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

What I Remember!

  • Eight years!

    So, WordPress just alerts me that I have been with them for eight years! :O Hard to believe… so to acknowledge these eight years, here’s a link to my first blog post: https://amruta.wordpress.com/2006/10/31/is-life-really-so-bad/ Hope you like it; or at least, like my later writing! 😉 Read more

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  • The Birthday Blog Post

    This was meant to be an actual birthday post, meaning it was supposed to be posted on my birthday, which was yesterday.  However, as most of my activities are these days, it had to be postponed. Thankfully, I can accredit it to my daughter, and not to my usual procrastination. 😀 Anyway, yesterday’s the day I turned Read more

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  • My childhood rain memories

    It is that time of the year, again (In India)! 🙂 Yes, the monsoon season, indeed. As my readers already know from several of my previous posts, I love the rain. Rain reminds me the most about treks, chai-pakodas, the ‘terrifying and soothing at the same time’ property of nature, and the romantic breeze, of course; Read more

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  • Kai Po Che? – The decline of traditional sports and games in India

    [This is my first post featured on the TheFrustratedIndian website] So, what is your favourite game, I asked my neighbourhood children at a party in India. “Angry Birds”, said a 7 years old boy. “I love cricket”, said another 14-years old girl. “To watch, I mean, you know… IPL and stuff… it’s so exciting”, she Read more

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Should I venture into fiction??

    For a long time, I have been at a loss of ideas for new blog posts… and more than ideas, it’s the expression that I am not able form. So i thought, why not try my hand at fiction? Stories and topics that have interested me, but never happened to me…. I guess I should Read more

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  • Movie Review: Taare Zameen Par

    “Kholo Kholo Darwaze Parde Karo Kinare Khuntey Se Bandhi Hai Hawa Mil Ke Chhudao Saare!!” And so goes a song, from one of the most intelligent and sensible films that Bollywood has ever produced. For those who don’t understand Hindi,(although that’s strange, since they are reading the review of a Hindi film…) let me translate Read more

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  • Hail Sinhagad!!!!

      Inspite of living in Pune, a city with several picnic spots in its vicinity, we end up going places only once in say half a year!! One such trip happened last saturday, and needless to say, we had real fun!! (U can see that on the happy faces in the accompanying photograph, can’t u!!). Read more

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  • Lyrics that have touched my heart……………

    When you are listening to a song, what is more important to you? The music or the lyrics? Well I have always been partial towards music.. I ‘ve always been more attentive to words only when recited without music, you know, poetry and stuff… But our very own Hindi songs too(without which our bollywood movies Read more

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  • 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 little while before India got Independance, said about us, “Don’t give them freedom, ’cause they 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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