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Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Late Dr Appacutty Sinnathamby: Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.(1954-1967)

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JEY GUNASEGARAM

May 7, 2019, 11:40 PM (5 hours ago)



I was reminded of Prof.Sinnathmby, prompted by the passing away of one of his nieces, Dr. Jeathambihai Gnanapragasam, whose  obituary, I heard on Radios and also was published in Tamil Murasu Australia. I looked for any reference to Prof.Sinnathamby and found this Appreciatiion apparently  by his children! 
The services Prof.Sinnathamby has rendered to the Community as a very able Specialist, Professor and a Tamil activist has been apparently forgotten by the Community especially the Tamil community. He has not only published Books in Tamil for Medical education, helped establish Tamil Saiva Schools in the North western Province in areas like Udappu, Maruthankulam, Munneswaram. This was a very significant move by him, as the whole of that Province was slowly becoming a Catholic Sinhala speaking. Negombo, Chilaw and several villages and towns in that area,  like Anavilunthan, with Tamil names, (ஆனைவிழுந்தான்), have all become Sinhala speaking Catholic areas now, as there were no Tamil Schools there to teach Tamil. 
It is necessary that such pioneers who served Tamil and Saivaism be remembered with gratitude by our commnunity!

Another Professor who became a Tamil activist was Prof A.W.Mailvaganam, Professor of Physics at the University of Ceylon, Colombo. He mastered the Tamil language and was prepared to teach in Tamil. I happened to attend some of his classes in Radiation Physics, as part of our curriculum of the London Society of Radiographers, Diploma Exam. Subsequently, I met him at the Bambalapitiya Temple and attempted to talk to him, in English. He curtly replied 
in pure Tamil. I continued in Tamil with some English words in between,. Again he replied in Tamil only. I felt very embarrassed and then resorted to Tamil only after that. 
Prof. Mailvaganam was also involved in the Tamil University Movement in the Sixties and gave lectures to students at the Navalar Hall in Wellawatte. 
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