Uncollected Poems and Prose (Oxford India Paperbacks)

A.K. Ramanujan has been recognized as the world's most profound scholar of South Asian language and culture. This book brings together for the first time, poems and essays by Ramanujan, which could not be used in his lifetime. Also included are Ramanujan's conversational interviews with academics and friends, folk-tales, discussions of Shakespeare, translation and the idea of communication.