A native of Mysore, India, Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan grew up during the latter part of English rule in India, exposing him to the languages that would from his life's work as a poet and translator. Ramanujan's work reveals that cultural tradition in India is a conflict between the colonial English identity of the country as well as its historic and post- colonial ethnic identities. His work a mixture of the complex languages of which he was a master, is a production of flowing, metaphoric syntax and extremely concentrated composition.
