Sarojini Naidu

The Nightingale of India, Sarojini Naidu lived during the epoch of the Indian resurrection which received a fresh impetus during the Gandhian age. This period also called the period of Indian resurgence witnessed a major shamble in the political, social and economic realms. There was an arousing among several sections of society which included women, the youth and the tyrannized classes. All of them had suffered greatly under the pressure of traditional authority. That was the time for burgeoning of romantic poetry and numerous poets and writers instigated to contribute to the literary progress of the era. Sarojini Naidu spontaneously expressed her aspirations and twinges in her inscriptions. Poetry came to her as an innate bequest and was…

One of the prominent leaders of the organisation was Sarojini Naidu. The mandate of the women’s groups was to get freedom from restrictive customs that would allow them to contribute to the regeneration of India. Sarojini Naidu with other women leaders worked against the customs that posed challenges to women’s development and worked towards changing the legal framework that affected women’s lives. During the same time, there was huge outrage against the colonial rule and the wave of nationalism…

understanding of the Indian identity, and to define the new nation not merely in terms of geographical boundaries or historical contexts of tradition and roots but also to account for new political, social and gender power structures. This understanding of the Indian identity as it emerges in the discourse of women calls for re-formulations of selves and re¬negotiations of centres and margins. As we turn to the writings of women in the 1940s and 1950s, we find that they are freed from the…

the previously unmanned crusade for the nonviolent liberation from the chains of British oppression, to turn into a plethora of powerfully encouraging voices. Thus, the campaign for freedom, formerly slighted due to its untraditional peaceable methods, gained momentum with the prolific impetus behind it. Stage 3: Bureaucratization The burdens of leadership proved taxing, as Gandhi was arrested a month later on May 5th. This however, did nothing to discontinue the fight for autonomy,…

She started to write poetry at that time when personal experiences took the place of colonial and nationalist themes in English poetry by Indian women. After the soft and soothing strains of Toru Dutt and Sarojini Naidu, the offensive individualism of Kamala Das appears as a shock. She is considered as a subjective poet and her poems are “products of uncontrolled emotions”. She was always in search for the perfect masculine being and each encounterwith the male-the husband or the lover in…

form of a march on the Dharasana salt works and nationwide acts against the tax itself. Gandhi wrote, “If, therefore, you cannot see your way to remove the Salt Tax and remove the prohibitions on private salt-making I must reluctantly commence the march...”(mkgandhi.org) Before the march could be carried out Gandhi was arrested, in the late night of May 4. Abbas Tyabji, took his place, however was later arrested also. Then on May 21, the female poet, Sarojini Naidu, lead the group of over two…

deposits that resulted from the high tide in mud. Gandhi broke British law when he picked up a small lump of natural salt out of the mud. Thousands more supporters followed his lead, and Indian nationalists in Bombay and Karachi led crowds of citizens in making salt. Millions of Indians soon used this method to retrieve the salt they needed. This caused civil disobedience to circulate throughout India. British authorities arrested more than 60,000 people for the duration of this peaceful…

peculiar to their conditions were studied by Vandana Shiva (especially in Staying Alive, 1988), and Guha and Juan Martinez-Alier (Varieties of Environmentalism, 1998). However, the glory of nature writing in Indian English began with Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. He adorned and adopted nature as his primary love on the foot map of Rousseau and William Wordsworth. He was a poet of river, seasons, flowers, bees, etc. and did love both the softer-side as well as the harsher one. He borrowed almost…