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 56 WHO'S WHO IN INDIA can sing with no difficulty in Sanskrit, Persian, Hindustani, Gujerati, Bengali and several other local dialects of India. Her stock of nearly 4,000 pieces of classical music which she has set to notation in her own handwriting is said to be a model of scholarly and scientific labours. In addition to music, Mrs. Satyabala is passionately devoted to painting and some of her sketches of the scenery of the Ganges are delightfully vivid. She is married to Dr. U. L. Desai, ]I.D., personal Physician to H. H. the Nawab of Rampur State, U. P. She is a fellow of the Philalethian Society of New York, U.S.A., and a Member of the Overseas Club, New York. Address : Rampur State, U. P. Srlmati Purnima Devi, (Mrs. Jwala Prasad), Prasada Bhawan, Shahjehanpur, United Provinces; was born on 13th May, 1884, at No. 6, Dwarkanath Tagore's Lane, Jorasanko, Calcutta. She is the youngest daughter of the late Hemendra Nath Tagore, brother of Dr. Rabindranath Tagore, the winner of the Nobel Prize and grand-daughter of Maharshi Debendra Nath Tagore, the founder of the Adi Brahmo Samaj. Mrs. Jwala Prasad was educated at the Loretto Convent (a school for European Girls) at Park Street, Calcutta, as a day scholar and in addition to English she knows Bengali, Sanskrit, Urdu, Hindi, French, Piano and Violin. She has passed the Cambridge Trinity College Music Examination. She is the first Bengali lady married in the United Provinces, her husband being the late Hon'ble Pandit Jwala Prasad, M.A., Deputy Commissioner of Hardoi, in 1903. She was the winner of the B. P. R. A. medal for Diana matches for schooling (191 1 Meerut). She has also been awarded a large number of medals for fancy, needle and tapestry work at various exhibitions. She is an expert rider going round her villages on horse back and an expert hunter having taken part in big game shooting with her husband. She knows gardening also. She takes very keen interest in the education and uplift of her sex in India. In memory of her