Amruta

My first blogging award! :-) :-) :-)

Thank you so much Alyssa @ castlesineurope for nominating me. It means so much to receive an award from someone you have never met, based only on what they read on your blog! Thanks, thanks, thanks, again! 🙂 The rules are that I must post the award on my blog, share seven random things about me, Read more

February 21, 2013

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Amruta

award nominations, crazy things, random things, The versatile blogger award
My favorite romantic songs – Happy Valentine’s Day :)

Ahem! It is that time of the year again: Valentine’s Day, when love is supposed to be in the air! 😛 I am not a romantic person at all, but I am a big fan of Bollywood music. And Bollywood music makes romance really shine! So here’s a list of my favorite romantic Bollywood songs, Read more

February 14, 2013

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Amruta

love songs, romantic songs, Valentine’ Day, Valentine’s Day songs
Their feelings, too!

Here is the loose translation of a Marathi poem I wrote a couple of years ago (You can find the original poem on my Marathi blog, here). It is based on the concept of irony, and me having to tell you this explicitly, is an ode to irony itself! **************************************** He was a little boy Read more

January 25, 2013

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Amruta

Feelings
My Bucket List :-)

Well, well, whether life’s short or long, and ambitions and dreams are high or low; everyone, at some point or the other in their lives, thinks of a bucket list, and has one – on pen-and-paper or in their minds; said out aloud, or mused upon while solitary… I, too, have a list, and it Read more

January 24, 2013

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Amruta

Bucket List
Crazy Dreams!

Got a really, really crazy dream last night! A boy says to Stewie (from Family Guy): “main tumhe markar tumhare tukde tukde kar dunga” (I will kill u and scramble u into pieces). Stewie replies: “You can’t… I am already in millions of pieces! In fact you are actually UNscrambling me right now… That’s how you can Read more

January 9, 2013

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Amruta

Crazy dreams, Dreams, Family Guy, Stewie, TV, TV reception
Women empowerment begins with women’s efforts first! (And we can do it!)

For the past few days, the media has been abuzz with protests from various different groups about the increasing violence against women. While the vote is split between those who want capital punishment and those who don’t; while people argue about whether or not death meant the end of woes for the brave girl; while Read more

January 6, 2013

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Amruta

Crimes against women, Delhi Rape Case, Feminism, Nirbhaya, Responsibility, women, women empowerment
Happy New Year 2013!

Hey all readers, (again, if there are any left, that is! ) Wish you all a very, very happy new year! May you have a wonderful year, full of joy and prosperity and wisdom and laughter and fulfillment. The last year ended on a mixed note for me. It was a year of major changes, some Read more

January 3, 2013

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Amruta

Best Wishes, Happy New Year, Resolutions
The Sense of Smell, Part 1 – My Favorites

The smell of mud as it starts raining…ahhh…It enhances the wonderful pleasure that is called the rains. I wish they could bottle it so that we could enjoy it year-long! This post about my favorite smells in the world couldn’t have begun with anything else. 🙂 The smells of new books and new raincoats…woww…they cannot Read more

September 21, 2012

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Amruta
My Favorite Bollywood Rain Songs

[Update: 25th June 2021] After a very dry spring in Michigan, it has started raining again; and has made me very sentimental and dreamy and whatnot! So I thought of rehashing this old blog post of mine (from April 2012!). And as I’ve grown a bit since then, and my tastes have changed more than Read more

April 4, 2012

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Amruta

Bollywood Rain Songs, Monsoon, Rains
I so love The Hindu ads! TOI – are you listening?

I have been reading The Times of India ever since I was a child. In fact, back then, it was considered imperative to read the TOI to improve your English. I lived in Goa, and all we had access to was the Mumbai edition of TOI which hit the stands in Goa only in the Read more

January 28, 2012

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Amruta
New beginnings!

Hello all! Now, as cliched as the title of this blog may sound, I am definitely going to create something new here, from now on… Confused about the abrupt beginning ( if there is something like that!) ? Well, that is because I was taken aback after finding out that I last blogged on the Read more

January 11, 2012

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Amruta

new attitude, New Year, USA, Writing
Inception! Fascinating! (No spoilers)

Have you ever been out wandering around the country, with lush green pastures and a cool blue sky to keep you company? Have you been so engrossed while watching the trees and birds and flowers that you lost your way but still did not panic, as you were simply happy taking in the calmness of Read more

July 20, 2010

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Amruta

Christopher Nolan, Ellen Page, Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio, mind, sub-conscious, totem
I felt ashamed of myself today…

Picture this incident – The driver of a PMPML bus that was quite vacant, shut both the doors of the bus at an overcrowded Sanghvi Fata bus stop, so that people couldn’t board it. A boy, 15-16 years old, protested and asked for the door to be opened. The conductor did not listen, and barked that there was Read more

May 3, 2010

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Amruta
Where the mind is without fear!

Just remembered my school prayer..thought you all would appreciate it too… It is an extract from the great Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel-winning Geetanjali…Here it goes… Where The Mind is Without Fear WHERE the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into Read more

April 19, 2010

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Amruta

Geetanjali, Prayer, Rabindranath Tagore
It’s time to take a stand! We are no longer the “third person”!!

A 14 year-old girl from Patil Estate slum got raped by fellow slum-dwellers last month. She was coming back home from work when the incident happened. After this incident, the slumdwellers have been afraid of sending their daughters to school… What do you all have to say about this? “Oh yes, we hear about rape Read more

March 15, 2010

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Amruta

Abuse, Society, women