New Delhi: Google is commemorating ‘The Nightingale of India’ Sarojini Naidu wih an artistic Google Doodle that rightfully depicts the child prodigy. Marking the 135th birth anniversary of one the framers of what we now know as the Indian Constitution, Google has, as usual, symbolically designed the Doodle keeping her contributions in mind.
Naidu was born in Hyderabad to Aghore Nath Chattopadhyay and Barada Sundari Debi on 13 February 1879. Her father was a doctor of Science from Edinburgh University, settled in Hyderabad State, where he found and administered the Hyderabad College, which later became the Nizam’s College in Hyderabad.
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
During 1915-1918, she travelled to different regions in India delivering lectures on social welfare, women’s empowerment and nationalism.
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 died of a heart attack while working in her office in Lucknow on March 2, 1949.
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.
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