Who is Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu (née Chattopadhyay; 13 February 1879 – 2 March 1949) was an Indian political activist, feminist and poet. A proponent of civil rights, women's emancipation, and anti-imperialistic ideas, she was an important person in India's struggle for independence from colonial rule. She was also the first Indian woman to be president of the Indian National Congress and to be appointed as governor of an Indian state (United Provinces).

Naidu's literary work as a poet earned her the sobriquet the “Nightingale of India”, or “Bharat Kokila” by Mahatma Gandhi because of colour, imagery and lyrical quality of her poetry.Born in a Bengali family in Hyderabad, Chattopadhyay was educated in Madras, London and Cambridge. Following her time in England, where she worked as a suf...
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Sarojini Naidu Poems

• Leili
  The serpents are asleep among the poppies,
  The fireflies light the soundless panther's way
  To tangled paths where shy gazelles are straying,
  And parrot-plumes outshine the dying day. ...
• Corn Grinders
  O little mouse, why dost thou cry
  While merry stars laugh in the sky?
  
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• In Salutation To The Eternal Peace
  Men say the world is full of fear and hate,
  And all life's ripening harvest-fields await
  The restless sickle of relentless fate.
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• The Royal Tombs Of Golconda
  I MUSE among these silent fanes
  Whose spacious darkness guards your dust;
  Around me sleep the hoary plains
  That hold your ancient wars in trust. ...
• To India
  O YOUNG through all thy immemorial years!
  Rise, Mother, rise, regenerate from thy gloom,
  And, like a bride high-mated with the spheres,
  Beget new glories from thine ageless womb! ...

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• Dileepchakky: the second round table conference was held in london from september 7, 1931 to december 1, 1931. the indian national congress nominated mahatma gandhi as its sole representative. a. rangaswami iyengar, sarojini naidu, annie besant and madan mohan malaviya were also there.
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