THE ESSENCE OF INDIANNESS IN THE POETRY OF A.K. RAMANUJAN

Indian writings in English have always presented India, its culture and people in most of the works. These works always had a sense of longing for one's motherland. India can be seen presented with all its shades, bright or dull. The poetry of A.K. Ramanujan belongs to this tradition. Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan was a poet, translator, linguist and folklorist. His credit lies in his remarkable ability to maintain a considerable balance between tradition and modernity. This paper is an attempt to study how this poet looks back at his Indian past and presents it through his power of words.