Essentials of Living: Paramita Mukherjee Mullick

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Paramita Mukherjee Mullick

In darkness, light

---Paramita Mukherjee Mullick 

Hope is on the parched earth, the first drop of rain.

Hope is a mother’s kiss when her child is in pain.

Hope is in darkness, light.

Hope is when imprisoned, the freedom, the flight.

In the pandemic-stalked world.

Hope and Love are the feelings which brings a happiness swirl.

When we are fed up with uncertainties.

When everything looks bleak and all thoughts freeze.

A hand on your shoulder gives you strength.

You regain confidence and can walk the length.

When disease and death have come out from Pandora’s box.

Hope still remains, it still rocks.

Remember all woes pass and ends.

Let us treasure Hope and Love as our friends.

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Paramita Mukherjee Mullick

Bio:

Dr. Paramita Mukherjee Mullick is a scientist, a national scholar transformed into an internationally acclaimed, award-winning poet. She has written eight books. Her poems have been translated into 39 languages and widely published in national and international journals and anthologies. Paramita is the President and Initiator of the Mumbai Chapter of the Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library (IPPL). She passionately promotes peace poetry, indigenous poetry, multilingual poetry and global poetry. She promotes fusion of poetry with other performing arts and uses poetry to promote awareness of climate change and conservation. Apart from numerous awards from Indian Literary concerns she has been blessed with the Gold Rose Award from MS Productions, Buenos Aires, Argentina for promotion of Literature and Culture. Paramita is also the Cultural Convenor and Literary Coordinator (West India) of the International Society for Intercultural Studies and Research (ISISAR).

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Setu, January 2021