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

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  • Three cheers to the Karnataka Government!!

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    Amruta

    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 pushing for a police enquiry. This will surely come as a huge relief to all those patients who are turned down by hospitals, when they report in after an accident, or such occurence happening under medico-legal conditions. A huge debate still prevails on whether the… Read more

  • Random sailings….

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    Amruta

    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 are not a nation, just a population!” Does it touch a chord somewhere deep inside? Or to go with the current  lingo, does it shake a plank deep in the base somewhere??? Read more

  • Carvings on the wall…..

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    Amruta

    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, ‘Don’t waste water like money’…. A small line, but says a lot!! Doesn’t it?? What’s missing in it? It has wit, irony, truth! All the best ingredients for a good one-liner! And it so so so truly describes today’s situation!! And yet its such a simple line!! In old days, our elders used to say, don’t waste money like water; and now,… Read more

  • It pains me!!!!!

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    Amruta

    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 Pakistan several years back, when there are so many burning issues present currently and in need of proper attention……. It pains me to see Shilpa Shetty and Richard Gere bufooning on the stage in an AIDS awareness program, and it pains me all the more… Read more

  • SMS Shero-shayari!!

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    Amruta

    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 can’t imagine sending them to anybody! ) So I thought that instead of them sitting doing nothing in My Folders, I’ll list a few of them for all of you to enjoy…… ——————————————————————————————  “Reit pe naam likhte nahin hai….Reit pe likhe naam tikte nahin hain….… Read more

  • Delectable, yummy, tickling, ammmazzing Bheja Fry!!!

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    Amruta

     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 must have been nothing there to show!!”?? What if I told you that there was just 1 song in the movie, that too during its titles? What if I told you that there are no semi-dressed glamorous women in the movie, no action sequences, car chases, no human chases(aka Priyadarshan), or hot scenes?? Would you watch the movie?? I think I… Read more

  • Highlights of the (express) highway!!

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    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 camera mobile that time!! Highlight #1: At the beginning of the Highway, there’s a huge board:”DO NOT STOP ON THE EXPRESS WAY” . Right in front of that board, two big cars were parked, and a big congregation of its passengers had gathered and were discussing what seemed to be their khandaani  affairs! How good was that scene! Highlight #2:… Read more

  • Provoked!

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    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 to make the audience realise the trauma of the victim; they didn’t need to show excessive melodrama, K-style rona-dhona , etc to depict the pains and sorrows that the victim had to endure; they didn’t have to glorify the protagonist to crucify the villain, and yet the… Read more

  • Let me go…..

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    Amruta

    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 for a soul set free! Miss me a little, but not too long, and not with your head bowed low. Remember the love that we once shared, Miss me but let me go. For this journey we all must take, and each must go alone.… Read more

  • Namaste London!!

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    Amruta

    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!! Our office A.C. doesn’t work most of the times!!! So it feels good to be in a properly air-conditioned environment… And last and the least, too; I’d heard that “Namaste London” is a good movie!! I tried very hard, but I could find only so many causes to  reason why I went to watch the 10: 30 p.m. show of… Read more

  • Comedy of errors!

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    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 could not stop me from laughing. So, come along, let’s laugh together! 😀 Where’s the Chief Guest?? I was anchoring my college’s annual Technical fest, when this thing happened. For the inauguration ceremony, we had two special invitees on our list: the Chief Guest and the Guest of Honour. At the last minute, the Guest of Honour informed that he couldn’t… Read more

  • The journey of a million miles, starts with thousand steps!

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    Amruta

    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 that,(well in life, it does, right!! Much beyond that!), in fact to a million miles,then, only when you take thousand steps do u gain sufficient momentum to finish this loooong journey!! Just like this blog…I started it quite some time back…but it doesn’t seem to have gained much popularity…..but today finally… my blog stats showed 1000 hits!! (Too bad i… Read more

  • Is money equivalent to Happiness?

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    Amruta

           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 Principles Of Economics and Management class, titled “Money motivates!” We were supposed to refute the argument, so my main argument then was… “Why does one want money, to buy luxury, to feel the prestige, and such things, all basincally leading to what? Getting Happy!!! So the… Read more

  • The pursuit of Happyness……

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    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 well-educated? Does it come from being able to solve th Rubik’s cube puzzle in less than 30 minutes? Well, to Will Smith, aka, Chris Gardner, it came from suffering through all possible hardships, and achieving a goal so distant, so remote!!! And based on nothing….(He just sees people outside the stock exchange, and feels they are the ones who really… Read more

  • Row row row ur boat,FIERCELY down the stream……And have the best time of your life! :-)

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    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 dont, too!! Let me start from the start. Last Saturday I, alongwith 12 friends, set out to try some white water rafting…. After a picturesque journey(We passed from Mulshi Dam, Tamhini Ghaat, and the view of the lake and the valley was supperb!!) we reached the place Vile, where we met the instructors, who ushered us quickly to the place where… Read more