Indian Stamp On Sarojini Naidu

 

Sarojini Naidu better known as “Nightingale Of India” was born this day in 1879.Today’s Stamp for the day is the Stamp released with portrait of Sarojini Naidu In 1964

Sarojini Naidu was born on this day February 13 , 1879 in Hyderabad. Her father, Dr. Aghornath Chattopadhyaya was a scientist, philosopher, and educator. He founded the Nizam College of Hyderabad. Her mother, Varada Sundari Devi was a Bengali poetess. Dr. Aghornath Chattopadhyaya was the first member of the Indian National Congress in Hyderabad. For his socio-political activities, Aghornath was dismissed from his position as Principal.

Since childhood, Sarojini was a very bright and intelligent child. Though Aghornath wanted his daughter to become a mathematician or scientist, young Sarojini was fond of poetry. At an early age, she wrote a "thirteen-hundred-lines" long poem "The Lady of the Lake". Impressed with her skills of expressing things with appropriate words, Aghornath Chattopadhyaya encouraged her works. Few months later, Sarojini, with assistance from her father, wrote the play "Maher Muneer" in the Persian language

Sarojini Naidu was the first woman Governor of Uttar Pradesh. Her chairmanship of the Asian Relations Conference in 1947 was highly-appraised. Two years later, on 02 March 1949, Sarojini Naidu died at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

 

First Day Cover Of The Indian Stamp of Sarojini Naidu

Block Of Four Of The Stamp Of Sarojini Naidu

Geo Tag For Stamp Sarojini Naidu Showing Birth Place