Google doodle today honours Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, India’s first woman satyagrahi who wrote Jhansi ki Rani poem

An illustrated Google Doodle released today has honoured Subhadra Kumari Chauhan India’s first woman satyagrahi who also wrote the iconic Jhansi ki Rani poem. This is her 117th birth anniversary. The Google doodle today shows Chauhan in a white sari with a brown stripe at the edges sitting with a pen and paper in a contemplative pose. Chauhan took to poetry at an early age, publishing her first one at the age of just 9. Google, in a statement, called her a “trailblazing writer and freedom fighter”. Chauhan became a prominent poet and freedom fighter in an age that was dominated by males, it added.

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