Soma, the mystic elixir of the gods or rather the mystic elixir evoked in the Vedas that featured time and again in sacrificial rituals, rather like the cactus pulp of Mayan rituals that created ...

For all those who love A.K. Ramanujan’s work, for all those who walk around with lines from his poems and translations in their heads, Soma is an invaluable resource and a delight. Believed to have ...

Indian Institute of World Culture will host an exhibition by renowned artist S.G. Vasudev which will be a tribute to multi-lingual poet, scholar, translator A.K. Ramanujan. The exhibition will be held ...

Poet, translator, folklorist and writer, A.K. Ramanujan’s intellectual versatility is uncommon. Equally rare is the fact that most of his writings can satiate scholarly as well as general curiosity.

Kolkata: Two Bengal academics, Sipra Mukherjee and Mrinmoy Pramanick, won the A K Ramanujan Prize for translating the works of Dalit woman poet Kalyani Thakur Charal into English. They also became the ...

AK Ramanujan quotes a Chinese proverb in his preface to the Folktales from India that goes, "Birds do not sing because they have answers; birds sing because they have songs." Ramanujan's songs - ...

KOLKATA: Two academicians, Sipra Mukherjee, professor of English at the West Bengal State University, and Mrinmoy Pramanick, professor of Comparative Literature, who recently joined Jawaharlal Nehru ...

"Sponsored by the Joint Committee on South Asia of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies"--P. [iv]. Based on papers presented at two conferences, in ...