about the author ak ramanujan
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Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan was a poet, translator, linguist and folklorist. He was born in Mysore, Karnataka, to a Brahmin Iyengar family that loved and encouraged learning. He received his BA and MA degrees in English language and literature from the University of Mysore. Ramanujan taught at several universities in South India, after which he pursued a graduate diploma in theoretical linguistics from Deccan University in Poona, where he was a fellow. At the age of thirty, he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship at Indiana University, where he would also complete a Ph.D in Linguistics. In 1962, Ramanujan joined the University of Chicago, where he enjoyed an illustrious career as Professor of Linguistics and Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. He taught across several departments, as well as set up the University of Chicago’s South Asian Studies program. Ramanujan also taught at several prestigious U.S. colleges such as Harvard University, University of Wisconsin, and University of California-Berkeley. Ramanujan was fluent in many languages, including English, Kannada and Tamil.