Sarojini Naidu was a very jolly person by nature. She loved calling names to Gandhiji with affection without forfeiting the reverence. She would call him ‘Micky Mouse’ or ‘Dwarf’ or ‘Little man’. Sometimes she would say that Gandhiji was her Krishna and she was his humble flute.
About Jawaharlal she once said, ‘Prime Ministers come and go. But there is only one Jawaharlal. He is always trying to go to the stars to bring back hope, the message of courage and the treasure of the soul, that is freedom.’
In February, 1949 Sarojini Naidu came to Delhi to meet the then Governor General C. Rajgopalachari. While being driven to Rashtrapati Bhavan her head accidentally hit the roof of the car.
It proved fatal.
On 18th February she felt difficulty in breathing and was given oxygen.
Her condition deteriorated.
On 1 March, 1949 she asked her nurse to sing a song. While listening to the song she looked drowsy. She was dozing.
She muttered to her nurse, ‘I want no one talking to me’.
Those happened to be her last words.
On 2nd March, 1949 at 3.30 a.m. she breathed her last. She was given a state funeral on the bank of Gomti river at Lucknow.
The singer of the freedom songs departed but she left behind a rich legacy of songs for us to remember her by. And her poems are the part of our literary treasure.
Sarojini Naidu’s birthday 13th February is celebrated every year in India as ‘Women’s day’.
And sometimes around the same day falls Valentine day, a real tribute to a poetess.
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