Essential Reader: Sarojini Naidu

<p>Sarojini Naidu was a prolific writer and speaker publishing three collections of poetry during her life and delivered many rousing speeches throughout the freedom struggle and after India gained Independence. <p/> This book compiles her best-known work as well as letters she wrote throughout her life to Mahatma Gandhi Jawaharlal Nehru Rabindranath Tagore and others to provide a glimpse into the kind of person she was and the ideas she believed in. <br> Through these pages we can witness her innermost thoughts and feelings and the important role she played in shaping the country's freedom struggle and its ideas as a young nation particularly through rousing speeches on the Education of Indian Women and the Battle of Freedom is Over which were broadcast over the <i>All India Radio</i> on 15 August 1947.</p>