Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician of immense talent, achieved international acclaim through his collaboration with G.H. Hardy in England. Despite his groundbreaking mathematical insights and recognition as the second Indian F.R.S., contemporary Indian nationalists remained largely unaware of his contributions and untimely death. Ramanujan's life was marked by strict religious observance and a unique, almost supernatural, mathematical intuition that continues to fascinate mathematicians.