K V CHIDAMBARAM

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2020

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25 Stories

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“MIGRATION TO MIGRAINE” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

Tabulate the time, by gathering or collecting, by recollecting the morning few minutes that we spend before the arrival of our daily transport. Confabulate the feeling you got from your sense organs namely, the eyes, the ears, the nose, the mouth, and the tongue. Assimilate the gaze, sound, smell, and taste you experienced. Since I felt and therefore am quite sure most of us are bound to find it very enriching and refreshing. It is best to differentiate our experience of such moments during the school days, t...

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“TWO CHARACTERS ON THE VERGE OF LIFE CHANGING EVENT” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

The conjoined twins Chandan and Tara as the term conjoined signifies are together from birth and now in their late teens. All these years they did everything together. This was irrespective of the fact that one was a male and the other female. Their togetherness was not just physical but also psychological and that too natural for obvious reasons.

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“A character obsessed with an era they never lived through” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

Phrases like; articulation of failure and failure of articulation, eat to live or live to eat, he died to live, these were the best of times and these were the worst of times, seems to be foregrounded in the mind of Karamazov, when he thought of era that he seems to be obsessed with. On dwelling further deep a couple of centuries before the nineteenth, somewhere between seventeenth and sixteenth ...

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“A character who goes to or purposefully avoids their high School Reunion” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

On the one hand School Reunion comprises of two words and each independently could mean something large, massive, extensive, intensive and what not. On the other hand when both of them are used, applied together, gets limited, to a great extent, to a considerable measure, to a large proportion. Firstly if we talk about School, it i...

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“Nepal Visit - A character arriving in a place unlike anywhere they’ve ever been” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

Yes it was to attend the admission test that Juneja travelled to Nepal from Dubai. Juneja was keen to pursue his higher studies and was informed that Nepal is an ideal destination to get scholarship after completion of M Phil from an Institute in Nepal which comes under the Pokhara University. What surprised Juneja was the climate ...

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“Vacation wasted” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

This year vacation has begun but everything seems unnatural. This unnatural mood of nature needlessly negated the near final preparations for an excursion down south and forced to stay put indoors. A boy who prefers to remain outdoors all through the year is disheartened and disgusted to hear that the dams have been opened.The damn good days are brushing past at jet speed and dull school days are fast approaching with bated breath stretching their...

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“Story in a small town where everyone is suspicious of newcomers.” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

This is the story of a big city morphed into a small town or a smaller village metamorphosed into a small town. The nation like India has enshrined in its Constitution equal rights to all its citizens irrespective of the religion, caste, color, language they speak, to live in any part of the country and practice their trade. These ...

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“Story that feels lonely, despite being set in a packed city” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

The feeling of loneliness is not just about being alone. It is about creating a world for oneself. You can be very busy in your own world with no one around or be in a diametrically opposite situation even with a city packed with people but not knowing what to do with it. We have scientists working in research organizations locate...

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“ Couple who have just moved to a place that one person loves, and the other hates.” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

The first couple out of the three couples had ended up in a place which one loved and the other hated. The question now arises as to how they ended up in such a place and continue to pull on with appearance of peaceful and prosperous living.Uma elder of the two sisters has the rare X factor in her which even though she could not get the best out of i.e. the X factor in the war with financial burden in the family but gave her ...

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“THE STORY OF SOMEONE WHO FEELS POWERLESS” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

It is very human to remain rest assured of being without any responsibility when there are elders holding the fort for you. Along with this state of being, also comes a sense of indifference and at times our actions touch the horizon of disrespect. Compounded to this foregrounds arrogance and heights of ignorance of their sacrifices and unqualified support. We end up seeing an unwanted situation ...

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“A story about someone breaking a long family tradition” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

In India in particular and in Brahmins in general, marriages take place amongst families of same caste and religion as a family tradition. But with education and probably with a willingness to do something unique, my cousin did something unheard of, unexpected of, untried before, unaccustomed by him and his family members and rel...

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“Someone who’s famous for something they never actually did – Shakespeare Versus Christopher Marlowe” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

It was in the year 1564 that Christopher Marlowe was born and two months thereafter in the same year was the date of birth of Shaksper who is now famously known as Shakespeare. It is said Shakespeare was a money lender who was residing in Great Britain. Marlowe was from Canterbury. It is said that Christopher Marlowe had to die in order to live. This in other words...

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“INSIGNIFICANT ACT OF A CAT – DESCENDANT OF A LEOPARD” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

Insignificant it may be the Friday morning’s in the Middle East for many, but for someone like me, I anxiously long for it. I am steadfast in sticking to the routine and head to have my breakfast at the nearest cafe. It was not just a Friday but the one after the Booker Prize for 2018 are announced in the month of October when wint...

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“A story about someone who travels to the future, and isn’t happy about how they’ve been remembered.” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

Preface to the StoryBefore getting on to the story proper, let us first of all, dwell a bit over the prompts in general. Thereafter we can ponder over the prompt in question. After fair bit of brainstorming over the prompt in question we shall try to understand the story or history of “Those Someone” who travels to the future and isn’t happy about how they’ve been remembered.The prompts in general presents numerous laye...

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“The different perspectives of two people meeting for a blind date Holi” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

Brains could blind the beauty. With this philosophy Jaideep was quite sure that he will be able to get closer to Jotsna someday, sometime, somewhere, and somehow. He was also sure that he was not a match to her in any other manner whatsoever. Jaideep had no qualms about his being very unhandsome in looks under any circumstances. Ja...

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Author bio

Have written two books 1. Passage to Bahrain 2. Storains. Like Reading and Writing and watch thought provoking movies and also plays. Great fan of Christopher Marlowe the dramatist and John Barth the novelist.