus
• To the God of Pain
• Wandering Singers
• Street Cries
• Alabaster
• Autumn Song
• Bangle Sellers
• The Coromandel Fishers
• To youth