User:Ragash/Padmapriye Hiremagalur

Padmapriye Hiremagalur was an educationist and philanthropist who was born on Sep 8 1925 to Dr B V Adri and Smt Sarojamma. Being the eldest of 6 siblings, she took upon responsibility at a very young age. She completed her Bachelor of Arts from Maharani's college in Bangalore. She got married to Lt. H S Parthasarathy when she was 18 years of age. Being a serviceman's wife she was used to the constant moving about lifestyle. They had 3 children. She was not contended with just being a housewife so she took up voluntary work in a school in Bangalore called Saraswati Vidya Mandir. She excelled in it so much that the school board offered her the role of head mistress. The 5 foot lady at the helm of this school, turned around the performance levels of students and from what was one of the worse schools in Bangalore became a reputed school in a short period of 2 years. She also took upon charity work and has helped lots of people from very poor backgrounds to make a career in teaching. Although born a Hindu and very strict in her religious beliefs and practices, she was a very secular person that saw beyond religion, caste or creed. She was a very active member of the Sathya Sai and Chinmaya Mission organisations. She has been an inspiration and a guiding force to lots of schools in Jayanagar. She has been honoured by the Sharada Vidya Mandir and Saraswati Vidya Mandir for her yeoman service to education. She has also been honoured by Shri Brahmaji of Chinmaya Mission for her selfless service to mankind. She was a firm believer in the saying that Nothing is impossible, only thinking makes it so. She undertook her maiden foreign voyage at the ripe old age of 82 on her own to the UK. After having faced so many adversities in her life successfully, she finally succumbed to multiple organ failure on the 31 October 2009 in Bangalore. She has proved to be an inspiration to all the people who knew her and will always remain in the memories of the students that came under her guidance as the small lady who made them better human beings.