CONTACT ID OF DR RITA MALHOTRA

 EMAIL ID OF DR RITA MALHOTRA: drritamalhotra@gmail.com

MATHEMATICIAN-POET, TEACHING  FRENCH  AS A PASSION. FRENCH DEGREES FROM DELHI UNIVERSITY AND CLA, BESANCON, FRANCE

 DR RITA MALHOTRA  WAS 

• MEMBER, EDITORIAL TEAM FOR 'DUSK TO DAWN :INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY OF PANDEMIC POEMS' .
• INVITED READER B POETS INDIA INTERNATIONAL, DEC 2021
• CHAIRED THE INTERNATIONAL WEBINAR ON TAGORE AND THE WORLD(HUNGARY AND BULGARIA)  'AMI KOBI', AUGUST 2021
• GUEST SPEAKER FOR MATHEMATICS FACULTY R.COURSE DEC 2020
• PANNELLISTAT THE WEBINAR ON 'CELEBRATION OF RUSSIAN SCIENCE'. FEB 2021 

QUOTES BY DR RITA MALHOTRA INDIA

 

·      1. every void like every absence spells the continuity

of a loved one’s presence

 

·      2, Poets reach out in uncertain metaphors

            in their continuous search for truth.

 

·      3. Life’s pensive winds search for missing links

through eternity’s deserts

 

·     4.,  I trace a broken rainbow

on the last page of my book of verse.

 

·      5. Let me not desire to be part of any order, instead let me work towards just being myself with me and mine.

 

·       6.An evil-laden soul seeking redemption only finds sentries at heaven’s doors

 

·       7.history remembers poets for the legacy of  beautiful metaphors.

 

·       8.After dark nights, come dawns that bring in pearl-glitter on verdant greens and happy twitter of morning birds.

 

·       9.the poet swims between shores of inner sensibilities and a masked world outside.

 

 

 

                                        India international centre, New Delhi, February 14, 2020

Expert Coaching in French on Zoom BY Dr Rita Malhotra

Dr. Rita Malhotra's Online Individual and Group Classes in FRENCH for CBSE, IB, DU, DELF.

CONTACT: drritamalhotra@gmail.com

National Science Talent scholar and National Scholarship awardee Dr. Rita Malhotra is an internationally knownmathematician, poet, essayist, translator, French language expert, internationally known poet, translator, and poetry critic. Former Principal and Professor of Mathematics at Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi(DU) she has also been teaching  French at FGI Academy Delhi, for close to 38 years since her return from France. Malhotra was a French Government Post Doctoral Fellow in Mathematics at The University of  Paris after completing her Ph.D. at Delhi University. PRIOR TO THAT She qualified The French-General examination at The Department of Foreign Languages, Delhi University and topped the University Examination. Thereafter, she qualified three levels of Intensive French at The Language Institute Besanson France(CLA). She has received several international awards and recognition for poetry and Education. She is currently Academic Advisor, Soka Ikeda College, Chennai, India, President Poetry Across Cultures India, Poetry Editor Ars Artium, Executive Com. Member, Poetry Society(India) besides being associated with several Mathematics and Poetry Organisations. Globally published, she has been translated into thirteen languages including Serbian, Hungarian Romanian and Hebrew. She has authored/ edited fourteen books. She is widely travelled and speaks Hindi, English, Bengali, Punjabi and French. She lives with her family in Delhi,

poem of hope: Hope in the Covid times

poem of Hope in the current times

Let’s keep the music on

“we must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

fear-tethered unity across maps

bereft of dots

resonates in unmatched grace

virtual synergy in cyberspace

kindred tears, parallel dreams

remain dressed in their formal best

defying blackholes of the time

 

promulgation, communication

from sanitized sites of seclusion

from bondages of quarantine

death in a hurry, whirlpools of misery

outsides clad in ghost-shadows

(Goya’s dead escape from his dark paintings)

but the insides, in meditative chants

keep the music on

 

Vishnu* beseeched, Indra invoked

earth rechristened hell

seas remain formless, skies smothered

the sun limps on crutches of shadows

universe measures its memory’s depth

in recall of moribund songs

of the savage grippe espagnole**

yet raga bhairavi*** meanders in

to keep the music on

 

heavens wrapped in grey shrouds

muzzled beaks of singing larks

thoughts circle broken mirrors

brutal history carves itself

on the city’s throbbing face

yet, that infinitesimal spark of hope

eludes the ferocity of annihilation

to keep the music on

 

the wrinkled man whispers love

to moist eyes of an age-bent wife

“tears too have dreams” he says

the third eye of the westward sky

has its own tale to tell---

homeward birds are flying in

with the loving, distant folks and kin

to keep the music on

 

past water-rapids, through forest-shades

anticipation in green embrace

wings its way to earth’s door--

the rare orchid will bloom again

herons will fly the sky in flocks

gentle zephyrs would sing once more

 

who says

melodies are extinct?

*Known as the preserver, Lord Vishnu is one of three supreme Hindu deities. Vishnu's role is to protect humans and to restore order to the world. Indra, in Hindu mythology is the king of gods.

**The Spanish flu of 1918

***Bhairavi is a Hindustani Classical sampurna raga.