Question

pains and hardships faced by sarojini naidu

Answer 1

Sarojini Naidu was a freedom fighter and poet of modern India. She is also known as the 'Nightingale of India'. She was the first person who joined the Non-Cooperation Movement started by Mahatma Gandhi. In 1930 when Gandhi ji was arrested after the Salt March to Dandi she led the Dharasana Satyagraha with other leaders. She was arrested and sent to prison in 1930, 1932, and 1942 due to her political activities. In 1942 she had to suffer the pains and hardships of imprisonment for 21 months.

Answer 2

Sarojini Naidu gave up her passion of writing poems to dedicate herself fulltime to various activities such as women emancipation and Hindu-Muslim unity to mention just two. These activities targeted at the development of the country. In 1930, when Mahatma Gandhi was arrested on account of organizing the Salt Satyagraha, she followed his instructions and led a team of nearly 2,000 people under the hot sun. She had to face the wrath of the British cops who encountered them with rifles, steel tipped clubs and lathis. This even led to her arrest for the first time. Sarojini Naidu was also arrested during the Quit India Movement in 1942.