Word: sarojini
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Poona near the southwest coast, however, was a scene of placidity. "Peace negotiations" were entered into between St. Gandhi, Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, Pandits Motilal Nehru and Jawarhalal, Nehru in Yeroda gaol, and the "moderate" leaders?Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mr. Jayakar. Outcome of this meeting, sanctioned by the Viceroy, was a Gandhi peace proposal whose nature was kept secret...
Falsification. Certainly one of the most vital events of the week was the leading of a non violent march on the Government Salt Works at Dharasana by St. Gandhi's successor as chief of his movement for independence, plump but fiery Mrs. Sarojini Naidu (TIME...
...period of falsification had been long enough to give U. S. citizens and Englishmen the impression that Mrs. Sarojini ("Death or Victory") Naidu is a particularly funny female joke. Naturally there is a sense in which scrawny St. Gandhi and his whole topsy turvy nonviolent struggle is history's most colossal and perhaps most dangerous jest...
...nonviolent" is hard for occidentals to understand. The British did not try, promptly clapped No. 2 leader Tyabji into jail near Navsari. Naturally smart St. Gandhi had not omitted to name a No. 3 leader. Automatically his whole vast movement for independence was turned over to her: Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, poetess and lecturer, aged 51, educated at King's College, London, mother of four, zealous social reformer, onetime president of St. Gandhi's Indian National Congress which authorized him to declare independence (TIME, Jan. 6), onetime member of the Bombay municipality. Perhaps with more guile than St. Gandhi...