Profile of Parul

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

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She went on writing beautiful poems and prize-winning essays. One of her Poems, "The Flower at Night" was presented and recited by her at a Public Meeting and the presiding learned person Justice T.K Tukol, the then V.C. of Bangalore University, appreciated the same very much. He also took her once to Mysore for such other meeting.
After acquiring First class with distinction marks in S.S.L.C., she went on getting Ranks and Awards throughout every year in her college and University Examinations. After her Gujarat Vidyapeeth schooling at Ahmedabad, she had acquired Indian Culture-based atmosphere, better than the convents, at Bangalore's St. Meera's School and Kamalabai Girls' High School.
Her college studies were carried on at Bangalore's Maharani's College and Jyotinivas College - everywhere she remained very studious and rank-winning, but at the same time very silent and unassuming. She neither liked publicity, nor liked to come in light on the stage. Rather she went on helping her mother and sisters when she found time after her additional, cultural studies of Dance and Music. A Bangalore weekly interviewer writes on her when she got one of her top ranking college exam. awards :Fourth rank winner keen on Music and Dancing, "Parul P Toliya, of Maharani's College, who was fourth in the first PUC Arts, is a serious student of Bharatanatyam and Hindustani Music. She hails from Gujarat. Her name is Bengali, meaning flower. Flowers," she says "interest all." She received the inter-school award from the Governor for her essay on Nature, in a competition arranged by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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