Veerasingham Dhuruvasangary
Veerasingham Dhuruvasangary (5 September 1950 - 2 December 2006) was a scientist and inventor born in Point Pedro, Sri Lanka. His father named him after the Pole Star, "Dhuruvan Natchathra". He was the last born of 12 children.
He was the brother of Anandasangary, the controversial Tamil politician who is the sole Democratically elected politician who supports the Sri Lankan government and who also believes in the peace process.
A Soil Research and Development Engineer (B.Sc, M.Sc. M. Phil). Dhuruvasangary received patents for such things as a microscope convertible into a telescope and a world clock and developed other inventions such as solar oven, and a device to measure snow and hail precipitation.
Dhuruvasangary attended Hartley College, and completed his M.Sc in the USSR in the 1970s and M.Phil at Peridiniya University, Sri Lanka in 1983 (Assessment of Drainage Effects in the Mahaweli Area. M.Phil Thesis. PGIA, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka).
Books
He is the author of three books:
- Research Articles on Palymyrah Palm (1979),
- Lost Aviation Technology (1994) and
- En Muliyam Tamil (The Story of My Language, 2005; translated into English by Dhuruvasangary and C. Radhakrishnan).
The latter two were written and published after migrating to Canada. He wrote many articles and editorials on science and technology, archaeology, religion and history. He spent the majority of his life developing simple, low cost scientific and technological solutions to problems faced by regular people.
Central Thesis
The uniting thesis of his work was that pre-colonial ancient societies such as Sumeria, Indus Valley, Sri Lanka, Mesopotamia and so on, had complex science and technology, the content of which he developed utilizing all forms of evidence including archaeological, literary (especially myths) and religious practices. These, he argued, were forms of true science, which involved a process of verification placing the human factor first, as opposed to capitalist era pseudo-science, which uses profit as its measure of verification.
References
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