THE NIGHTINGALE OF INDIA

Sarojini Naidu is called “Nightingale of India” as she wrote different types of poems and her birthday is celebrated as “National Women’s day” in India. She was a great leader and one of the followers of Mahatma Gandhi. In the year of 1879, on 13th February Sarojini Naidu (Chattopadhyay) was born in the Bengali family in Hyderabad.

Her father, Aghorenath Chattopadhyay was a principle of Hyderabad’s Nizam College and her mother, Barada Sundari Devi Chattopadhyay was "Bengali poet". She completed her studies from Universities of Madras after that she went to London’s King College and later to Girton College in Cambridge. She did inter-caste marriage with the physician Paidipati Govindarajulu Naidu.

At an early age, she joined the Indian independence movement and came in contact with Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Mahatma Gandhi, and Rabindranath Tagore. After that, she helped with the establishment of the Women’s Indian Association in 1917.

She took part in the “Quit India movement”, “Satyagraha movement”. Naidu was the first Indian woman who presided over Indian National Congress’s Kanpur session after Annie Besant. She also became the first female Governor of Uttar Pradesh. At the age of 70, she died due to "cardiac arrest".