How to pronounce “mallika” in English

So let me start out with something that you will be very familiar with because all of you deal with information in a sense.When my wife was pregnant with our first child, Mallika who's sitting in the audience, my chief resident called me and he said, "You know I just took your wife's blood sampleand it shows a thalassemia minor trait." So I went and looked at the blood sample and sure enough the cells were not what you see