Ramachandra went to the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Bombay, for his graduate studies in 1958.
He obtained his PhD from University of Mumbai in 1965; his doctorate was guided by K. G.
[1] Between the years 1965 and 1995 he worked at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and after retirement joined the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore where he worked till 2011, the year he died.
During the course of his lifetime, he published over 200 articles, of which over 170 have been catalogued by Mathematical Reviews.
In 1978 he founded the Hardy–Ramanujan journal, and published it on behalf of the Hardy–Ramanujan society until his death.