Sri Lanka celebrated seventy-seven ... “Namo Namo Matha” and some other lyrics and decided that Samarakoon’s song should be the national anthem. Sir EAP Wijeratne then presented a cabinet ...
Before 1956 almost every major school in Jaffna had Sinhala teachers (many of them Buddhist priests) to teach The lyrics of the tamil version of the national anthem, namely ‘Sri Lanka Thaayae ...