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‘Ecology’ - A. K. Ramanujan-study material
‘Ecology’ - A. K. Ramanujan Introduction A. K. RAMANUJAN (1929-1993) is probably the most well known of Indian English poets who made Indian verse in English internationally popular. He belonged to Mysore in India and taught in many universities in the country. Then he migrated to America. He became a lecture in the University of Chicago in 1962 where he worked till his death in 1993. Most of his works breathe Indian culture and tradition. 'Ecology' is Ramanujan's well known poem. It depicts the blind and innocent faith of an in educated Indian woman. This woman is the poet's own mother. She has great love and respect for the champak trees in her yard. They have been there from the time she could remember and provided basket full of flowers to the women in the family to offer their Gods. But the fragrance of the flowers gave her sever attacks of migraine and so her children decide to cut them down. When she hears about this she flies into a fury and adamantly
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