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With the obituary of Prof. Carlo Fonseka his great service came into talk, this marks a brief account on his life and the service.
Born on the 3rd of March in , Chiththalage Carlo Kashmiyar Fonseka was the eldest of the family of four children. Being the child of Alice Fernando and George Fonseka, he had his early education in Maris Stella College Negombo and later joined St. Joseph’s College Colombo. Marking the beginning of his higher education, he followed the path of his father who was also a doctor. In he was selected to the medical faculty of Colombo and performed well graduating with a first class in his MBBS degree.
After completing the degree he started his work to serve the people by joining as an intern professor K. Rajasuria and senior surgeon Dr. Noel Bartholomeusz in the Colombo General Hospital. Later he joined the base hospital in Mirigama, which was close to his home village as a medical officer. In he joined the University of Ceylon as a lecturer in the Department of Physiology. He joined the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in order to pursue his doctoral studies and obtained the Ph.D. in
In he returned the University
Prof. Carlo Fonseka ()
The Barnum of Sri Lanka
by Sachi Sri Kantha, November 20,
Prof. Carlo Fonseka, who died on September 2, at the age of 86, belongs to my tribe. Born in Sri Lanka 20 years apart (I’m his junior) and we both had a professional career as an academic in mostly university setting. Due to vagaries of ethnicity and political circumstances, he spent most of life in Sri Lanka, while I had spent more years in Japan than I had spent in Sri Lanka. He entered the medical faculty at the University of Colombo and passed out with an MBBS degree. Twenty years later, I could have entered the medical faculty like him, but due to the racist, ethnically discriminative policies of the then Sirimavo Bandaranaike government (installed in the May general election) I lost that opportunity. My disappointment with Prof. Carlo Fonseka was that, during that period, while he was serving as a high profile medical faculty member of the University of Colombo (due to his promotion of anti- firewalking stance in the media – more about this will appear in the latter half), he never raised his voice against such a discriminatory government policy. His Trotskyist party LSSP was a coalition
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Carlo Fonseka (b. ), Colombo University&#;s high-profile medical physiologist from to , was thrust into the limelight in by his controversial investigations into ritualistic fire-walking. Postulating a testable biophysical hypothesis for the traditional religious ritual of fire-walking, he publicly demonstrated experimentally that professed non-believers in divine intervention could profanely consume token amounts of pork and alcohol (taboo for religious fire-walking devotees) and walk barefoot across fire-beds, similar to those used for ritualistic fire-walks at Kataragama, without sustaining burns. The implication is that the immunity of fire-walkers from burns required no divine intervention. The experiments received worldwide publicity in the late s when Sir Arthur C. Clarke collaborated with Carlo Fonseka in a programme on fire-walking in his popular television series Strange Powers.
During his doctoral research years at the University
Carlo Fonseka facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Carlo Fonseka | |
|---|---|
| කාලෝ ෆොන්සේකා | |
| Born | ()March 4, Colombo, Ceylon |
| Died | September 2, () (aged 86) Colombo |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Alma mater | Maris Stella College, Negombo St. Joseph's College, Colombo 10 University of Ceylon University of Edinburgh |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Title | President, Sri Lanka Medical Council. |
| Term | January – June |
| Predecessor | Lalitha Mendis |
| Political party | Lanka Sama Samaja Party |
Carlo Fonseka (Sinhala: කාලෝ ෆොන්සේකාKālō Fonsēkā; 4 March – 2 September ) was a Sri Lankan physician, academic and political activist. He was a former dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya and a former president of the Sri Lanka Medical Council.
Early life and family
Fonseka was born on 4 March in Colombo, Ceylon. His family were Roman Catholics. He was educated at Maris Stella College, Negombo and St. Joseph's College, Colombo. After school he joined the University of Ceylon's Faculty of Medicine in Colombo in , graduating in with a first class MBBS degree.
Career
After graduating Fonseka joined the Colombo General Hospital as an intern under professor K. Ra
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