Ramanujan with UR Ananthamurthy in Minnesota, circa 1976. Ramanujan translated Ananthamurthy’s landmark novel, Samskara.

Ramanujan with his wife Molly Daniels-Ramanujan and writer Chard Powers Smith in Vermont, USA, in 1972.

Ramanujan speaking at Delhi University in 1983. He was more interested in the Indian mother tongues than in Sanskrit because he felt that they “represent a democratic, anti-hierarchic, from-the-ground-up view of India.”

A page from Ramanujan’s notes for his anthology A Flowering Tree and Other Folk Tales From India, published posthumously in 1997.

Ramanujan at home in Mysore, listening to the family radio. He wrote radio plays during his early career in India.

Ramanujan with friends, in a photograph taken by his elder brother AK Shrinivasan around 1945.


COURTESY AK RAMANUJAN ESTATE