K V CHIDAMBARAM

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2020

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“DAY IN THE LIFE STORY ABOUT A FIRST TIME PARENT AND THEIR NEW BORN CHILD” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #56

For the first time parent’s life begins in strange ways. For immediate recollection I have three first time parents with very different stories, to relate their dilemma, determination, decisions, pain, paradoxes, irony, involvement and so on and so forth.Of the three cases, I shall take or relate the stories of two males and a female. So let us first start with the female, in line with the letter and spirit of the saying, “Ladies first”.I vividly remember my uncle uttering the phrase “Loves Labour Lost” euphemistically for the couple who had...

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“Two people meeting during unusual circumstances and becoming fast friends” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #56

Jairaj was in the administration department and the architectural department was also on the same floor. Jairaj as is quite conspicuous by the name itself is an Indian.The Management had entrusted Jairaj with arranging the office with a little bit of shuffling of the tables of the various department in the first floor where he himself was also stationed, in order to accommodate a subcontractor specialized in BIM Models with their staff to accomplish some urgent work on BIM Modeling.It was an afternoon and most of the staff, were relaxin...

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“AN ESTABLISHED GROUP OF PEOPLE WELCOMING A NEW FACE INTO THEIR MIDST” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #56

It was the worst of times I should say said Jagnesh when he took up employment in a multinational company as a Stenographer. Jagnesh did not belong to that state but to that country and his not belonging to that state posed a problem of becoming isolated as a majority of staff belonged to that state. Days, weeks and a couple of months passed and a time arrived when Jagnesh had to choose whether to join the Workers Union or not. Jagnesh was in a dilemma and hoped that to be in the good books of the Management and expecting some kind of p...

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“TWO PEOPLE WHO KNOW EACH OTHER ARE INTRODUCED BUT NEITHER PERSON ADMITS TO KNOWING THE OTHER” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #56

Justin was just in when Paul Scout realized that the fallout of what is forthcoming will not be in his best interest.It was a huge construction work site where Jeetu was employed as an Executive Assistant to the Resident Engineer of M/s. Heavy Plates & Vessels Co. Ltd.All three Justin, Scout and Jeetu were school mates in St Anthony High School, in Tegrah a remote village being developed into an industrial area as a part of the Government’s endeavor to attain self-sufficiency in petroleum products and petroleum byproducts and feed stocks...

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“A SECRET THAT SURFACES GENERATIONS AFTER” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #55

My family name Chidambaram does not sink very well with the names of people of the village I live in. It is a family name. Family name, here, which in other words mean, retained from grandfather not father, not from great grandfather, but from great, great, grandfather and so on, in that order, for generations.On little bit of scrutiny, with a little bit of observation, a fair bit of travelling would lead one to come across this name Chidambaram. Some can see this name used not by a person belonging to a particular caste, still others can se...

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“Can you keep a Secret? Why not, I was a Secretary” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #55

Can you keep a Secret? Why not, I was a SecretaryOf the many qualities that I expect from my subordinate is his ability to keep a secret emphasised the Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at the final stage of the Interview of James Holmes. Don’t you think it is easily said than done Apprentice James Holmes, the CEO quipped.Well sir while appreciating your comment and agreeing to your comprehension of the matter, I concur with you and at the same time also beg to differ and I assure you that I will be able to conv...

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“A CONVERSATION WITH SUBTEXTS OF CHARACTERS THAT ARE NOT SAYING WHAT THEY MEAN” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #55

A CONVERSATION WITH SUBTEXTS OF CHARACTERS THAT ARE NOT SAYING WHAT THEY MEAN Hiralal and Hari, students of Postgraduation moved to the quiet part of the canteen after an exhaustive lecture in a Linguistics class. It was a very interesting class on Semantics. The professor had discussed at great length Semiotics, Syntax and Semantics. He cited numerous examples which gave an insight into the terms like ambiguity, allegory, connotation, denotation and so on. Some of the examples were very humorous and some of the others were serious, but so...

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“HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEARTS COMING ACROSS ONE ANOTHER AFTER MANY MANY YEARS” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #54

The Title High School Sweethearts coming across one another after many, many, years, has a feminine taste to it especially the term Sweethearts. To give a different flavor to this term Sweethearts needs some work to be done on it. How about the terms like Sweet buddies, Sweet mates, etc.? Do they in anyway alter the meaning. If at all it is negligible. With this kind of premise I decide to start to begin the story. Of course the broad outline of the story was in my mind but it took almost a week to decide to proceed further ...

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“Going back to school as a mature student” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #54

The Principal, Mr. Yohanan, MA, M.ED., had assigned for himself the class on Geometry. The class was a mix of rich and poor students. However, Johnny came from a family who were at the subsistence level of existence and therefore, with great difficulty had got him admitted to an above average school of which         Mr. Yohanan was the principal.Arguably, this was the only English medium school in the vicinity of over 10 miles from the Fertilizer Township.It is quite natural that the parents who s...

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“Another day in a heatwave- Sunglasses” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #53

The heat wave has an impact on people in any part of the world. The heat wave could be in the months of March, April, May and June in parts of Asia and in June, July, August and September in most parts of the Middle East. People still have to work and find ways and means to face the odds and earn their bread and butter. They have to attend to their commitments irrespective of the severity of the heat wave. In the middle east the governments have issued warnings to companies not to allow their workers to work between 12 noon upto 3 pm due to ...

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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.