Profile of Parul

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

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We remained meeting each other everyday till the end of our examinations. They were over. The results declared Parul amnet only getting First Class with Distinction, but also as winnir.g a Gold Medal! At that time I realized that how much blunder had I made in beginning in under-estimating and mis-judging Parul !
! Her interest in Literature was from the very beginning. Hence translation-work well-versed and Music-expert Parul made this her career source of earnings. She never bothered for her own require. ments while fulfilling those of her sisters.
She had enormous faith in God. There was more of Bhajaninfluence in her singings. The philosophical Sifftings of her community remained incomplete without her Bhajans (Devotional Music). It was a part of her daily routine to be in Meditations and Spiritual practices every morning, and evening. And perhaps, this was the reason that God lifted her up from amidst us when the days of her glittering had come !
It was the day of 28th August 1988. She had been to meet her Doctor sister. She came in the clutches of a wrong-sidedashing lawless Motor Bus. Who can evade the Destiny? Parul went on struggling throughout her life and her end also came while struggling! Scattering the hopes of old parents, leaving the sisters sobbing with tears, Parul left us all in bloom of her youth on 28th Aug 1988. They say, “Man proposes and God disposes" My memory is full of Poet Maithili Sharan Gupta's these lines of a Poem befitting this occasion :
"Where has gone, our beloved, whose ever new showering flows of joy
were pleasing us..................
My aspirations were expecting tributes from the departed one, But the 'unexpected only is dear to us"
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