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...A few drops
FROM PARUL'S PEN.
* The Flower at Night (Poem) * Atma-Drishta Mataji (life-sketch)
Master of Strings : Pandit Ravi Shankar (Interview) * Thinking of Parul.
"The Flower at Night"
(A Childhood Peom) See that beautiful flower Which has the colour - shower. But it is pink and light And Blooms only in night.
See ! How sweet it is It attracts the birds and bees; And also attracts the butterfly,
I too shall have it, I must buy. No. not for me, for God, for Gracious PARSHVANATH my Lord to him shall I offer it and pray and bloom like flower in gay!
Kum Parul Toliya (il Years)
The little writer of this poem herself named after a flower of Bengal, had actually sown pink and white flowers in our compound to Bloom at nights. (''RAJNIGANDHA," and "RAT KI RANI"The Night Queen and others). Now the flowers are blooming at night with their all-pervading fragrance, but, Parul, the real fiower and the one who had sown them, is no more now...... Perhaps she has left her fragrance here for ever through these flowers blooming at Nights - fragrance of sereness and smiles and service and what not.........!! – P.
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