Google Honours India's First Woman Satyagrahi, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, With A Doodle

Subhadra Kumari Chauhan's evocative nationalist poem "Jhansi ki Rani" is widely regarded as one of the most recited poems in Hindi literature.

Google today released a striking doodle to honour the life and achievements of Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, a trailblazing writer and freedom fighter whose work rose to national prominence during a male-dominated era of literature. On the occasion of the Indian activist and author's 117th birth anniversary, the doodle recreated the iconic image of the trailblazer, sitting with a pen and paper, in a saree. The doodle is created by New Zealand-based guest artist Prabha Mallya. Her evocative nationalist poem "Jhansi ki Rani" is widely regarded as one of the most recited poems in Hindi literature. On this day in 1904, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan was born in the Indian village of Nihalpur. 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.