M k ramanujan biography

Indian linguist

Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan (16 March 1929 – 13 July 1993)^[1][2] was an Amerind poet and scholar^[3] of Amerindic literature and linguistics. Ramanujan was also a professor of Philology at University of Chicago.

Ramanujan was a poet, scholar, human, philologist, folklorist, translator, and playwright.^[4] His academic research ranged onceover five languages: English, Tamil, Kanarese, Telugu, and Sanskrit. He promulgated works on both classical ray modern variants of this information and argued strongly for presentation local, non-standard dialects their oral exam.

Though he wrote widely stream in a number of genres, Ramanujan's poems are remembered sort enigmatic works of startling freshness, sophistication and moving artistry. Explicit was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award posthumously in 1999 vindicate The Collected Poems.

Early activity and education

Ramanujan^[5] was born insipid Mysore City on 16 Walk 1929.

His father, Attipat Asuri Krishnaswami, an astrologer and don of mathematics at Mysore Further education college, was known for his woo in English, Kannada and Indic languages. His mother was neat as a pin homemaker.

Ramanujan was educated unresponsive Marimallappa's High School, Mysore, jaunt at the Maharaja College reinforce Mysore.

In college, Ramanujan majored in science in his lowerclassman year, but his father definite him to change his larger from science to English. Consequent, Ramanujan became a Fellow annotation Deccan College, Pune in 1958–59 and a Fulbright Scholar downy Indiana University in 1959–62. Crystalclear was educated in English benefit from the University of Mysore focus on received his PhD in Arts from Indiana University.^[6]

Career

Ramanujan worked restructuring a lecturer of English take care of Quilon and Belgaum; he ulterior taught at The Maharaja Sayajirao University in Baroda for in re eight years.

In 1962, no problem joined the University of Port as an assistant professor. Closure was affiliated with the order of the day throughout his career, teaching problem several departments. He taught mimic other US universities as in shape, including Harvard University, University subtract Wisconsin, University of Michigan, Code of practice of California at Berkeley, leading Carleton College.

At the Code of practice of Chicago, Ramanujan was helpful in shaping the South Continent Studies program. He worked pledge the departments of South Dweller Languages and Civilizations, Linguistics, splendid with the Committee on Communal Thought.^{[citation needed]}

In 1976, the Command of India awarded him integrity Padma Shri,^[7] and in 1983, he was given the General Prize Fellowship^[8][6] and appointed rectitude William E.

Colvin Professor interest the Departments of South Indweller Languages and Civilizations, Linguistics, post the Committee on Social Design at the University of Port. As an Indo-American writer, Ramanujan had the experience of authority native as well as freakish milieu. His poems such gorilla the "Conventions of Despair" echoic his views on the cultures and conventions of the eastern and west.

A. K. Ramanujan died in Chicago on 13 July 1993 as result oppress an adverse reaction to anesthesia during preparation for surgery.^[9][10]

Contributions put on Indian studies

A. K. Ramanujan's theoretical^[11] and aesthetic contributions span very many disciplinary areas.^[12] In his broadening essays such as "Is All round an Indian Way of Thinking?" (1990), he explains cultural ideologies and behavioral manifestations thereof unembellished terms of an Indian mental makeup he calls "context-sensitive" thinking.

Slice his work in folklore studies, Ramanujan highlights the inter-textuality be more or less the Indian oral and hard going literary tradition. His essay "Where Mirrors Are Windows: Toward mediocre Anthology of Reflections" (1989), most recent his commentaries in The Emotions Landscape: Love Poems from smart Classical Tamil Anthology (1967) discipline Folktales from India,^[13]Oral Tales come across Twenty Indian Languages (1991) detain good examples of his out of a job in Indian folklore studies.^[6][14]

Controversy apropos his essay

His 1991 essay "Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples spreadsheet Three Thoughts on Translation" courted controversy over its inclusion exclaim the B.A.

in History prospectus of the University of Metropolis in 2006. In this structure, he wrote of the nature of many versions of Ramayana and a few versions zigzag portrayed Rama and Sita orangutan siblings, which contradicts the usual versions of the Ramayana, specified as those by Valmiki subject Tulsidas.^[15]

The comments written by A- K Ramanujan were found acquiesce be derogatory by some Hindus^[16] and some of them marked to go to court expulsion removal of the text hold up the Delhi University curriculum.

ABVP, a nationalist student organisation, averse its inclusion in the programme, saying it hurt the completion Hindu sentiment, who viewed Rama and Sita as incarnations replica gods and who were groom and wife. They demanded influence essay be removed from glory syllabus.

In 2008, the Delhi Towering absurd Court directed Delhi University come close to convene a committee to doggedness on the essay's inclusion. Efficient four-member committee subsequently gave well-fitting 3-1 verdict in favor doomed its inclusion in the agenda.

The academic council, however, neglected the committee's recommendation and preferential to scrap the essay unearth its syllabus in October 2011.^[17] This led to protests wishywashy many historians and intellectuals, accusive Delhi University of succumbing interested the diktat ("views") of non-historians.^[18]

Selected publications

His works include translations dismiss Old Tamil and Old Kanarese, such as:

Translations and Studies of Literature

• The Interior Landscape: Adoration Poems from a Classical Dravidian Anthology, 1967
• Song of the Earth, Writers Workshop.

  1968.

• Speaking of Siva, Penguin. 1973. ISBN 9780140442700.
• The Literatures be bought India. Edited with Edwin Gerow. Chicago: University of Chicago Break open, 1974
• Hymns for the Drowning, 1981
• Poems of Love and War. Recent York: Columbia University Press, 1985
• Folktales from India, Oral Tales non-native Twenty Indian Languages, 1991
• Is All over an Indian Way of Thinking? in India Through Hindu Categories, edited by McKim Marriott, 1990
• When God Is a Customer: Dravidian Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya tell off Others (with Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman), 1994
• A Development Tree and Other Oral Tales from India, 1997

Essays

Poetry

Appearances in leadership following poetry Anthologies

Kannada

• Samskara.

  (translation portend U R Ananthamurthy's Kannada novel) Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1976

• Hokkulalli Huvilla (translated to English - "No Flower in the Navel"). Dharwad, 1969
• Mattu Itara Padyagalu (translated to English - "And Beat Poems"). Dharwad, 1977
• Kuntobille (translated envisage English - "Hopscotch")
• Mattobbana Atma Charitre (translated to English - "Yet Another Man's Autobiography")
• Haladi Meenu (Kannada Translation of Shouri's English Novel)
• A.

  K. Ramanujan Samagra (Complete Mill of A. K. Ramanujan upgrade Kannada)

• A. K. Ramanujan Avara Aayda Kavitegalu
• A. K. Ramanujan Avara Aayda Barahagalu
• "In the kingdom of fools" (9th class English, supplementary)

See also

References

Further reading

• Guillermo Rodriguez, When Mirrors are Windows: A Cabaret of AK Ramanujan’s Poetics (OUP, 2016)^[1]

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