Who is popularly known as Nightingale of India?
Sarojini Naidu was the first Indian woman to be president of the Indian National Congress and to be appointed an Indian state governor. She was called “the Nightingale of India.” Her first volume of poetry, The Golden Threshold (1905), was followed by The Bird of Time (1912), and in 1914 she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her collected poems, all of which she wrote in English, have been published under the titles The Sceptred Flute (1928) and The Feather of the Dawn (1961).
