Sarojini Naidu was born in a brilliant, Bengali Brahmin family. She spent her childhood at a comfortable home in Hyderabad, with a garden in front, and woods at the rear. Sarojini Naidu became a national sensation when she passed the Madras matriculation in the first place at the age of twelve. She was already a poetess at eighteen. She was guided by Edmund Gosse and Arthur Symons, her lecturers at Cambridge.
While trying to solve a problem in algebra, she wrote hundreds of lines of poetry. She chased beautiful music and colourful words and wove them into rhyming lines. The passionate love for the motherland, nature and the inner joy of spiritual emotion breathe a magical life in to her poems.
She was the first Indian woman President of the Indian National Congress. She was a great freedom fighter. In fact, she was the greatest Indian woman of her time, and perhaps, one of the greatest in the world.