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I hail from a town closer to Ramanujan and my father's hometown is 30 miles away from Ramanujan hometown. I will give you a perspective of Ramanujan's life growing up you figure out the type of person he is. Imagine a household where father is chasing debtors and mostly non existent in Ramanujan's life. Mother is singing in a temple for a living. Ramanujan could eat only one meal a day from his mother's earnings. He was often at the edge of death due to starvation. He could not afford papers, he often practiced math on a small 2by3 plaid chalkboard and temple walls. Later in life he was accused as a fraud for not providing proofs for his work, what people did not realize is that he did not have money to buy paper to provide elaborate proof. No running water or no electricity. If you dont believe me take a look at this picture, https://www.imsc.res.in/~rao/ramanujan/newnow/museumhouse.htm

Yet, inspite of all these odds he produced great results in the field of Mathematics.

Today, students proving Ramanujan's conjectures are awarded Fields medal but it is just disgusting how privileged white people still wont give him due credit.

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