Profile of Parul

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

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POSTHUMOUS HONOUR OF YOUNG JOURNALIST :
"Bangalore: A young Journalist Kumari Parul Toliya was honoured with SEVEN Posthumous Awards on behalf of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan here in its Mass Communication College Convocation.
Kumari Parul was fatally knocked down by a State Government Bus while crossing the road on 28th August last year in which she had died on the spot.
Parul, an M A. in Hindi, had acquired Gold Medal. She was doing her Ph.D. on the subject of "CONTRIBUTION OF JAIN SAINTS TO HINDI LITERATURE."
Parul was a genious journalist. She was writing regular Columns in the city's main English Weekly, The CITY TAB. She had also worked as Asst. Editor of Hindi Daily ‘KARAN for one year. She was very well versed in Music.
Parul's posthumous Awards were received by Parul's father Prof. Pratapkumar Toliya and his wife. Prof. Toliya himself is a Poet, writer and Musician, who is very much sought after abroad for his Musical Performances........"
-The Blitz Hindi Weekly, 18th March 1989; Bombay.
PARUL-ROSE AND SET.
"Musician Shri Pratap Toliya is our Sarvodaya-loving friend. He has transcribed and flown the Songs of Bhoodan-age and the Ashram Prayers into Cassettes. Currently, he is offerring his Music services in the Abattoir-opposing movement going on in Bangalore.
It is a matter of great sorrows that his promising young daughter Kum. Parul has suddenly died in a road accident at the age of twenty five years only. Recently she got Seven Posthumous Awards of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Journalism. Moreover, Parul had won love of all by her talents in peculiar display of Devotional Music in India and elsewhere.
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