Joyful Times at Happy Villa Farms
dogs & more|Jul-Aug 2024
Here is an animal and nature lover who surpasses all challenges to emerge a victor, holding her own sense of belonging, living a life of harmony balanced by spirituality and inner strength
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Joyful Times at Happy Villa Farms

What can you say about a person who has the good fortune to be living at a farm, high up on a hill, with pets and animals for company, and helpful villagers for neighbours. Where you own ample land, green and cultivated, where you take your evening walks within your own boundary and if the mood gets you, you step out of your gate to walk along the narrow winding road which ambles to the top. The top, which is called Table Land, a small part of which even gets counted as your own private property! In my book, it’s called real luxury.

But then let’s face it, the woman we are talking about, Jaymala Suryavanshi Patil comes from a royal lineage, that of the Holkars of Indore. Her maiden name was Preeti Ranjeet Singh Holkar. Indore is where she was born, where she grew up, studying as a boarder at St. Mary’s Convent in MHOW. Jaymala proudly nurtures a legacy left to her by her great grandfather, Tukoji Rao Holkar 2nd, the sitting 13th king of Indore.

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