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Author: Amruta

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Dream #2

    And once I was walking on the road, and casually turned to look back. A monkey, one of the small kinds, with a dangerous red face was following me!! I panicked!!! Seriously!! As I kept walking I realized that the…

  • Dream #1

    And there! The world was coming to an end! Well, if not the world, at least my city. My city was totally flooded! People were running (nah, swimming) helter-skelter to save their lives. The water levels were rising fast and…

  • Dreams I didn’t even dream I would dream!! :-))

    “Dreams are the stepping stones to success, so what should you do to be successful??”, asked a senior at college… As we all looked at him, unsure whether to attempt this one or not, he exclaimed, “Go to Sleep!!!”, and…

  • (Not Just)Another activity on saturday

    Have you ever experienced that when you go to do something good to someone, in reality it does more good to you!! I went Last friday and saturday, the kids at Eklavya Nyasa, the NGO where i go every saturday as a part…

  • Life After Death…..

    Shekhar Kapoor in the weekly column “I am” in TOI:  A man went to a sage and asked him, “Is there life after death?” The sage turned to the man and asked,”Is there life before death???” 🙂

  • Life and Death…..

    Now this one is completely original ! If life is like a dream, does death mean waking up from sleep? 🙂

  • Another color to Rang de Basanti….

    With all due respect to the movie (Mind you, I simply loved it!!) ,would the brave fivesome of Aamir, Siddharth, Kunal, Sharman, and Soha react in the same way if a pilot they did not personally know got killed and…

  • Traffic Signal—Yellow this time!!

    One of the most awaited movies of the year was the 3rd and last part of Madhur Bhandarkar’s trilogy on life…..”After Page 3 and Corporate”(Thats what the promos said).. TRAFFIC SIGNAL!! A very different movie! It has no very specific…

  • My driving!! (not other people mad…am talking about the real stuff here!!hehe)

    I love driving!! Though not from the start, I must admit…. I first of all started driving a little later than allowed, at the age of 21, and it was quite a shaky start. My younger sister had already learned…

  • SRK is most definitely THE King Khan!!

    Well, his acting talents, his ssssssssstttaaaaammmmerrrring dialogue delivery, his over-acting, his style, his charisma, his clean image, his quizzing skills,  and his personal life apart, just on the scale of sheer wits, SRK scores a triple A+! Take for instance the latest…

  • What’s in a signature????

    I have always been a big fan of quotable quotes…and have liked collecting them since childhood… It may sound like I am bragging; but yeah, many people have told me that they look forward to reading the signature in my…

  • Yeh Duniya ek Circus hai!!!!

    “Circus hai bhai Circus hai!!! Ye duniya ek Circus hai!!”, And so went the title track of a popular Hindi TV serial, aired a few years ago. An immensely popular serial, it did its bit in explaining to the common…

  • The idol stood still……….

    This is a story I once read in a Marathi newspaper that truly deeply touched my heart. It was translated from Kannada, I think. This is an abstract English translation of the story from memory, in order to reach a…