Subhadra Kumari Chauhan - Poet and Writer
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan was the first woman satyagrahi in India. She was a member of the nonviolent movement of the Indian Independence Movement. Her poems and short stories are known to have a message for every Indian. In the early 1940s, she wrote many poems and stories about middle-class life in India. In the year 1948, Chauhan died in a car accident. In the year 2000, the Indian government commissioned a monument to her memory, and she published anthologies of her short stories.
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan's poetry has always been centered around the experiences of Indian women. It is this resolute nationalist spirit that makes her work stand out. Her poems were first published when she was nine years old. In the following decades, she published two poetry collections and three narrative collections. Her short stories and poems were largely political, and she continued to make revolutionary statements throughout her life. In addition to writing poetry, Chauhan also wrote and published 46 short story collections.
While Chauhan was an excellent poet, she also had a strong desire to write. Her poems and stories focus on the problems faced by women in India. Her work has a uniquely nationalistic undertone. The poems she wrote have inspired great numbers of Indian youth to join the Indian Freedom Movement. She died tragically in a car accident on February 15, 1948, at the age of 43. She was travelling from Jabalpur to Seoni when the accident occurred.
