Amruta's Writing Block!

Trying to find a balance between my need to communicate, to be in control, and to get over my writer's block – all to fulfill my dream of being the new kid (or old lady) on the "writing block"… Yeah, yeah, I do sarcastic comedy on the side! :D

About Me

2007

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    Life is unfair!!! Get used to it!!! Enjoy the happy moments to the fullest….and ignore the not so happy ones completely!! And most of all, keep smiling….If nothing else, it atleast keeps u cheered!  🙂 Read more

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  • The importance of other people…..

    Was consoling a friend who was very depressed, and was giving him some tidbits of advice… Very spontaneously, I said something to him that amazed not only him, but me also…. While telling him to do this and that, I happened to say that “I know this is very easy for me to say, ‘coz Read more

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  • A Summons to Die Hard is not a Piece Of Cake!

    Confused by the title people?? Actually its just my laziness to write 3 seperate reviews for the 3 pieces of work i read/watched of late…. So lets not beat around the bush and get straight to the point! 😉 John Grisham’s Summons is an ok-ok story abt Ray Atlee, a law professor having a celebrity Read more

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  • Lyrics that have touched my heart……………

    When you are listening to a song, what is more important to you? The music or the lyrics? Well I have always been partial towards music.. I ‘ve always been more attentive to words only when recited without music, you know, poetry and stuff… But our very own Hindi songs too(without which our bollywood movies Read more

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  • In search of the First Citizen of India………

    Once every five years, our country experiences an embroglio over who should be (s)elected as the First Citizen, i.e. the President of India. This year too, a lot of bandwidth, that of print, television, internet, and human mind as well is being used up over the discussion about who should be the next President of Read more

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  • Cheeni Kum!!

    What happens when a 64 years old chef falls in love with a 34 year old practical thinking female, who has a hypocrit 58 year-old as a father? What happens when the father of this girl, goes on a Satyagraha of sorts to prevent his daughter from getting married to a man older than him? Read more

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  • Anything for you Ma’am!!

    Book Review : Anything For you Ma’am — An IITan’s Love Story Author: Tushar Raheja Rating: 3/5– Definitely Readable How many of you think that IIT students are nerds?? OK may be nerd is too harsh a term, how many of you think that they are devoted-to-studies, intelligent, sincere, and shy?? How many of you Read more

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  • My favorite scenes and dialogues from movies

    ********************************************************************************  Though I hated the movie ‘Fanaa’, and thought its shero-shayari was very amateurish, I loved this one piece by Ghalib used by Rishi Kapoor in the movie. When Kajol asks her father not to drink in front of her mother’s photograph, he replies, “Sharaab peete baith masjid me ghalib, Sharaab peete baith masjid me Read more

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  • Two Thousand!!! :-)

    Hi all!!! Another milestone achieved!! My blog hits just touched the 2000 mark! I am soo happy, especially because just around 2 months back, i.e. on 29th March, I was celebrating its 1000 hits, and now—its already reached 2000!!  Highly encouraging!!! 🙂 Ofcourse, I must admit, that a major portion of these hits is accounted Read more

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  • Angry? Don’t count till 10, count the prime numbers!!!

    An age-old practise says, that when you are angry, do not react immediately, wait and count till 10….. as counting till 10 gives you the best thing to prevent anger….time! Once you overcome that one moment of anger without reaction, you realise that the situation did not really need any reaction. Hmmm, quite a true saying,but Read more

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  • Hellooo!! M Back!! :)

    Hi everyone!! I am finally back on the blogging scene after  loong loong time!!(OK….admitted that the above line makes me look as though I’ve been a regular professional blogger, which am not, just a trivial one…like a small glow worm trying to find its feet in a huge diamond mine….OK…also admitted that this above line sounds Read more

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  • The see-saw of the human mind..and tendencies too…

    The minds of human beings are so very fickle…. a sudden incident can make a sad mind happy, and another sudden one can make the opposite happen…. This incident happened today morning…I was travelling by my office transport, a little sad, a little lost… the bus was pretty slow because of the traffic. Suddenly, it came Read more

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  • India is a tolerant country!!!(Is that a matter of pride btw??)

    I’ll start this one with a real  life incident that I happened to witness of late. Our office transport vehicle stops outside each office, and collects passengers, and drops them home. Outside the Rajashri office bus stop, is a Rickshaw stand. For some obscure reason, the rickshaw drivers have a problem if our bus stops there. A Read more

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  • Three cheers to the Karnataka Government!!

    After a long time, got to read something positively good (read that as – not irritating, not depressing, not infuriating!) in the papers. The Karnataka Government has planned a Bill on making it mandatory for private hospitals to attend to the victims of accidents and other emergencies, rather than sending them to Government Hospitals, or Read more

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  • Random sailings….

    Was sailing on the unstable ship of my mind, over a vast sea of past memories….. and docked on this particular line quoted by a speaker at a Gudi Padwa rally…. Sir Winston Churchill, while addressing the British Parliament, a little while before India got Independance, said about us, “Don’t give them freedom, ’cause they Read more

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