The collection of poems The Golden Threshold was written by
- A.Toru Dutt
- B.Sarojini Naidu
- C.Kamala Das
- D.Rabindranath Tagore
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The correct answer is B, Sarojini Naidu. The Golden Threshold was her first collection of poems, and it was followed by The Bird of Time and The Broken Wing. Because of her poetry she is called the Nightingale of India, and she was also a leader of the national movement and the first woman to be president of the Indian National Congress at its Kanpur session.
Option A, Toru Dutt, was an earlier Indian poet writing in English and French, remembered for Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan. Option C, Kamala Das, belongs to a much later generation of Indian English poetry. Option D, Rabindranath Tagore, wrote Gitanjali, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, and his name is placed in these options precisely because it is the first that comes to mind for Indian poetry.
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