Profile of Parul

Author(s): Pratap J Tolia
Publisher: Vardhaman Bharati International Foundation

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expressions lie somewhere in her remote past births resulting in this birth as per her, POORVA-SANSKARAS, the previously earned knowledge, impressions and results............!
Again, maybe due to this previous-birth-earned "Wealth of knowledge and Arts", she had selected to be born in our family as already indicated in the beginning.
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As a result this little born artist had ample opportunities and circumstances to grow and flourish from the very childhood.
Though native of Saurashtra-Gujarat, we had too much leanings towards Bengal and its Music and Art. That's why the writer of these lines had been to Bengal several times and even studied Rabindra Sangeet along with other studies at Gurudeo Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan for some time in past. More significant was the studies and writings of Tagore that we inherited from his direct ascendant and a great Soofi Saint GURDIAL MALLIKJI, who had been instrumental in introducing myself self and my serene Music-based life partner Sumitra and getting us married by his pious hands.
This background of ours, as little Parul's parents not only provided her the above-referred artistic atmosphere, but also her unusual, Bengali Name of PARUL, which is a flower of Bengal, CHILD PARUL, THE BUD THAT BEGAN BLOOMING FROM VERY CHILDHOOD............!
When Parul was only five-six months old, we had a very fine and revealing experience of her inborn artistic expressions.
We had then organised and taken out a Cultural Programme troupe of our Cultural Activity "SARVODAYA PRATISTHAN" consisting of our Amreli-Ahmedabad College Students. We were staging our popular Hindi Play, "JAB MURDE BHI JAGATE HAIN !" (When the Martyrs Awake........) along with other musical presentations at several places. After staging the same very successfully at Ahmedabad and Amreli for several times, we had planned its tour shows at Bombay, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Madras, Cochin, etc. All of these could not materialize, but after our fresh staging at Ahmedabad, when we reached Hyderabad along with our entire troupe and little Parul, we had this unusual experience in which little Parul exhibited her first spontaneous and natural expositions and expressions............
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