Amruta's Writing Block!

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Author: Amruta

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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!!…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…