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Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	Teaching
Location	University of Delhi, Delhi - 110007, India
Introduction	Govindaswamy Rajagopal (b.1960- ) is Associate Professor, teaching Tamil and Comparative Indian Literature in the Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, University of Delhi. He has served as Visiting Professor of Tamil in the Department of Indology, Institute of Oriental Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland for two academic years (2011-2013). He had taught Tamil Language, its literature and culture to the foreign students of Sri Lanka, China, United States of America, England, Italy and Poland. G. Rajagopal has authored two books titled "Kaman Kadaippadal: Or Ayvu" (The Ballad on Kama: A Study) in Tamil (1986) and "Beyond Bhakti: Steps Ahead" (2007). Various reputed Research Institutions, Universities in India and abroad have published his papers on Sangam poems, Bhakti and Modern Tamil literary themes that include "Birds and beasts: Codes/symbols in the scheme of Sangam love poems", "Wandering naked: Saiva women mystics in search of spiritual empowerment", "Tamil voice against Aryans: Bharatidasan", etc.
Interests	Reading, listenting music and visiting places of natural beauty
Favorite music	Carnatic music
Favorite books	Tirukkural, Cilappadigaram, Kambaramayanam, Poems of Subramaniya Bharatiyar and Bharatidasan.