Social Cause India
“We want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease” declared Sarojini Naidu.
13th February is celebrated in India as the birth anniversary of Sarojini Naidu, the Nightingale of India.
Naidu was born on 13 February 1879 in Hyderabad to scientist and philosopher Aghornath Chattopadhyaya and Barada Sundari Devi.
A poet and a staunch activist in India’s freedom movement, she became the first Indian woman President of the Indian National Congress. Naidu was also the first woman Governor of the United Province, which is now known as Uttar Pradesh.
“Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.” ~ Sarojini Naidu
“Once in the dream of a night I stood
Lone in the light of a magical wood,
Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang;
And spirits of Truth were the birds that sang,
And spirits of Love were the stars that glowed,
And spirits of Peace were the streams that flowed
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.” ~ Sarojini Naidu