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

Irony

  • The Hysteria (and atrocity) of Mob Justice

    A few days ago, India was shocked to hear the news of a mob of 200-odd people in UP beating to death a man who was rumored to be consuming beef. While there are many different serious issues involved in this situation, including why the beef ban makes no sense, and how the temple was used for entirely ‘un-temple-like’ matters, Read more

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  • My first snowy accident!

    Yeah, so I have never before driven in snow. Yeah, so I should not be over-smart and offer to drive my husband to places… Yeah, so I should not try to swerve the car as soon as I see the turn for the destination. Yeah, so I should not brake hard when there is significant Read more

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  • 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

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  • Some questions about horoscopes….

    One day, aise hi, a thought crossed my mind..Someone around was discussing horoscopes according to the Hindu calendar. According to the Hindu horoscope, a person’s zodiac sign depends on the janmatithi (birthdate according to the Hindu Calendar), and the positions of the stars in the sky at the time of birth. Could someone please tell me, Read more

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  • Thought for the day!

    Do not devote too much of time thinking about how unfairly you are dealt with at work! There are many things to be done in life, and work, is just a means of getting the money to be able to do them! 🙂 😛 Read more

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  • A sadly funny situation?

    A friend narrated to me an incident he happened to witness. He was approaching a red-light on his bike, and the signal had just turned yellow. When it did, a small boy, with crutches in his hands(mind it, he carried the crutches, and not the other way round…), ran as fast as he could towards Read more

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  • The life of an IT pro!!!!

    A recent observation made by me and a few others, underlined the fact that more than 50% of the applicants to an HR specialty B-School were IT pros…. Software??? HR??? What’s the connection man??? Just shows that we guys want to get out of our field, in any way we can!! lol!!! Read more

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  • 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 monkey was still persistently following me… I didn’t even realize when I began running… The Read more

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  • 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 furiously. And the water – it was not the usual colorless liquid, it was dirty, Read more

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  • 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 went on laughing like he thoroughly enjoyed his own piece of humour!! I grinned and Read more

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  • 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???” 🙂 Read more

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  • Life and Death…..

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

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  • 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 driving, and she was indeed a verry good driver. So adding to it my own Read more

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  • Is life really so sad?

    {Note: This was my first blog post ever. I wrote it on my birthday, 9 years ago. In fact, it was this particular incident that prompted me to start a blog. Updated on October 28, 2015}   There was this one thing I wanted to write down somewhere for a very long time. Never found Read more

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