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

  • Carvings on the wall…..

    Do you find advertisement placards , bills and pamphlets put up on walls and meter-boxes  irritating?? Well, atleast I do!! But yeah, some catch-lines are too impressive to ignore…. On a wall enclosing Pune station: “Paani paishyasaarkhe udhalu naka”, meaning, ‘Don’t waste water like money’…. A small line, but says a lot!! Doesn’t it?? What’s missing Read more

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  • It pains me!!!!!

    It pains me to hear about the 33 people killed in Virginia varsity by a sadist gun-man… It pains me to hear about the teenage girl, dying with cancer, who was allegedly raped at the Tata Memorial Hospital, and is now 5 months pregnant…… It pains me to hear our politicians blabbering about who seperated Read more

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  • SMS Shero-shayari!!

    I have a huge collection of smses on my cell-phone(limited ofcourse by the limited memory on my 3120). Many of them include shayaris, and some of them, are real good ones, although they may sound a bit too senti at first…(I hate senti shayari, unless they have that unique spark, and even if they do, I Read more

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  • Delectable, yummy, tickling, ammmazzing Bheja Fry!!!

     What would be your impression about a movie starring Rajat Kapoor, Sarika, Vinay Pathak and Ranveer Shorey? “oh, no hero!!” ?? What would be your reaction if I told you that it lasted for barely an hour and half?? “Oh there must have been nothing there to show!!”?? What if I told you that there was Read more

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  • Highlights of the (express) highway!!

    No, I am not going to write about how benefitial the Mumbai-Pune Express highway is… Just some glimpses of what I saw on it , and was struck by, while travelling to Mumbai last weekend…How I wish i had a camera mobile that time!! Highlight #1: At the beginning of the Highway, there’s a huge Read more

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  • Provoked!

    Just happened to watch the Aishwarya Rai-starrer ‘Provoked’. I said ‘just happened to’ because I didn’t intend to in the first place, but when I did, I was glad I did! Seriously… Here’s one Indian movie that has handled a sensitive subject so well, that they didn’t need to show excessive violence or gregarious acts of abuse Read more

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  • Let me go…..

    Came across this very very soulful and touching poem while browsing the web.. thought wud put it up for my readers, too! I am sure you’ll like it a lot!!!  When I come to the end of the road and the sun has set for me, I want no rites in a gloom-filled room. Why cry Read more

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  • Namaste London!!

    Pune is a very hot city!! I live on the top floor of my building, which gets heated up the most, and is unbearable at nights!! Due to my working hours, I hardly get to spend time with my roomies!! Our office A.C. doesn’t work most of the times!!! So it feels good to be Read more

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  • Comedy of errors!

    No! This post doesn’t talk about the famous play of Shakespeare!! It just talks about a few comic, humourous errors that happened in my life. As embarassing as they may be, now, and even at their time of occurence; they could not stop me from laughing. So, come along, let’s laugh together! 😀 Where’s the Read more

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  • The journey of a million miles, starts with thousand steps!

    Confused with the title?? Think it should be “The journey of a thousand miles, starts with a single step.”? Well that holds true if you intend to travel only a thousand miles, if your journey is going to continue beyond that,(well in life, it does, right!! Much beyond that!), in fact to a million miles,then, Read more

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  • Is money equivalent to Happiness?

           So true is the above sentence, isn’t it!! just happened to see the above picture stored somewhere on my PC, and it started a chain of memories in my mind. Just jotting down a few of them here. When i was in my 3rd year of Computer Engineering, We had a debate in my Read more

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  • The pursuit of Happyness……

    How will you define happiness? How will you measure happiness?  Does happiness come from being always able to feed your family enough food? Does it come from paying your taxes on time? Does it come from seeing ur child being well-educated? Does it come from being able to solve th Rubik’s cube puzzle in less Read more

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  • Row row row ur boat,FIERCELY down the stream……And have the best time of your life! :-)

    Have any of you tried White Water Rafting?? If you havent, then plz plz plz do it, and soon!! Coz seriously folks, it is an absolutely fantastic experience, to those who have a quest for adventure, AND to those who dont, too!! Let me start from the start. Last Saturday I, alongwith 12 friends, set Read more

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  • Of Virtues, Vices and Valentine’s Day!

    Is celebrating Valentine’s day a virtue or a vice?? The red brigade(Read: Valentine’s enthusiasts) thinks its a virtue, and the saffron one (Read: Shiv Sena and other such “moral” organizations) could not have imagined a worse vice!! Some people think that love cannot be celebrated just on one day, so you do not need some Read more

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  • Blood Diamond—-Bloody, worthy,…all but glittering!!

    “Have you seen the color of this soil?? It comes from all the blood that’s spilt by fighting over this land!!” This is what a character in this very well made movie says to another one… And so true it is!!! Seriously, director Edward Zwick very boldly portrays the exploitation,the uproar, the struggle, the agony, the fury, Read more

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