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'''Jayashankar Rajagopalan

Monday, April 11, 2011

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Biography

Jayashankar Rajagopalan (1970- )

Jayashankar Rajagopalan was born in North Parur, Ernakulam District in the state of Kerala, South India. His father, M. Rajagopalan, retired from an Indian Public Sector Bank, and his mother Prof. Lakshmi Santa Rajagopal, an alumnus of the University of Tennessee, retired as the Vice-Chancellor of the Avinashilingam Univerity for Women, Coimbatore, South India.

Jayashankar had his early schooling in Carmel Gardens Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Coimbatore, the city where he grew up in till he obtained his BA English Degree with the top honours in his class in 1991.

Thereafter, he pursued his studies for an MA in English at the University of Hyderabad and went on to obtain his MPhil Research Degree for a highly commended dissertation on the celebrated Australian writer Randolph Stow.

In 1994, Jayashankar joined the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, as a Research Fellow, and continued there till 1996 when he was appointed Assistant Professor of English at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

In 2003, Jayashankar took up an assignment at the Maitreya Universal Education Project, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India, under the auspices of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition which continued with great contentment till 2008. It was during this period that he became deeply engrossed in Mahayana Buddhism. He has been a teacher of celebrated Mahayana texts like Shantideva's Bodhicharyavatara.

Since 2008, Jayashankar has been teaching in his hometown, Coimbatore, and is currently Assistant Professor of English at the Sree Narayana Guru College, Coimbatore.

Jayashankar has lectured in countries like Spain and Sri Lanka and has research publications to his credit.