Important Events Of March – 2

2021-03-02

Sarojini Naidu was born on 13 February 1879.
She was a freedom fighter and poet of modern India.
She was born in a Bengali Hindu family at Hyderabad and was educated in Chennai, London and Cambridge.
She took part in the National Movement, became a follower of Gandhiji (Mahatma Gandhi) and fought for the attainment of Swaraj.
She became the President of Indian National Congress and later she was appointed the Governor of the United Provinces, now Uttar Pradesh.
Known as the ‘Nightingale of India’, she was also a noted poet.
Her poetry includes children’s poems, nature poems, patriotic poems and poems of love and death.
In 1905, her first collection of poems, named The Golden Threshold was published.

Death: She died on 2 March 1949.

R. P. Sethu Pillai was born on 2 March 1896.
He was a Tamil scholar, writer and professor of Tamil at the University of Madras.
After a brief career in politics (he was the Vice Chairman of the Tirunelveli Municipal Council), he became a teacher.
During 1930-36, he taught at Annamalai University.
In 1936, he became a senior lecturer at the Madras University.
In 1946, he succeeded Prof. Vaiyapuri Pillai as the Reader of Tamil and the Head of the Tamil department in the University.
He was a member of the Tamil advisory board for the Sahitya Akademi since its inception in 1954.
He also wrote a number of books and articles in English. The most noted among them is his edition of Francis Whyte Ellis’ commentary of Tirukkural and Dravidian comparative vocabulary.
In 2009, Sethu Pillai’s works were nationalised by the Government of Tamil Nadu.

Awards

He was awarded the prestigious “Padma Shri” title by the Indian government, Kalaimamani award, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award by the Sangeet Natak Akademi in 1993, and the Karnataka Isaignani award.
He has also won Best Music Director awards for his background scores for films. He received the Sangeetha Kalasikhamaniaward given by “The Indian Fine Arts Society” in 1996.
He also received the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Music Director for the film Thirumalai Thenkumari in 1970 and the Tamil Nadu State Film Honorary Award – Raja Sando Award in 2000.

Death: He died on 8 September 2008.

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