An Interesting Book

In the midst of the busy political readings on dailies these days, I found one interesting book titled “FUZZY AND NEUTROSOPHIC ANALYSIS OF PERIYAR’S VIEWS ON UNTOUCHABILITY” by Dr. W.B.Vasantha Kandasamy when I was searching in Google.

The book is the collective work of W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Florentin Smarandache and K. Kandasamy. Dr.W.B.Vasantha Kandasamy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. Dr.Florentin Smarandache is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of New Mexico in USA. Dr. K. Kandasamy is a staunch Periyarist. He worked as a guest Professor in the Tamil Department of the University of Madras.

The preface of the book starts with “Day in and day out we take pride in claiming that India has a 5000 year old civilization. But the way Dalits and those suppressed are being treated by the people who wield power and authority speaks volumes for the degradations of our moral structure and civilized standards” by our beloved Ex President Mr.K.R.Narayanan.

In this book the authors have analyzed the diverse manifestations of untouchability and the caste-system of Hinduism using Fuzzy and Neutrosophic theory. The authors have appropriately chosen Thandhai Periyar to study the untouchability who is a relentless crusader and social revolutionary who vociferously campaigned against untouchability and called for the annihilation of the caste system.

The authors used the basic Fuzzy and Neutrosophic tools in the analysis of the social evil of Untouchability. Since the notion of caste is based on the mind, they found it appropriate to use Fuzzy and Neutrosophic theory. The authors utilized the Fuzzy
Directed Graphs and Neutrosophic Directed Graphs of these Fuzzy and Neutrosophic models and presented the observations drawn from the mathematical results based on the Fuzzy and Neutrosophic analysis.

The study of this kind is innovative and it is done for the first time in the world. The authors intellectually incorporated the mathematical tools to study this sociological problem as they wanted to perform a scientific study of this system of oppression. The authors dedicated this book to Thandhai Periyar who devoted his entire life to work for the rights of the subjugated people and they felt proud to render this work to the great leader as their life time duty.

This book is the great work of highly qualified and educated people which has the clear scientific reasoning and presentation. It is heart warming to know that the authors choose Periyar who wished scientific development in every corner of the human life. This book is magnificent dedication to the illustrious leader who is fondly referred as ‘Arrivu Aassan’.