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National Women’s Day in India Celebrated On Feb 13
- In India, the National Women’s Day is observed every year on 13 February.
Purpose :
- To mark the birth anniversary of Sarojini Naidu, who is also popularly known as ‘The nightingale of India.
About Sarojini Naidu :
- Born in Hyderabad, Sarojini Naidu belonged to a Bengali Brahmin family with her ancestral roots in Bangladesh.
- Aghorenath Chattopadhyay was the principal of Nizam’s College with a doctorate of Science from Edinburgh University.
- The political activist and poet was garnered with the title ‘the Nightingale of India’, or ‘Bharat Kokila’ by Mahatma Gandhi because of colour, imagery, and lyrical quality of her poetry.
- In 1925, Sarojini Naidu was appointed as the first woman President of the Indian National Congress and later the first woman to be a governor of a state.
- She was appointed as the governor of the United Provinces, known as Uttar Pradesh today.
- A proponent of civil rights, women’s emancipation, and anti-imperialistic ideas, she was an important figure in India’s struggle for independence from colonial rule.
