Sarojini Naidu considered the famous educationist and the social reformer Gopal Krishna Gokhale her political guru and who also was pioneering leader of the Congress party. He was the one who introduced Mahatma Gandhi to Indian freedom politics.Sarojini also considered him her primary guru, inspirer and guide.Sarojini delivered her first public speech in 1902. The […]
As a kid Sarojini had been a very imaginative, sentimental and day dreaming girl.Her father wanted her to become a doctor or a mathematician or scientist. But events shaped her into a poetess. There was a poetess inside her all the time which made her a day dreamer. But her stint in England was the
‘Still I must go there,where the restless world points at.The anxious sounds of the drums of destiny,are calling me.Beyond the dazzling slumber of your white dome,Far away from the dreams of your wild castles,In the middle of the tumult and struggle of thefierce crowd,Against the injustice and lethargy,In the battle of the sweet love’.Sarojini was
Sarojini returned to India in September, 1898. She had earned no diploma or degree. But that was not her aim anyway. Her mission was to meet her destiny in Edmond Goss. And she did that.She was returning home an improved and focussed song writer. Her poems were no more amateurish. Her creative talents were well
As soon as Sarojini stepped into her teens in 1894 the budding poetess in her showed up.She wrote a poem titled ‘Love’. It revealed her youthful zeal for life. A dreamy teenager was declaring her commitment and paying tributes to true spontaneous natural love.This love and commitment remained ever her guiding principles of life.Her first
‘There is no birth and no death,Only the soul keeps seekingnew levels of truth,High, higher and still higher.Above words were articulated by the famed educationist Shri Aghornath Chattopadhyaya, the father of Sarojini Naidu, a prominent female figure who played a significant role in the freedom movement of India. So significant that if we scan any
Their crime was only that they wanted to free their country from the cruel clutches of colonial rulers. They would not breathe the air loaded with the foul smell of slavery. From a far off land aliens had descended on India and usurped the power through superior force and trickery. They were now deciding who
23rd March, 1931 was a black day.On that day the barbaric colonial rulers hanged three precious sons of India namely Sardar Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev for the revenge killing of Sanders whose lathi blows had felled Lala Lajpatrai in Lahore.The people were shocked and plunged in grief.For Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi it was simply devastation.
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi was truly a progressive liberal person.There was no place for communalism and narrow mindedness of any kind in the world of Vidyarthi. Caste, creed, religion or gender were of no consideration to him. He knew that the key to the success of India lay in all the Indians standing together as one
Alongside politics, revolution and journalism Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi’s interest was also evolving in literature.He used to go to Chirgaon where the famous Hindi writer Babu Maithili Sharan Gupta lived for literary interaction.He would reveal to the writer his literary thoughts on Indian and foreign literature.He was greatly surprised when he was nominated as the president
In 1925 a Congress conference was organised at Kanpur with the help of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi. An industrialist of Kanpur Lala Chunnilal Garg was acquainted with Vidyarthi. He used the occasion and his familiarity with the Pratap editor to further his own political career.Chunnilal gave a dinner to all the delegates and earned some popularity
In the latter half of the second decade of the 20th century political and social conditions were changing fast. The British tyranny was scaling new heights.The patience of the natives was running out. The tolerance of the people was reaching the break limit fast. The political situation was at the flash point.On 18th March, 1919
Vidyarthi was a true idealist and dauntless battler against all kinds of injustice. Besides using pen in this respect he did not hesitate in physical intervention as well whenever required. He took it as his moral duty. The following incident a typical example.Once the annual fair of Bithoor was on. Thousands of people used to
Public speaking made Vidyarthi a respected and popular figure. As an editor he merely was an invisible phantom, a powerful mind. It had no face. But the public stage presented him to the people a figure with a charming face and sweet manners. Vidyarthi had a very pleasing personality which he was not conscious of.His
Some politically conscious people decided to put Kanpur on the political map of the country. A political conference was organised at Kanpur. Vidyarthi took active part in the effort. Pundit Iqbal Narain Guttu was nominated as the chairman of the meeting. Gokarnnath Mishra was invited to speak on the occasion. Mishra was a renowned orator.