Profile of Parul

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

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Dancing lessons "At school she has taken part in all essay contests in Hindi and English. She has kept up a bright record since school, She got a double promotion to the seventh class when studying in St. Meera's School. At the Kamala Bai High School she won a prize for getting the highest marks in English.
"She started learning dance from Mr. Uma Kanth. She participated in school programmes and gave a recital at the Town Hall, When she changed to Kamala Bai High School, she could not continue her dance lessons. Recently she joined Mrs. Leela Ramnathan's classes.
"She learns music and has learnt 15 ragas. Her parents, Mr. Pratap Kumar and Mrs. Sumitra are themselves music teachers. Her father trains people in the techniques of play back singing and is founder-director of Music for Meditation. Parul attends their classes. She is the eldest of five children, all daughters. Her voice is recorded in some records.
"Parul suffers from stage fright and has not taken part in college activities. She spends her spare time helping her mother."
(-K.R.R. ''The City Tab" dt. 25.6.1978) Also a similar interview of hers on All India Radio, Bangalore evoked very much interest amongst the listeners and even the interviewer herself.
Moreover, due to her constant liking for knowledge, she read out about half the books of my personal library.!
Apart from taking instructions from us in Music (Vocal and instrumental-Sitar-both), she also studied Philosophy from us and had deep self-study of Astrology. Her study note books are ample proofs of this. In course of her philosophical and oriental studies, she nicely mastered the Prime Jain Sanskrit Stotras of "SRI BHAKTAMAR" and "RISHIMANDAL" with apt accents of this
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