V. Karalasingham
| V. Karalasingham | |
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| Native name | வி. காராளசிங்கம் |
| Born | July 1921 |
| Died | 8 September 1983 (aged 62) |
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| Occupation | Lawyer |
Vaithianathan Karalasingham (Tamil: வைத்தியநாதன் காராளசிங்கம்; July 1921 – 8 September 1983) was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer, writer, politician and one of the leading members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party.
Karalasingham was born in July 1921. His father Vaithianathan was a civil servant who worked in several parts of the country. As a result, Karalasingham was educated at schools in Kalutara, Pannipitiya and Colombo, including Ananda College. It was at Ananda that he was given the nickname Karlo by principal L. H. Mettananda. Karalasingham had three brothers including V. Balasingham and V. Thanabalasingham.
Karalasingham had a daughter (Nina) and a son (Chakravarthy).
Karalasingham joined the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) in 1939. When World War II broke out in September 1939 the LSSP opposed the "second imperialist war". The LSSP played a major role in a wave of strikes in 1939/40 and consequently it was proscribed in 1940 and its leaders Colvin R. de Silva, Philip Gunawardena, N. M. Perera and Edmund Samarakkody arrested in June 1940.Leslie Goonewardena evaded arrest and went into hiding. The quartet were imprisoned at Welikada Prison but after staging a hunger striker they were transferred to Bogambara Prison. The four LSSP leaders, aided by sympathetic prison guards, escaped from Bogambara on 7 April 1942 and whilst de Silva, Gunawardena and Perera fled to India Samarakkody went into hiding in Ceylon.
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