The
Nightingale of India Sarojini Naidu is the subject of Tuesday's doodle on the
Google India homepage.
Sarojini
Naidu was born as Sarojini Chattopadhyaya in Hyderabad in 1879, the eldest of
eight siblings, and was considered a child prodigy. Her parents were luminaries
in their own fields, with her father a respected doctor who founded the
Hyderabad College (later named Nizam's College), and her mother an acclaimed
Bengali poet. Sarojini Naidu passed her Matriculation examination from the
University of Madras, and went on to complete her education in England, first
at King's College London and later at Girton College, Cambridge.
Apart
from her contributions to the Indian independence and suffragette movement,
Naidu was also famous for her literary career. She began writing at the age of
13, and her first collection of poems, The Golden Threshold, was published in
1905.
The
Google doodle marking Sarojini Naidu's birth anniversary is a simple image
(seen above) featuring a portrait of Naidu in place of the second 'o' of the
Google logo, and a symbolic blue umbrella in place of the 'l'. The image
features mouse-over text, which says 'Sarojini Naidu's 135 birthday'.
The
search giant has chosen to honour Sarojini Naidu with a doodle for obvious
reasons, not in the least because of her importance in the history of the
Indian independence movement. Naidu contributed to the framing of the Indian
Constitution, and was also famously the first Governor of the United Provinces,
the first woman to be named the governor of an Indian state, and the first
woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress.
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