Profile of Parul

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

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cassettes of Parul's voice in song and recitation, talks of her hobbies reading writing and music and describes incidents from her life. How she taught her youngest sister Bharatanatyam, how she secretly put away her earnings in the bank, confiding only to one of her sisters that it was for her own marriage expenses so her father may not need to stretch his purse
Snatches of narration, that draw a picture of a quiet, thoughtful, young woman with a promising future. Someone whom Pandit Ravi Shankar described in his condolence letter as "a nice, sincere girl with a quick mind."
The City Beat; The Deccan Herald, 27-2-1989.
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ADIEU TO PARUL:
This is a reminescence to the memory of a dear departed friend in Journalism Course. Last year, Miss. Parul P. Tolliya's young (25 years) life was snuffed out in a road accident.
Beneath Parul's gentle disposition lay a brilliant intellect. An arts graduate with an additional M.A. degree in Hindi First Class, she had been a topnotcher and bagged many prizes. Besides academic honours, she was an accomplished Hindustani vocalist and instrumentalist. She had a flair for writing and was a music critic for a City tabloid.
It is an irony of fate that she is no longer with us to receive the Kulapathi's Gold Medal for having secured the highest marks in this college and Kulapathi's Silver Medal for having stood first in the Journalism course, besides three more awards this year.
I am sure all my batchmates and friends as well as our faculty members share these feelings with me and pray that her soul rest in peace. I cannot think of a better epitaph for this true Jain lady than Thomas Gray's celebrated lines: (Parenthesis mine) -B.G. Prasad, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Journal, "Alpha", Feb. 1989.
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