Bharathi Raja R

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2021

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“Nobility is not everyone’s cup of coffee” by Bharathi Raja R

Submitted to Contest #102

Those days, exactly at 10:00 pm, the electricity used to be cut for a minute and at 10:01 it would be back. The elders used to say, “They change the line”. Even today, I don’t understand what it means. I never experienced this phenomenon after I grew up.  One of those nights, the elders were playing Thayam, a South Indian board game, in our thinnai, a raised platform in front of the house, which every house used to have those days and I don’t see in the houses being built these days anywhere. Ram uncle, Lakshmi aunty, Abdul uncle and ...

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“Wrong Window” by Bharathi Raja R

Submitted to Contest #97

It was a hot dark summer night. I was chatting with multiple people at the same time, as I always do post midnight on almost all days. I always sit facing the window in my room. I was juggling between multiple windows on my Windows laptop and was looking out of my window every now and then as a reflex whenever I had to think about something. “Oops… Wrong Window!” is the bottom most unread message in my Messenger window. That made me curious about the previous message. Aditya Kumar (Twitter ID: xxx, Facebook ID: xxx) Sai Babu (Twitter ID...

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“Strangers” by Bharathi Raja R

Submitted to Contest #96

“I can't think of marrying anyone else. I will stay unmarried forever then. Leave me alone.” This was my grandfather yelling at his favorite aunt.  “Don't talk like that, dear. Your dad can’t take it. I will ask your uncle to speak with him. I’ll speak with your mom too. One of you should come down. If both of you stay where you are, there is no end to this. Don't be adamant,” she tried to reason her brother’s point of view to her nephew.  “She's not an alien. Mathalapuram is just here. Just one and a half miles from here. Why ...

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“Nagalapuram - The Town of the Talk” by Bharathi Raja R

Submitted to Contest #95

The king asked his chief minister Iyer, “Mr. Iyer, Do you have any details around why the Pandyas shifted their capital from Korkai to Madurai? Why did they move from Madurai to Tenkasi again? Would you be able to do some research tonight and come back to me with the details tomorrow?” “Sure, Your Majesty! I did hear about the confusion that is bothering you these days. It’s a good idea indeed. We don’t need to do everything in one shot. We can have two capitals for now,” suggested the chief minister. “Wow! You got to know about that as ...

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“When I don’t like someone” by Bharathi Raja R

Submitted to Contest #94

“When I don’t like someone, I don’t like to see them ever again in my life. That’s how I am. That’s how I would ever be. That’s how everyone should be. How can people smile at each other knowing that they hate each other? I am not used to this culture.” “Why do you have to be so stubborn? We are all human beings. Everyone makes mistakes. You make mistakes. I make mistakes. What’s the point in being in denial about it?” *** I must be seven or eight years old then. I still remember this conversation with dad. “Dad, whom do you like the...

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“Lost and Found” by Bharathi Raja R

Submitted to Contest #93

This is not the first time they are coming to Madurai. Most of their relatives are here. So, they keep coming here every now and then. Most times, Muthu’s dad comes alone for family events like weddings, births and deaths. Sometimes, his mom also joins his dad if it is in a closer relative’s house. Once in a year or so, all of them come together if it is in a very close relative’s house. Last time, they came here six months back for Alagar uncle’s wedding. Muthu was not even two years old at that time. He wouldn’t remember anything from th...

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“#WWWLeaks” by Bharathi Raja R

Submitted to Contest #92

It’s 6:06 AM in Los Altos Hills, CA. The sun is rising for the day, swallowing the night-long darkness and 16% moonlight, which is just four days away from the new moon. The CEO of the world’s top technology giant, in his night dress, is looking at the suicide statistics. It is much faster than the COVID numbers he was following till last night. A suicide statistics says around 800,000 people die of suicide every year. That makes it roughly 2,000 people per day. Till last night it was not even 300,000 this year. In the last three hours a...

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“Go Back To Your Place” by Bharathi Raja R

Submitted to Contest #91

March 11, 2020 Wednesday 6:01 PMMost books jumped off the shelves and came to the Center Hall. A few of them were still tired and sleepy to move around.“This is our land. It has always been our land time immemorial,” shouted a thick book.“Yesss,” shouted back thousands of other books in unison, and their words echoed through the library. “Yes, it has been our land since the very first day we came here. CDs only arrived recently. But that doesn’t make us superior to them,” retaliated another thick book.“No. You don’t speak like a book. M...

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“The Family Deity” by Bharathi Raja R

Submitted to Contest #90

“Man! Are you serious? Building a Hindu temple in America is no joke. How are you planning on doing it?” “I don’t think so. I would say it’s easier than doing it in India. A lot of people've already done it, and I've spoken to some of them and understood the nittigrities.” “Still, I don’t think it’s as easy as you want to believe. Which God are you planning to build this temple to?” “I’m going to build this for my family deity. Lord Murugan.” “That makes it all the more difficult. Unlike Lord Shiva or Vishnu, Murugan is not popular i...

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Author bio

Technology Professional, Part-time Translator (mostly English to Tamil, sometimes the other way around), Columnist, Lyricist and Writer (mostly non-fiction and sometimes fiction). Always busy at work! :)