Nalin de Silva
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| Born |
20 October 1944 Kovilagodella, Panadura, British Ceylon |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Education |
Thurstan College Colombo Royal College Colombo University of Ceylon University of Sussex |
| Website | www.kalaya.org |
Thakurartha Devadithya Guardiyawasam Lindamulage Nalin Kumara de Silva (Sinhala: නලින් ද සිල්වා; 20 October 1944) is a Sri Lankan philosopher and a political analyst. He was a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Dean of the faculty of Science at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.
De Silva has openly stated that the so-called 'objective scientific method' is a lie.
In June 2011 he stated that information regarding presence of Arsenic in water claiming that the cause of Rajarata Chronic Kidney Disease had been given to him by the god "Natha". The Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science, an organisation in which De Silva claims lifelong membership, has said that they consider it "extremely unfortunate that the Dean of a Science Faculty should make it his publicly stated aim to run down science and bring it into disrepute.". However the presence of Arsenic was verified in water and vegetation, and the source was found to be agrochemical fertilizers.
Nalin de Silva was born on 20 October 1944 in Kovilagodella, Panadura, Sri Lanka. His father was Daniel De Silva, a principal and his mother was Jayline Perera, a school teacher. De Silva was the eldest of eight siblings. He had his primary education at Bauddhaloka Maha Vidyalaya – ) and Thurstan College Colombo and his secondary education at Royal College Colombo. At Royal College he captained the Sinhala Debating team and won the Weerasooriya medal for oratory. He entered the University of Ceylon in 1963 and graduated in Mathematics in 1967. De Silva entered University of Sussex in January 1969 and obtained his Doctorate in Theoretical Cosmology in 1970. He is married and has two sons and one daughter.
Nalin de Silva was formally a member of the Marxist Trotskyite Lanka Sama Samaja Party and the Nava Sama Samaja Party, and as a marxist studying both disciplines he intensively began to question the foundations of both Marxism and science. As a result, in 1986, he wrote Mage Lokaya (My World), criticizing the basis of the established western system of knowledge, and its propagation, which he refers as "domination throughout the world".
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