Profile of Parul

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

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reading it! He just asked parul in Kannada, "Do you want a brother ?"
"No. Baba ! we have not come to 'beg' brother from you. My question is quite different, which you have not replied. Kindly open and see." Parul equipped with modesty.
Baba smilingly opened the closed paper, got a setback on reading it and soon went inside his room.
When Parul disclosed the same in details, all of us were, on one hand, impressed by her unusual question and on the other astonished to find that the Baba was not able to read the 'closed' question as reported and claimed and what even the Magician K. Lal was able to !
Perhaps Parul's poser had left the Baba thinking, and introspecting. It unfolded her past birth experience, memory of which was unconsciously and indirectly alive with her till then, even amidst her enormous progress in different pursuits and fields of learnings at a young age.
PARUL AS SEEN BY HER INMATES: FATHER
Prof, Pratapkumar J. Toliya. M.A. (Hin); M.A. (Eng.) Sahitya Ratna.
A FREE & FEARLESS WRITER AND CRITIC
The childhood inspiration of Sushri Vimala Tai to be a Revolutionary, resulted in the free, frank and fearless writings of Parul, who was otherwise so serene and silent. Her power of pen went on becoming mightier than sword in the words of Karl Marx. No boubt, she used to write balancingly weighingly and neutrally based on the principles and values of Literary Art Criticism with sweet sarcastic remarks without harming the artist and absolutely without any personal grudge against any artist as expected of a "Critic" of high standard. With a spirit of encouragement as per the duty of such a critic, she elevated the virtues, strivings and achievements of
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