Ananda Samarakoon News Today

We must strive to preserve languages, as the disappearance of a language is not merely the loss of words but the erosion of culture and tradition International Mother Language Day is celebrated on 21st February, under the auspices of UNESCO. This international observance was first proclaimed by

The makers of Pippa could have chosen singers with prior experience of rendering Nazrul Islam’s songs.

So it’s down to four national anthems in the World Cup cricket, with India, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand making it to the semi-finals. We will be down to two anthems by Sunday for...

At least one cricket writer argues that anthems at cricket games should be canned because many spectators are disrespectful when it is being sung. You can see they are mostly busy with their cellphones, while folks at home are readying their beer-samosas for the 8-hour binge-watch. But some players say the national anthem gives them goosebumps and fires them up. These days, cameras pan in for close-ups of players faces, so you can see whos in sync. Im not sure it really matters.

By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana To say that our national anthem has had a rocky road, perhaps, is a gross underestimation. Afterall, the composer of this beautiful anthem sacrificed his life because of a totally avoidable controversy! As an ungrateful nation, we have forgotten the creator of the modern Sinhala music, Ananda Samarakoon. Though the city […]

The education philosophy of Tagore has received acceptance from the modern-day education policymakers Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore remains a highly respected intellectual stalwart to most of the Indians who know him as the author of the National Anthem and the recipient of the Nobel Prize for

By Uditha Devapriya \Although the Colombo Film Society would become Asia’s oldest such group, Colombo lay a world or two away from the rest of Sri Lanka. The urban middle-classes encountered the best of regional and Western cinema before their counterparts in Bombay and Calcutta did, but they remained cut off from a vast multitude […]

New Delhi: Embassy of India in Beijing and Embassy of Bangladesh in China jointly celebrated the birth anniversary of Gurudev Rabindra Nath Tagore and Bangladesh’s national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam with a delightful cultural medley at Swami Vivekanand

By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Sunday 6th February was a very significant day where two great ladies concerned; one completed her journey in this world after an illustrious career and the other created yet another record. Whilst India, bid farewell to its Nightingale, the United Kingdom started celebrating Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, a feat not achieved […]

Minister of Tourism, Prasanna Ranatunga, has declared the arrival of large numbers of foreign tourists here. He says about 82,327 of them came here in January, bringing in much needed foreign exchange. Has the Minister found out how much dollars these tourists have brought in and how much has been spent in Sri Lanka? Except […]