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 think…

  • Angry? Don’t count till 10, count the prime numbers!!!

    An age-old practise says, that when you are angry, do not react immediately, wait and count till 10….. as counting till 10 gives you the best thing to prevent anger….time! Once you overcome that one moment of anger without reaction, you realise that the situation did not really need any reaction. Hmmm, quite a true saying,but Read more

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  • Hellooo!! M Back!! :)

    Hi everyone!! I am finally back on the blogging scene after  loong loong time!!(OK….admitted that the above line makes me look as though I’ve been a regular professional blogger, which am not, just a trivial one…like a small glow worm trying to find its feet in a huge diamond mine….OK…also admitted that this above line sounds Read more

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  • The see-saw of the human mind..and tendencies too…

    The minds of human beings are so very fickle…. a sudden incident can make a sad mind happy, and another sudden one can make the opposite happen…. This incident happened today morning…I was travelling by my office transport, a little sad, a little lost… the bus was pretty slow because of the traffic. Suddenly, it came Read more

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  • India is a tolerant country!!!(Is that a matter of pride btw??)

    I’ll start this one with a real  life incident that I happened to witness of late. Our office transport vehicle stops outside each office, and collects passengers, and drops them home. Outside the Rajashri office bus stop, is a Rickshaw stand. For some obscure reason, the rickshaw drivers have a problem if our bus stops there. A Read more

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  • 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 the victims of accidents and other emergencies, rather than sending them to Government Hospitals, or Read more

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  • 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 now 5 months pregnant…… It pains me to hear our politicians blabbering about who seperated 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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  • 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 so well, that they didn’t need to show excessive violence or gregarious acts of abuse Read more

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  • 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 sun has set for me, I want no rites in a gloom-filled room. Why cry Read more

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  • 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 i was in my 3rd year of Computer Engineering, We had a debate in my Read more

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  • 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 that love cannot be celebrated just on one day, so you do not need some Read more

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  • (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 of my CSR,  attended a workshop conducted by marathi Teen magazine “Kishor”. I went there Read more

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  • 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 mails, that I change everyday! 🙂 Now for all those people who have encouraged me Read more

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  • 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 man what the triumphs and traumas of the world of Circus were…It was the “zamaana” Read more

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  • 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 wider audience. There was this small village surrounded by a forest. In the centre of Read more

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