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K V CHIDAMBARAM

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2020

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MIGRATION TO MIGRAINE

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, thereafter our college days, ...

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TWO CHARACTERS ON THE VERGE OF LIFE CHANGING EVENT

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. Their parents also are well aware of the impact of their togetherness and are at the same time worried about their future. All are aware of their case as a unique medical sample and their separat...

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A character obsessed with an era they never lived through

K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #61

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 century was the century Karamazov was obsessed with. This obsession was for half a dozen reasons, if not more. With some insight into Historiograp...

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A character who goes to or purposefully avoids their high School Reunion

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 in most cases refers to the place where children enroll themselves to begin their education at a very young age, grow and mature in a systematic and gradual manner both physically and mentally. The duration of sta...

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Nepal Visit - A character arriving in a place unlike anywhere they’ve ever been

K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #59

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 in Katmandu. It was a very pleasant climate, it was cool, and, no wonder the Katmandu airport, in Nepal did not have air conditioning. The climate was to the liking of Juneja and it added to his interest in con...

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Vacation wasted

K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #59

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 arms and drawing the boy’s attention to do his homework and readying the essay on how he spent ...

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Story in a small town where everyone is suspicious of newcomers.

K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #59

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 rights can be exercised not just by enshrining in the Constitution but by having a firm belief and strength in its implementation. To a great extent the people of India are exercising their constitutional righ...

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Story that feels lonely, despite being set in a packed city

K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #59

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 located in crowded cities and preferring to remain lonely and only focusing on their topic of research and everything that is related to that. Others who cannot afford to visualize a place that could substitute th...

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Couple who have just moved to a place that one person loves, and the other hates.

K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #59

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 an upper hand in taking certain decisions in the groom’s family, irrespective of encountering a stiff resistance from ...

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THE STORY OF SOMEONE WHO FEELS POWERLESS

K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #58

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 or scene but do not have the patience or endurance to find out or enquire about the cause behind such a fiasco. Father of Jaison was the bread win...

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A story about someone breaking a long family tradition

K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #57

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 relatives. Amidst uproar in the family circles, within closest cousins, amongst friends it became an issue that had answer not easy to find. After having highest of qualification for his age, safest of employment in h...

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Someone who’s famous for something they never actually did – Shakespeare Versus Christopher Marlowe

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 means Kit Marlowe as he was called required a front for all his works. So to put it in clearer terms the works of Shakespeare are really that of Marlowe. A lot of researches are a...

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INSIGNIFICANT ACT OF A CAT – DESCENDANT OF A LEOPARD

K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #57

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 winter season has set in, in its coolest, in its figurative sense and not in the literal sense of the term. This time around the Irish author made it to the top. Anna Burns, the author whose book Milkman with a pin...

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A story about someone who travels to the future, and isn’t happy about how they’ve been remembered.

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 layers and also places limitations which in turn forces the writer or the author to partake in portions he or she generally woul...

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The different perspectives of two people meeting for a blind date Holi

K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #56

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. Jaideep was aware he was neither macho in his built nor versatile in his vocabulary. Whenever he is on the verge of meeting a person of the opposite sex he suffers from constipation of speech and diarrhea of though...

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