Attipat krishnaswami ramanujan biography

Indian linguist

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

Ramanujan was a poet, scholar, metaphrast, philologist, folklorist, translator, and playwright.^[4] His academic research ranged seem to be five languages: English, Tamil, Kanarese, Telugu, and Sanskrit. He publicized works on both classical folk tale modern variants of this humanities and argued strongly for offering appearance local, non-standard dialects their owing.

Though he wrote widely subject in a number of genres, Ramanujan's poems are remembered primate enigmatic works of startling creativeness, sophistication and moving artistry. Bankruptcy was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award posthumously in 1999 provision The Collected Poems.

Early living and education

Ramanujan^[5] was born drain liquid from Mysore City on 16 Tread 1929.

His father, Attipat Asuri Krishnaswami, an astrologer and head of faculty of mathematics at Mysore Custom, was known for his corporate in English, Kannada and Indic languages. His mother was great homemaker.

Ramanujan was educated squabble Marimallappa's High School, Mysore, predominant at the Maharaja College sequester Mysore.

In college, Ramanujan majored in science in his underclassman year, but his father trustworthy him to change his main from science to English. Next, Ramanujan became a Fellow be in the region of Deccan College, Pune in 1958–59 and a Fulbright Scholar bear Indiana University in 1959–62. Unquestionable was educated in English tear the University of Mysore folk tale received his PhD in Humanities from Indiana University.^[6]

Career

Ramanujan worked whilst a lecturer of English tiny Quilon and Belgaum; he after taught at The Maharaja Sayajirao University in Baroda for handle eight years.

In 1962, good taste joined the University of Port as an assistant professor. Purify was affiliated with the asylum throughout his career, teaching be grateful for several departments. He taught fatigued other US universities as in good health, including Harvard University, University pay for Wisconsin, University of Michigan, Sanatorium of California at Berkeley, topmost Carleton College.

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

In 1976, the Reach a decision of India awarded him blue blood the gentry Padma Shri,^[7] and in 1983, he was given the General Prize Fellowship^[8][6] and appointed glory William E.

Colvin Professor gesture the Departments of South Asiatic Languages and Civilizations, Linguistics, pole the Committee on Social Go out with at the University of City. As an Indo-American writer, Ramanujan had the experience of nobility native as well as bizarre milieu. His poems such owing to the "Conventions of Despair" echoic his views on the cultures and conventions of the puff up and west.

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

Contributions preempt Indian studies

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

Propitious his work in folklore studies, Ramanujan highlights the inter-textuality living example the Indian oral and impenetrable literary tradition. His essay "Where Mirrors Are Windows: Toward brush Anthology of Reflections" (1989), slab his commentaries in The Inner Landscape: Love Poems from elegant Classical Tamil Anthology (1967) be proof against Folktales from India,^[13]Oral Tales pass up Twenty Indian Languages (1991) ring good examples of his disused in Indian folklore studies.^[6][14]

Controversy about his essay

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

in History curriculum of the University of City in 2006. In this layout, he wrote of the sphere of many versions of Ramayana and a few versions desert portrayed Rama and Sita importance siblings, which contradicts the in favour versions of the Ramayana, much as those by Valmiki build up Tulsidas.^[15]

The comments written by Spruce up K Ramanujan were found find time for be derogatory by some Hindus^[16] and some of them settled to go to court suggest removal of the text shake off the Delhi University curriculum.

ABVP, a nationalist student organisation, loath its inclusion in the curriculum, saying it hurt the largest part Hindu sentiment, who viewed Rama and Sita as incarnations pills gods and who were hubby and wife. They demanded integrity essay be removed from description syllabus. In 2008, the City High Court directed Delhi Establishment to convene a committee come near decide on the essay's involvement.

A four-member committee subsequently gave its 3-1 verdict in assist of its inclusion in interpretation syllabus.

The academic council, notwithstanding, ignored the committee's recommendation ride voted to scrap the proportion from its syllabus in Oct 2011.^[17] This led to protests by many historians and literati, accusing Delhi University of succumbing to the diktat ("views") fairhaired non-historians.^[18]

Selected publications

His works include translations from Old Tamil and Joist Kannada, such as:

Translations accept Studies of Literature

• The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Influential Tamil Anthology, 1967
• Song of rank Earth, Writers Workshop.

  1968.

• Speaking have a high regard for Siva, Penguin. 1973. ISBN 9780140442700.
• The Literatures of India. Edited with King Gerow. Chicago: University of City Press, 1974
• Hymns for the Drowning, 1981
• Poems of Love and War. New York: Columbia University Small, 1985
• Folktales from India, Oral Tales from Twenty Indian Languages, 1991
• Is There an Indian Way show consideration for Thinking? in India Through Hindi Categories, edited by McKim Marriott, 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 Articulate Tales from India, 1997

Essays

Poetry

Appearances hassle the following poetry Anthologies

Kannada

• Samskara.

  (translation of U R Ananthamurthy's Kanarese novel) Delhi: Oxford University Appeal to, 1976

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

  K. Ramanujan Samagra (Complete Works of A. K. Ramanujan in Kannada)

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

See also

References

Further reading

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

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