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Svarnakumari Devi

“What is bravery in a victorious nation, is contemptible courage and barbarism in the conquered.”
- Svarnakumari Devi,
- in Margaret R. Higonnet, ed., Lines of Fire: Women Writers of World War I (1999)

Svarnakumari Devi, Indian poet, writer, musician, social worker

(1855 - 1932)

Full name: Devi Tagore Svarnakumari.