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Info deleted by User:Kush sinhala (I stored the deleted info here so that further research can be made by others to probe whether Rabindranath Tagore had any influence or not in the composition of Sri Lanka Matha)
[edit]There are differing accounts as to the origin of the Sri Lanka Matha. According to K. M. de Silva, Howard Wriggins, The Times of India and IBN Live, Ananda Samarakoon was inspired by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.[1][2][3] Rupavahini, Sunil Ariyaratne and R. K. Radhakrishnan state that Samarakoon returned to Ceylon from India around 1938 and wrote Namo Namo Mata in October 1940, whilst teaching at Mahinda College, inspired by his learning under Tagore.[4][5][6][7][8][9] According to Sumana Saparamadu, Samarakoon had been asked to write a patriotic song by the Chief Inspector of Schools for the Southern Province T. D. Jayasuriya.[8] Nayomini R. Weerasooriya says Tagore helped Samarakoon write and compose the song.[10] However, according to Bengali journalists Haroon Habib and Junaidul Haque, Tagore wrote the music and lyrics for Nama Nama Sri Lanka Mata in 1938 in the Bengali language for his student Samarakoon.[11][12] According to them, Samarakoon then returned to Ceylon in 1940 and translated Tagore's song into the Sinhala language Apa Sri Lanka, Namo Namo Namo Namo Matha, Sundar Sri Boroni.[11][12]
References
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Silvawas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Man of the series: Nobel laureate Tagore". The Times of India. Times News Network. 3 April 2011.
- ^ "How Tagore inspired Sri Lanka's national anthem". IBN Live. 8 May 2012.
- ^ "Ananda Samarakoon". Vinivida Wiki. Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
- ^ Gerald Wickramsuriya. "Dancing to our own tune". Sunday Times. Sunday Times. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- ^ Sunil Ariyaratne. "ජාතික ගීය නිර්මාතෘගේ ජන්ම ශත සංවත්සරය අදයි". Sarasaviya. Sarasaviya. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
- ^ R. K. Radhakrishnan. "Sri Lanka to release stamp on Tagore". The Hindu. The Hindu. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- ^ a b Sumana Saparamadu. "The Origin of our National Anthem". Sunday Observer. Associated Newspapers of Ceylon. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- ^ Gaveshaka. "The quest for the right song". Sunday Times. Wijeya Newspapers. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- ^ Weerasooriya, Nayomini R. (23 March 2015). "Why the national anthem should not be a dividing factor but a uniting factor." Daily News (Sri Lanka).
- ^ a b Habib, Haroon (17 May 2011). "Celebrating Rabindranath Tagore's legacy". The Hindu.
- ^ a b Haque, Junaidul (7 May 2011). "Rabindranath: He belonged to the world". The Daily Star (Bangladesh).