Career
He was elected a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1972 although his only formal education was a Civil Engineering Bachelor"s degree from College of Engineering, Guindy, University of Madras. During the period of Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship he created the first comprehensive 20 volume hydrological atlas of Tamil Nadu State of India including mathematical models, details of hydraulic structures, among others He developed also the double bounded probability density function (Kumaraswamy distribution), a probability density function suitable for physical variables that are usually bounded.
This distribution is in use in electrical, civil, mechanical, and financial engineering applications.
He worked also as a design and construction engineer of two major industrial works, namely, the Tiruchirappalli Boiler Plant, and the Tuticorin Harbour Project. In addition he was involved in the hydraulic design of numerous dams, canals, and other hydraulic structures throughout South India.
He was also well known among many as a Periyar Ramasami follower even during the periods of emergency (1975) when many of Periyar"s followers suffered, some even became afraid to associate with Periyar or his movements due to the atrocities created at that time on the followers.
