R. Radhakrishnan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

R. Radhakrishnan

Indian writer

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1949

Place of Birth: seerkazhi, Tamil Nadu, India

Profession: writer, journalist, literary critic

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, commonly known as R.
Radhakrishnan, is Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, and is considered one of the leading postcolonial theorists and literary critics in the United States.
He was born on 28 October 1949, in Sirkali, a village in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Radhakrishnan is also noted as a translator and poet of Tamil as well as a master of English and English literary criticism.
He was initially educated in Madras and earned his PhD from Binghamton University.