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PARUL
THE FLOWER THAT BLOOMED, BLOSSOMED and
WAS BRUTALLY CRUSHED IN BANGALORE.......... !
REMINISCENCES AND A TRIBUTE TO LATE SCHOLAR-MUSICIAN-UPCOMING JOURNALIST Kum. PARUL TOLIYA ON HER FIRST DEATH ANNIVERSARY ON 28.8.1989.
by Prof, PRATAPKUMAR J. TOLIYA
PARUL-a flower of Bengal, Born and grown in Gujarat, Blossomed and Breathed its last prematurely in Bangalore !
She was an Unusual and Unasuming Soul, a rare sublimed Soul, who happenned to be our "Silent Guest' in our Music; Art, Literature and Philosophy loving family for 25 Years and suddenly departed on one day for her further eternal Voyage...........!! Voyage unto that Unknown Land from where no traveller has ever returnedatleast in the same Physical form and frame !!
But as a father and family-host, neither was I fortunate to receive this Extra-Ordinary Guest when she was born 25 Years ago on the dawn of 31st December, 1961, at AMRELI, our Native Place in Saurashtra-Gujarat (When I happenned to be the then Vice-Princi pal of a College and had been away from the place), nor to bid her farewell when she departed due to a fatal Road-crossing accident while walking very carefully and consciously by a wrong-side dashing and 'KILLING LICENSE POSESSING GOVERNMENT (KSRTC) BUS' on Bangalore-Tumkur. Road, Near the Jindal's on 28th August 1988.
I was away at that time in my Meditations at New York on my Fifth Concert-cum-Lectures tour Abroad and was about to leave for
