Ramachander was born on January 10, 1940, in Chelakkara, Trichur District, Kerala to Sri. P.R. Rama Iyer, who belonged to Kerala’s Iyer sect,.Ramachander passed M.A in Mathematics and got a Post Doctoral Diploma in Agricultural Statistics. He worked as the Head of the Department of Statistics in several ICAR institutes. After serving for 36 years, he retired as the Head of Division of Economics and Statistics of Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore in the year 2000.

Aiming to preserve Carnatic Kritis in English he has translated 1950 Kritis, which include writings of Vaggeyakaras such as Thyagaraja bout 100 kritis each of Purandaradasa, Oothukadu Venkatuasubba Iyer and many other. He has kept all his works to be accessed free of cost on his website. All these translations are now available in PDF format on:

https://hindupedia.com/en/User:P.R.Ramachander

Top Scientist of Millennium

Ramachander published around 150 research papers and four books on his subject. One of the institutions in England recognized him as one of the top scientists of the Millennium.

On the day of his retirement, Ramachander took a resolution. He decided himself to translate all the Hindu stotras written in Tamil, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Telugu, Kannada into English

P R Ramachander has undertook another marathon translation activity by writing three magnum opus “Ramayanas” of great writers Valmiki and Kamba besides translating Adhyathma Ramayana. These are not easy tasks at all.

He has, to his wonderful credit, translated 21 Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Devi Mahatmyam, Narayaneeyam,  Jnanapana, Krishna  Karnamrutham, 21  Vedic Sukthas,  including Chamakam, Rudram and 65 out of 80 known Stotra  compositions of Adhi Sankara.