On the 117th anniversary of her birth, poet Subhadra Kumari Chauhan is honoured with a Google doodle.

With an unique doodle, Google commemorated activist and novelist Subhadra Kumari Chauhan117th birthday. In a statement, Google described Ms. Subhadra Kumari Chauhan as a “trailblazing writer and freedom fighter” who “rose to national prominence during a male-dominated era of literature”.

Ms. Subhadra Kumari Chauhan is depicted in a saree, sitting with a pen and paper, in a doodle by New Zealand-based artist Prabha Mallya. On one side, a scene from her poem ‘Jhansi ki Rani,’ one of the most iconic poems in Hindi literature, is depicted, and on the other, liberation fighters.

Source: The Indian Express

Chauhan was born in the Uttar Pradesh village of Nihalpur. She was always observed immersed in etching words on a paper during a horse cart journey on her way to school, and she was always regarded as someone who loved to write continually. When she was nine years old, the trailblazing poet had her first poem published.

In a statement, Google described Ms. Chauhan as a “trailblazing writer and freedom fighter” who “rose to national prominence during a male-dominated era of literature”.

Ms. Chauhan was born on this day in 1904 in Nihalpur village in Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad, now Prayagraj.

“She was known to write constantly, even in the horse cart on the way to school, and her first poem was published at just nine years old. The call for Indian independence reached its height during her early adulthood. As a participant in the Indian Nationalist Movement, she used her poetry to call others to fight for their nation’s sovereignty,” Google said.

Her poetry and prose mostly dealt with the difficulties that Indian women faced, such as “gender and caste prejudice.”

Chauhan was the first woman satyagrahi – a member of an Indian collective of nonviolent anti-colonialists who was arrested in the battle for national liberation – when she was arrested in 1923. “She published a total of 88 poems and 46 short tales in the 1940s, making revolutionary declarations in the fight for independence both on and off the page,” the search engine giant added.

As part of her contribution to the freedom struggle, Ms. Chauhan continued to make revolutionary statements on and off the page and she published a total of 88 poems and 46 short stories.

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