A.K. Ramanujan was an Indian poet and scholar who was born in 1929 in Mysore, India. He received his education from the University of Mysore and was known for his works written in English, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, and Sanskrit. Ramanujan received notable awards including the MacArthur Fellowship. He died in 1993 in Chicago at the age of 64.

2. A.K.
Ramanujan
Name :-
Attipate
Krishnaswami
Ramanujan
Nick Name :-
Raman
Born : -
March 16,
1929 Mysore
Died :- 13
July 1993 (
aged 64)
Chicago,
Illinois,
United States.
Language :-
English, Tamil,
Kannada,
Telugu,
Sanskrit,
Nationality :-
Indian
Education :-
University of
Mysore
Notable
Awards :- Mac
Arthur
Fellowship

4. a spitting angry, sarcastic, cutting rant
love-hate relationship with nature
speaker's love for mother (also family)
Questions given:
Is the description of the mother similar to that
of other Indian mothers?
Is this poem about the conservation of nature?

5. Notice that the whole poem is one single sentence
This poem, ‘Ecology’ is taken from Ramanujan’s
third volume of poems, ‘Second Sight’, published
in 1986