- (13th February Sarojini Jayanti, National Women’s Day, English Language Day)
- Asnala Srinivas
Publicity Secretary
Telangana Gazetted Officers’ Association.(9652275560)
TGO NEWS (FEB. 13) : The country celebrates the birth anniversary of Sarojini Naidu, a multifaceted intellectual who stood out as a rare combination of cultural talent and scholarship on the battlefield of the freedom struggle, on February 13, as National Women’s Day. Sarojini Devi Naidu was born and raised in Telangana’s Sweda Soudham, Hyderabad. She became famous as the Cuckoo of India for her beautiful rural town, the beauty of coexistence of different communities, and the creation of emotional songs on nature. She participated in the history of the country as a nationalist leader and an inspiring orator. Sarojini, who was inspired by attending the 1904 Bombay Congress session, participated in the revolutionary struggle that erupted against the partition of Bengal and for the unity of Bengal and began her struggle. She worked on a par with top leaders like Gandhi, Nehru, Jinnah, and Gokhale. He participated in the struggle of the Champaran indigo farmers. From 1917 to 1919, she toured the country and awakened the people with her speeches on social justice and self-government.
In 1917, she founded the Bharatiya Mahila Sangh and worked responsibly to liberate women from the oppression being faced by them, to restore their self-respect and to provide justice as a right. He played a key role in the Lucknow Pact and worked for Hindu-Muslim unity. Speaking at the Lucknow meeting, he said, “Whose beliefs.. customs and affairs are theirs..let us all be united and drive out the English monsters.” Sarojini is credited with turning the slogan of Hindu Muslim Bhai Bhai into an exciting slogan of unity.
During the Civil Disobedience and Quit India Rowlatt Act Movement, she was arrested and spent 3 years in prison. After Gandhi’s arrest during the Salt Satyagraha, she led the movement with thousands of volunteers. In 1924, she was appointed as a diplomat for the Home Rule League movement. In 1925, she was elected as the first woman president of the Indian National Congress at the Kanpur Congress session. While delivering her presidential address, she said, “How can I stirr your hearts, how can I light an unquenchable fire, how can I burn our slavery, our disunity, our hunger, despair, and the brutal oppression being inflicted on us in an unquenchable fire?” At this conference, her historic speech, which was like a poetic and melodious song that captivated the hearts and thoughts of the listeners, increased the intensity of working with one voice to achieve hope. America, Canada, East Africa The Congress of the country held meetings.
Participated in the drafting of the Constitution and worked on the issue of special protections for women and the prohibition of untouchability in Article 17. She worked to approve the national flag, which embodies the Buddhist symbol of the country’s noble pluralistic heritage. Under the flag, there will be no distinction between king, farmer, rich, poor, woman and man. This belongs to all the people of the country. She declared in the Constituent Assembly. She served as the Governor of the largest state of Uttar Pradesh. While she chose the moderate path in the freedom movement, her sister Suhasini Chattopadhyay was the first woman to join the Communist Party and led the militant struggles. Another brother, Virendranath, chose the extremist path and became a companion of Lala Lajpati Roy, married a Mexican woman, Agnes Smedley, and organized revolutionary programs centered in America and Germany.
Along with Sarojini, her family members played a vital role in the national movement and the history of the Hyderabad State. Her parents, Aghoranadha Chattopadhyay and Varada Devi, were invited by the Nizam King from Bengal to expand education and establish women’s education centers. Her father worked as the principal of the Nizam College. Her mother founded a girls’ school in Nampally. Born on February 13, 1879 in Hyderabad, she completed her primary education and went to England for higher education. She married her classmate Gopal Naidu, whom she met there, with the help of Kandukuri Veeresalingam in Hyderabad.
Another younger brother, Harindranath, was a Communist Party activist, poet, and writer, writing many books and documenting all the struggles that took place during his time.
He wrote a long poem called Tales of Telangana. It was translated into Telugu by Arudra.
“Hey, common villager
In the volume of Itihasam,
Ignite, spread… Doddi Komurayya wrote a poem on immortality.
The most important and great service of Sarojini was that she assigned her children Dr. Jayasurya, Padmaja, Ranadheera, and Leela Mani to stand by the people of Hyderabad State against the exploitation and oppression and to protect their rights. All of them worked as public doctors and rights activists, and stood by the peasant struggles here with more vigor than their mothers and uncles. They were the helmsman of the civil rights movement. During the Telangana armed struggle against the royalist landlordism, they conducted a fact-finding investigation into the police repression of the villages of Aakunuru and Machi Reddy and mentioned it on national and international platforms. They provided legal aid to the fighters and contributed to the release of many people. He worked for the release of Nalla Narasimha, the last remaining firebrand who had threatened the Union armies and killed the nobles. He called Preet from England and Daniel Latif from Bombay to argue for Nalla Narasimha and other activists and won. In the 1952 Hyderabad general elections, due to the ban on the Communist Party, Jayasuriya formed the People’s Democratic Front on their behalf and won 48 out of 98 seats. If there had been no conspiracies, if Telangana had been a separate region, Hyderabad would have been the first democratically elected communist state. Jayasuriya would have been the first Chief Minister. Sarojini’s residence in Abids became the golden threshold (golden threshold) and a meeting place for literary cultures. The first Central University It was established here in the days. Now a PG center is running here.
Let us think of the services rendered by Sarojini Devi’s family for the brotherhood of the people of the country, for independence, for the development of Telangana’s life, for culture and literature. Let us declare our love for them with all our hearts. The famous British writer Ardus Huxley, who met Sarojini in 1925, said, ‘The bird of the Deccan plateau has flown like a wave on the Indian Ocean. The way she speaks English with her golden voice and the sound of Niagara Falls is amazing. We are fortunate to meet Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, a woman who has combined great intellectual power with charm, sweetness with courage, broad culture with reality and humor with care in the most wonderful way. If all Indian politicians were like Mrs. Naidu, the people of the country would be truly fortunate. “Let us take responsibility for the legacy of the values given by Sarojini’s family. Let us stop the forces that are destroying the beauty of coexistence and restore the fragrance of humanity.”
Asnala Srinivas
