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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amjad18" data-source="post: 18059808" data-attributes="member: 392336">ජාතික ගීය දෙමළින්බයියොන්ට රිදෙයිආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ(දෙමල පරිවර්ථනයේ ) සදහන් පරිදි  ජාතික ගීය දෙමළින් ගැයිමට අවසර ඇත.දේශප්‍රේමි මහින්ද ප්‍රමුක විමල් පවා මෙය වෙනස් කිරිමට කිසිදු උත්සහයක් නොගත්තේය.<img src="http://i60.tinypic.com/2n83es8.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i58.tinypic.com/20u1fn7.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />In Sri Lanka then known as Ceylon , the song “Namo Namo Matha” written by the artist-poet Ananda Samarakoon was formally adopted as the national anthem in 1951. It was slightly amended and changed to “Sri Lanka Matha” in 1961 without the consent of Samarakoon.When the national anthem was adopted in 1951 Sinhala had not been proclaimed as the sole official language. Thus the United National Party (UNP) government of the day got the song in Sinhala translated into Tamil by the scholar “Pundit” M. Nallathamby.Both the Sinhala and Tamil versions have been in use for decades. There has set in over the years a certain form of usage in relation to the national anthem. The original Sinhala song gets pride of place in most state or official ceremonies and events. In some instances the Tamil version is also sung.It has however been the practice for the Tamil version to be used in most events or functions in the Tamil speaking areas of the Northern and Eastern provinces. Most Tamil medium schools also sing the national anthem in Tamil at school events. This applies to many Tamil medium schools outside the North – East too.It is indeed noteworthy that the Tamil version continued to be in use even after Sinhala was made the sole official language in 1956. Both the Sinhala and Taml versions were sung in the sixties of the last century when the Prime minister Dudley Senanayake visited Jaffna.When Mrs. Sirima Bandaranaike came to Jaffna as premier in 1974 to open the newly set up Jaffna campus of the University of Sri Lanka both versions were sung.It was common in those days for selected school bands and choirs to render the national anthem in Sinhala and Tamil. What is remarkable is that though the Tamil language held no official status the more enlightened governments of the day had no qualms about the national anthem being sung in the Tamil language in Tamil medium schools or official functions in the predominantly Tamil speaking regions.The Constitution of 1978 ushered in by the UNP regime led by Junius Richard Jayewardene provided national language status to the Tamil language. It also granted Constitutional status to the national anthem.<a href="http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/1871" target="_blank">source</a></blockquote>

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