Love Poem for a Wife
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A. K. Ramanujan
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Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan (March 16, 1929 – July 13, 1993) also known as A. K. Ramanujan was a scholar of Indian literature who wrote in both English and Kannada. Ramanujan was an Indian poet, scholar and author, a philologist, folklorist, translator, poet and playwright. His academic research ranged across five languages: Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Sanskrit, andEnglish. He published works on both classical and modern variants of these literature and also argued strongly for giving local, non-standard dialects their due.[1]
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[hide] * 1 Biography * 1.1 Childhood * 1.2 Education * 2 Career * 3 Contributions to Indian Sub-Continent Studies * 4 Controversy regarding his essay * 5 Selected publications * 6 References * 7 External links
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Childhood[edit source | editbeta]
He was born in Mysore City on 16 March 1929. His father, Attipat Asuri Krishnaswami, a professor of mathematics at Mysore University and an astronomer, had a study crammed with books in English, Kannada and Sanskrit. His mother was a housewife. He also has a brother, a writer and great mathematician AK Srinivasan.
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He was educated at Marimallappa 's High School and Maharaja College of Mysore. In college, Ramanujan majored in science in his first year, but his father, who thought him 'not mathematically minded ', literally took him by the hand to the Registrar 's office and changed his major from science to English. He was a Fellow of Deccan College, Pune in 1958 - 59 and Fulbright Scholar atIndiana University in 1959 - 62. He was educated in English at the University of Mysore and received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Indiana University [2]
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A. K. Ramanujan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan (March 16, 1929 – July 13, 1993) also known as A. K. Ramanujan was a scholar of Indian literature who wrote in both English and Kannada. Ramanujan was an Indian poet, scholar and author, a philologist, folklorist, translator, poet and playwright. His academic research ranged across five languages: Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Sanskrit, andEnglish. He published works on both classical and modern variants of these literature and also argued strongly for giving local, non-standard dialects their due.[1]
Contents
[hide] * 1 Biography * 1.1 Childhood * 1.2 Education * 2 Career * 3 Contributions to Indian Sub-Continent Studies * 4 Controversy regarding his essay * 5 Selected publications * 6 References * 7 External links
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Biography[edit source | editbeta]
Childhood[edit source | editbeta]
He was born in Mysore City on 16 March 1929. His father, Attipat Asuri Krishnaswami, a professor of mathematics at Mysore University and an astronomer, had a study crammed with books in English, Kannada and Sanskrit. His mother was a housewife. He also has a brother, a writer and great mathematician AK Srinivasan.
Education[edit source | editbeta]
He was educated at Marimallappa 's High School and Maharaja College of Mysore. In college, Ramanujan majored in science in his first year, but his father, who thought him 'not mathematically minded ', literally took him by the hand to the Registrar 's office and changed his major from science to English. He was a Fellow of Deccan College, Pune in 1958 - 59 and Fulbright Scholar atIndiana University in 1959 - 62. He was educated in English at the University of Mysore and received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Indiana University [2]
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References: A. K. Ramanujan died in Chicago, on July 13, 1993 as result of adverse reaction to anesthesia during preparation for surgery. Translations and studies of literature * The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology, 1967 * Speaking of Siva, Penguin. 1973. ISBN 9780140442700. * The Literatures of India. Edited with Edwin Gerow. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974 * Hymns for the Drowning, 1981 * Poems of Love and War. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985 * Folktales from India, Oral Tales from Twenty Indian Languages, 1991 * "Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?" in India Through Hindu Categories, edited by McKim Marriot, 1990 * When God Is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others (with Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman), 1994 * A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India, 1997 Poetry, fiction and drama * The Striders. London: Oxford University Press, 1966 * Hokkulalli Huvilla, No Lotus in the Navel * Relations. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1971 * Selected Poems * Samskara. (translation of U R Ananthamurthy 's novel) Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1976 * Mattu Itara Padyagalu and Other Poems * Second Sight. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986 A.K