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2. Sarojini Naidu was a noted freedom fighter and an activist. Do you think her
political ideas and activities can be seen reflected in the message conveyed
through this poem? Why or why not? Also, discuss how these ideas impact
your everyday life.
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Sarojini Naidu, a prominent member of the Indian National Congress, was the first female Indian governer and was also known as the Nightingale of India.
Sarojini Naidu, Agakhan Place detention camp, Women Pioneers in Indias Renaissance, Indian political activist, The Golden Threshold, Mahatma Gandhi
Sarojini Naidu was the first woman president of the Indian National Congress
Sarojini Naidu was born on February 13, 1879 and played a major part in the Independence Movement. Apart from being a political activist, she was a renowned poet and lyricist, and was affectionately known as the Nightingale of India. She wrote children's poems, but also wrote on more serious themes like patriotism, romance and tragedy.
Sushila Nayar, an Indian political activist, wrote about her encounter with Sarojini Naidu during imprisonment in Agakhan Place detention camp, in the book Women Pioneers in India's Renaissance.
She described Naidu as "a born poet, with great felicity in the English language." Several collections of her poems like 'The Golden Threshold', 'The Bird of Time' and the 'The Broken Wing' received great critical acclaim and rave reviews all over England.
Her great poems and lyrical abilities urged Mahatma Gandhi to give her the title of the Nightingale of India.
Sarojini Naidu's stay in Agakhan Place detention camp
Sushila Nayar arrived at the detention camp and her first interaction with Sarojini Naidu was when she offered Nayar a simple meal of buttered bread, which was later decribed by Nayar as the most delicious thing she had ever eaten.
Naidu had a daily routine of setting the dinner table in the detention camp and making sure everyone was properly fed. She would later bathe and change her clothes, and sit in the verandah overlooking the garden so she could admire the blossoms.
"It's necessary to have a daily routine. It helps you to keep up your morale," Naidu used to say to Nayar during her stay at the detention camp.
During her 21 month stay at the detenstion camp, Naidu developed a good relationship with Mahatma Gandhi, and often called him "Mickey Mouse".
Naidu's first encounter with Mahatma Gandhi
Sarojini Naidu had first met Gandhi in London in 1914, while he was in the middle of his evening meal and at that sight, she had made a face so irreverent that it made Gandhi laugh. She later described the first meeting in her own way.
She said," A little man with a shaven head, seated on the floor on a black prison blanket, eating a messy meal of squashed tomatoes and olive oil out of a wooden prison bowl. Around this were ranged some battered tins of parched groundnuts and tasteless biscuits of dried plaintain flour. I burst instinctively into laughter at the amusing and unexpected vision of a famous leader, whose name has already become a household word in our country."
During this meeting, Mahatma Gandhi had also offered Naidu to share the meal with him and she had politely declined.
Sarojini Naidu's first guru
Naidu had been associated with Congress even before Gandhi had appeared in the scene in India. She was one of the most prominent leaders in India at the time and later on became the first woman president of Indian Nationalt Congress.
Her first guru was Gopal Krishna Gokhale who had encouraged her to fight for the country and ignited the fire of patriotism in her.
He had once told her,"Stand here with me with stars and hills and witness and in their presence consecrate your life and your talent, your song and your speech, your thought and your breath, to the motherland."
Sarojini Naidu passed away on March 2, 1949 due cardiac arrest at the Government House in Lucknow.
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