Contribution of A. K. Ramanujan

A. K. Ramanujan was a poet, translator, folklorist,and philologist. He is essentially a poet of memory who shows an intense preoccupation with the past which makes his poetry not only a poetry of the self but also of family history and cultural history. In fact, poetry in the hands of Ramanujan becomes a vehicle of the criticism of the self and of the world around him. We find the later Ramanujan a very different poet especially with his Buddhist acceptance of change as the only continuity and with his confession of violent emotions, sexual desire in particular.
Ramanujan wrote both in English and Kannada, and his poetry is known for its thematic and formal engagement with modernist transnationalism. Issues such as hybridity and transculturation figure prominently in prominently in such collections as The Striders, Selected Poems, and Second Sight. "A. K. Ramanujan" (1995) received a Sahitya Akademi Award after the author's death.
As a scholar, Ramanujan contributed to a range of discipline including linguistics and cultural studies. His essay "As There an Indian Way of Thinking?" proposed a notion of "context sensitive " based in complex situational understandings of identity that differed significantly from Western thought and its emphasis on universal concepts and structures. His works of scholarship include The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology, Folktales from India: A selection of Oral Tales from Twenty-Two Languages, and A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India. A. K. Ramanujan was the first generation of 'new poets'. 

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