CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Ramanujan was born in Mysore, India. He earned degrees at the University of Mysore and Deccan College in Pune and a PhD from Indiana University. Ramanujan wrote in both English and Kannada, and his poetry is known for its thematic and formal engagement with modernist transnationalism.

Detailed explanation-2: -A. K. Ramanujan grew fond of writing short poems particularly in his later phase. After having translated the classical Tamil and Kannada verses his poetic style became terse and precise, almost aphoristic.

Detailed explanation-3: -RAMANUJAN’S CONCEPTION OF TRANSLATION In his published work Ramanujan reflected on translation most often in the context of poetry, and conceived of it as a multi-dimensional process in which the translator has to deal with his or her material, means, resources and objectives at several levels simultaneously.