Profile of Parul

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

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real deserving artists and praised them and their art befittingly, While even for the Great, most Popular and Celebrated Artistes, she did not miss the opportunity to interview them inquisitively or write on them intelligently, sharply and indiscriminately. For the egoistic and boasting artistes she used to cross-examine and question them wittingly and wisely extracting truth from them just like a lawyer !
Parul's sharp, analytic and integrated interview of world famous Sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankarji is ample proof of her depth and grip of the subject of Music in the wider context of the Impact of Music in the World - fusion. This article published in The City Tab (reproduced here also) is worth reading in whole, which Panditji himself has commended tributing Parul "As a sharp, intelligent girl.........".
Similarly, her testing and sharply inquiring interview of monopolist Ghazal Artistes like Pankaj Udhas, which also appeared in the same Weekly, made him introspecting and reflecting to such an extent that he used to caution other artistes coming to Bangalore, "to beware of this tiny, intelligent, Gujarati girl." Parul's befitting writing on him also is worth going through.
Once, when she rightly and impartially criticised an incompletely trained Bharat Natyam Artist and especially her "care evading Teacher", in an article, the Artist's father and brother, both co-incidentally lawyers, threatened the Editor and Writer Kum. Parul. They even came in person, when I was also present, to forcefully suppress her and to make her apologise publicly or to face dire consequences. But Parul not only remained firm and fearless in her statements, but also replied the false arguments of the visiting advocate so befittingly and intelligently, and that too without losing her temper, that he had to go back himself apologising! As in Christ's case, THOSE WHO CAME TO SCOFF, REMAINED TO PRAY...!
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