This was the famous Namo Namo Matha written by Ananda Samarakoon, who was a well-known painter as well as a poet. The anthem has been beheaded. It has not only destroyed the song but also ...

He was, of course, referring to the substitution of Namo, Namo Matha, with Sri Lanka Matha in the National Anthem," said Sunil Samarakoon, nephew of Ananda Samarakoon, the composer of Sri Lanka's ...

Although Ananda Samarakoon’s ‘namo namo matha’was submitted for the contest by his wife Caroline Samarakoon in 1948, he was in India at the time. In a bid to heal his broken heart after the tragic ...

Until Ananda Samarakoon’s Namo Namo Matha was adopted as the national anthem in 1951, the then Ceylon had no national anthem! The national anthem was translated into Tamil at the request of its ...

“Hence the first national anthem was titled ‘Sri Lanka Matha Pala Yasa Mahima’ which was selected by the Lanka Gandharva Sabha. However by then Ananda Samarakoon’s ‘Namo Namo Matha ...

Sri Lanka Matha is the National Anthem of Sri Lanka. The words and music were written by Ananda Samarakoon in 1940 in Sinhala, and was officially adopted as the National Anthem on November 22 ...