In 1962, he joined the University of Chicago as an assistant professor. Ramanujan worked as a lecturer of English at Quilon and Belgaum he later taught at The Maharaja Sayajirao University in Baroda for about eight years. He was educated in English at the University of Mysore and received his PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University. Later, Ramanujan became a Fellow of Deccan College, Pune in 1958–59 and a Fulbright Scholar at Indiana University in 1959–62. In college, Ramanujan majored in science in his freshman year, but his father persuaded him to change his major from science to English. Ramanujan was educated at Marimallappa's High School, Mysore, and at the Maharaja College of Mysore. Srinivasan who was a writer and mathematician. His father, Attipat Asuri Krishnaswami, an astronomer and professor of mathematics at Mysore University, was known for his interest in English, Kannada and Sanskrit languages. Ramanujan was born in Mysore City on 16 March 1929. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award posthumously in 1999 for The Collected Poems. Though he wrote widely and in a number of genres, Ramanujan's poems are remembered as enigmatic works of startling originality, sophistication and moving artistry. He published works on both classical and modern variants of this literature and argued strongly for giving local, non-standard dialects their due. His academic research ranged across five languages: English, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, and Sanskrit. Ramanujan was a poet, scholar, professor, philologist, folklorist, translator, and playwright.
MacArthur Fellowship, Sahitya Akademi Award and Padma ShreeĪttipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan (16 March 1929 – 13 July 1993) was an Indian poet and scholar of Indian literature who wrote in both English and Kannada. University of Mysore, Deccan College, Indiana University Mysore, Princely State of Mysore, British India