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National Women’s Day 2025 - February 13
February 15 , 2025
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- This day marks the birth anniversary of Sarojini Naidu, a freedom fighter, child prodigy and poet.
- Sarojini Naidu, also known as the Nightingale of India, was born on February 13, 1879.
- She was the first woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress in 1925.
- Later, she also became the first woman governor of United Provinces from 1947 to 1949.
- In 1929, she presided over East African Indian Congress in South Africa.
- She was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal by the British for her work during the plague epidemic in India.
- The Golden Threshold, her first collection of poems, was published in 1905.
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