A. K. Ramanujan - A. K. Ramanujan Biography - Poem Hunter.
Poet, translator, folklorist, and philologist A.K. Ramanujan was born in Mysore, India. He earned degrees at the University of Mysore and Deccan College in Pune and a PhD from Indiana University. Ramanujan wrote in both English and Kannada, and his poetry is known for its thematic and formal engagement with modernist transnationalism. Issues such as hybridity and transculturation figure.Ramanujan has laid equal stress on the meaning, as well as the design of each poem. The designer poems of Ramanujan are not only a treat to the eye, but also indicate a multi-layered meaning. To identify the central theme of Ramanujan’s poems one has to proceed cautiously with patience and imagination.Ramanujan was awarded a bachelor of science degree for research from Cambridge in 1916 and became a member of the Royal Society of London in 1918.
The purpose of higher education is to inculcate critical faculties in the student. Critical analysis of texts is an integral part of humanities and social sciences education. Ramanujan's word is not gospel and a student or teacher is free to agree or disagree with his essay.Poet, translator, and folklorist, A.K. Ramanujan has been recognized as the world's most profound scholar of South Asian language and culture. This book brings together for the first time, thirty essays on literature and culture written by Ramanujan over a period of four decades.
On the face of it, the controversy centres on a 1991, 18-page essay by A K Ramanujan, a historian of outstanding scholarship who taught for many years at University of Chicago.
