RATHNAKUMAR. RAGHUNATH

Rathnakumar Raghunath was born in 1988, in Chennai, India. While he was more inclined towards music as a child, as he grew older, he developed a passion for languages. In school, he wrote a couple of short stories and won the Camlin Young Author award for his work, "It Happened One Night". He claims that his life changed the moment he saw the French-Canadian singer, Céline Dion, perform on a show on TV back in 2003. He fell in love with her pure talent and her down-to-Earth personality and he was inspired to pursue courses in the French language in order to understand her French repertoire. He has done C1 in French at Alliance Française de Madras and A2 in Spanish at Instituto Hispania. During college, he wrote and directed a couple of short films, one of which, also won the Bimbam Award for Best Concept. He has, since, gone on to bag acting roles in various Musicals and Plays such as "Archie: The Musical", "Oscar", "Stay By My Side", "Skipping Christmas", "Star of Wonder", "Moulin Rouge", and has performed in Concerts such as, "Magic of Musicals 2", "September Symphony", "Magic of Music 3", where he opened the show with Michael Jackson's "Earth Song". He was also a part of a tribute to Simon and Garfunkel and performed with the Philharmonic Society of Selangor Choir from Malaysia. He also features in a Gospel album by Jere Franklin titled "Jeeva Raagangal". He was one of the singers in the single, "Kindle the Fire" that was an official entry in an international competition. He was the "Artist of the Week" on 104.8 Chennai Live FM in 2015. He is currently following a career involving the French language. He also is a budding entrepreneur and has an online handmade jewelry and gift shop called Something Different. During the COVID-19 Lockdown of 2020, he created an IGTV series called "Rawrange Series." It is a comedy that he has written and performed and has become quite successful in its own right. Through everything that he has been doing, his passion for writing has always stayed with him. It is that which has pushed him towards writing more short stories, flash fiction works, and modern poetry. His first published work is "Elevator", a flash fiction of about 1700 words. He wishes to continue writing and hopes to publish a book of modern poetry in 2020. He also has plans of translating his work into French and Spanish.