Amrita Paul

blogs from Pune/Kolkata

The futility of love...
Sometimes you cry silently, under your breath because the pain feels difficult to bear and too heavy to part with. Sometimes all you want to do is ignore, love a person anyway. But the throbbing ache in your heart never ceases. Ah the irony of it. While several of them, living under the same roof ar...
Posted on 13 January 2015 | 1:22 am
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One step at a time
"Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can." Next month I complete five years of writing on this nondescript online entity. Whenever things have gotten horribly out of hand, I have returned to this blog, repeatedly, desperately to per...
Posted on 1 January 2015 | 10:08 pm
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How 2014 failed to ruin me
The idea was to push myself off a cliff. Metaphorically, of course. To write about how the idea of self, didn't make much sense while growing up but in my 20s it's the only thing I can think about. To fall in love, not out of compulsion, merely greedy for the most-hyped emotion in the world, but bec...
Posted on 27 December 2014 | 2:55 pm
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