Profile of Parul

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

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PARUL-AS SEEN BY HER INMATES : MOTHER.
1. Smt. SUMITRA P. TOLIYA, M.A. Sangit Visharad
After Parul's graduation we had commenced searching a proper life partner to match a talented and extra - ordinary girl like her. Really, it is very much difficult for the parents to search a right person for their daughters, particulary when the daughter has particular aspirations and approach towards life. We too were much alert, careful and worried in this respect while looking for Parul's matrimonial relations, Keeping and intimating this view, we used to request our intimate friends and well-wishers to suggest if some befitting groom was known to them.
One day we received a phone call from one of our friends conveying, "ihere is a highly educated, cultured, sober, M.Com passed young man who is now pursuing his L,L,B. studies and simultaneously working as a "Lecturer" in a college in one of the big cities of South India, These days he is in Bangalore, I have talked to him and his family members about Parul and all of them are very much eager to meet her and you all, If you find interest and say yes, I shall be pleased to invite them to my home and arrange a meeting when you all can please come and talk to him"
We gladly accepted the invitation and decided to visit that friend. Next day was Sunday. Parul who never went against our wishes, happily agreed to go there changing her other prearranged programmes and as decided, we all reached there.
In most of the cases, face is the index of mind, At the very first sight of the boy, we were slightly disappointed, Our imagination and expectation about him was very much higher than what we really found. Even then we went on courteously talking to all of them, But politeness, modesty, openmindedness, frankness and other aspects that were expected from that highly educated boy were totally absent in him. Moreover, while
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