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5 unusual facts about Sarojini Naidu


Charles Keeler

In 1910 he took a worldwide poetry reading tour; he read before Queen Liliuokalani in Hawaii and the Emperor of Japan, and was a house guest of the Hindu poet Sarojini Naidu in Hyderabad, India.

In the Bazaars of Hyderabad

"In The Bazaars of Hyderabad" is a 19th-century English poem written by Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949) (also known as The Nightingale of India), an Indian independence activist and a poet from Hyderabad, India.

Indian poetry in English

A significant and torch-bearer poet is Nissim Ezekiel and the significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo.

Sandip Chakrabarti

His mother Renuka Chakrabarti is the granddaughter of the sister of Aghornath Chattopadhyay, father of Ms. Sarojini Naidu Sarojini Naidu, a freedom fighter and first governor of UP after independence.

Topiwala National Medical College and Nair Hospital

Through a donation by M.N. Desai Topiwala the college was upgraded in 1946 and was inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi and Sarojini Naidu.


Mahavarat Vidyalankar

His house, known as "Dayal Vas" named after his father Har Dayal Singh Saini was known to be the hub and hiding placed of many prominent Indian Freedom Fighters such as Sheel Bhadra Yajee, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Sarojini Naidu, Mahavir Tyagi, and many I.N.A heroes such as Dhillon and Sehgal.

Pogose School

Among them are Chief Ministers Profullah Chandra Ghosh (of West Bengal) and Ataur Rahman Khan (of East Bengal), as well as first Bengali doctorate Nishikanto Chatterjee and the first Indian Doctor of Science Aghornath Chatterjee, who was the father of Sarojini Naidu.

Sarojini Nagar

Named after the famous woman freedom fighter Sarojini Naidu, this colony is encircled by Safdarjung Enclave, South Extension, Laxmibai Nagar, Nauroji Nagar, Chanakyapuri and Netaji Nagar.

Vedanta Kesari

Its contributors include John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon, the Englishman known for pioneering work in Tantra studies), Mahatma Gandhi, Sarojini Naidu, C. Rajagopalachari (the first Governor General of Independent India), T.L. Vaswani (the founder of Vaswani Mission, Pune), K.M. Munshi (the founder of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan), Dr Karan Singh, H.H.Dalai Lama and Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.


see also

Sarojini Naidu College for Women

Sarojini Naidu College for Women, established in 1956, is the women's college in Dum Dum, Kolkata.