Google on Monday paid a tribute to activist and author Subhadra Kumari Chauhan's 117th birth anniversary with a creative doodle.  Illustrated by New Zealand-based artist Prabha Mallya, the doodle shows Subhadra Kumari Chauhan dressed in a saree and sitting with a pen and paper. The background depicts a scene from her poem ‘Jhansi ki Rani’, one of the most iconic poems in Hindi literature, on one side and freedom fighters on the other. Her poetry and prose primarily focused on hardships that the Indian women overcame “such as gender and caste discrimination”.

In a statement, Google described Ms. Chauhan as a “trailblazing writer and freedom fighter” who “rose to national prominence during a male-dominated era of literature”.

Ms. Chauhan was born on this day in 1904 in Nihalpur village in Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad, now Prayagraj. “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,” Google said.

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