Soon after her return she again had to go abroad with her daughter Padamja to S. Africa to preside over East African Congress in 1929.Meanwhile Congress session was scheduled to be held in the month of December. Jawahar Lal Nehru was nominated to be its president.Sarojini wrote to him—My dear Jawahar,I think tomorrow your father […]
After 1924 Belgam Congress Session every Congressman felt that Sarojini could no more be denied the presidentship of the Congress. The next session held in Kanpur was presided over by Sarojini Naidu as wished by all. Gandhi proposed her name. The representatives of S. African Congress presented her a picture of her own.Sarojini said—‘Friends! I
In December, 1919 Montague-Chemsford suggested reforms were made into a law through an ordnance. It rocked the country and gave birth to ‘Khilafat’ movement.The colonial rulers made up their minds to crush the movement by giving sweeping powers to the police.A committee was formed under Justice Rawlett which suggested some draconian measures. The British got
Sarojini was a very forceful erudite woman. She never hesitated to call spade a spade. Her judgements were based on strictly secular ideals.The poetess never discriminated between Hindus and Muslims or men and women.In 1916 Muslim League convention was held in Lucknow. Sarojini was invited to speak at the inaugural meeting.She fearlessly spoke, ‘For one
‘When animosity, terror and violent explosions will cease,And the life will be reborn, on the eve of new peace,Your affection will express thanks in memories,Of those comrades who fought in your fearless ranks,And you will honour the valour in immortal sons,At that hour remember the blood of my martyr sons’.Sarojini Naidu’s political innings had in
Sarojini’s return to home was not all joy. She found that her father Dr. Aghornath Chattopadhyaya was seriously ill. She rushed to Calcutta to be by the side of his bed.Dr. Chattopadhyaya passed away in the month of February, 1915.It was such a grave loss that nothing could fill it up for her. The poetess
Sarojini Naidu considered the famous educationist and the social reformer Gopal Krishna Gokhale her political guru and who also was pioneering leader of the Congress party. He was the one who introduced Mahatma Gandhi to Indian freedom politics.Sarojini also considered him her primary guru, inspirer and guide.Sarojini delivered her first public speech in 1902. The
As a kid Sarojini had been a very imaginative, sentimental and day dreaming girl.Her father wanted her to become a doctor or a mathematician or scientist. But events shaped her into a poetess. There was a poetess inside her all the time which made her a day dreamer. But her stint in England was the
‘Still I must go there,where the restless world points at.The anxious sounds of the drums of destiny,are calling me.Beyond the dazzling slumber of your white dome,Far away from the dreams of your wild castles,In the middle of the tumult and struggle of thefierce crowd,Against the injustice and lethargy,In the battle of the sweet love’.Sarojini was
Sarojini returned to India in September, 1898. She had earned no diploma or degree. But that was not her aim anyway. Her mission was to meet her destiny in Edmond Goss. And she did that.She was returning home an improved and focussed song writer. Her poems were no more amateurish. Her creative talents were well
As soon as Sarojini stepped into her teens in 1894 the budding poetess in her showed up.She wrote a poem titled ‘Love’. It revealed her youthful zeal for life. A dreamy teenager was declaring her commitment and paying tributes to true spontaneous natural love.This love and commitment remained ever her guiding principles of life.Her first
‘There is no birth and no death,Only the soul keeps seekingnew levels of truth,High, higher and still higher.Above words were articulated by the famed educationist Shri Aghornath Chattopadhyaya, the father of Sarojini Naidu, a prominent female figure who played a significant role in the freedom movement of India. So significant that if we scan any
Their crime was only that they wanted to free their country from the cruel clutches of colonial rulers. They would not breathe the air loaded with the foul smell of slavery. From a far off land aliens had descended on India and usurped the power through superior force and trickery. They were now deciding who
23rd March, 1931 was a black day.On that day the barbaric colonial rulers hanged three precious sons of India namely Sardar Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev for the revenge killing of Sanders whose lathi blows had felled Lala Lajpatrai in Lahore.The people were shocked and plunged in grief.For Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi it was simply devastation.
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi was truly a progressive liberal person.There was no place for communalism and narrow mindedness of any kind in the world of Vidyarthi. Caste, creed, religion or gender were of no consideration to him. He knew that the key to the success of India lay in all the Indians standing together as one
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