Naidu is known as "one of India's feminist luminaries".[2] Naidu's birthday, 13 February, is celebrated as Women's Day to recognise powerful voices of women in India's history.[44]
Composer Helen Searles Westbrook (1889–1967) set Naidu's text to music in her song "Invincible."[45]
As a poet, Naidu was known as the "Nightingale of India".[46] Edmund Gosse called her "the most accomplished living poet in India" in 1919.[47]
Golden Threshold in 2015Naidu is memorialized in the Golden Threshold, an off-campus annex of University of Hyderabad named for her first collection of poetry. Golden Threshold now houses the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication in the University of Hyderabad.[48]
Asteroid 5647 Sarojininaidu, discovered by Eleanor Helin at Palomar Observatory in 1990, was named in her memory.[49] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 August 2019 (M.P.C. 115893).[50]
In 2014, Google India commemorated Naidu's 135th birth anniversary with a Google Doodle.[51]
Works about Naidu
The first biography of Naidu, Sarojini Naidu: a Biography by Padmini Sengupta, was published in 1966.[52] A biography for children, Sarojini Naidu: The Nightingale and The Freedom Fighter, was published by Hachette in 2014.[53]
In 1975, the Government of India Films Division produced a twenty-minute documentary about Naidu's life, "Sarojini Naidu – The Nightingale of India", directed by Bhagwan Das Garga.[54][55]
In 2020, a biopic was announced, titled Sarojini, to be directed by Akash Nayak and Dhiraj Mishra, and starring Dipika Chikhlia as Naidu.[56]
