Career
She is a retired Folklore professor of Mysore University. Jayalakshmi has performed hundreds of state and national level cultural competitions as judge. Her books on folklore have well received by the readers of Karnataka.
Jayalakshmi has written more than 30 books on folkore and few are "Namma suttina Janapada Kathana Geethegalu"(published by "Karnataka Janapada and Yakshagana academy"), "Hakki haaryave gidadaga", "Jaanapada hatti", "Kalyanavenni Janarella"(published by Kannada Sahitya Parishat) and many more.
She has written a numerous articles on folklore and folk literature of Karnataka.
