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Young, Richard & GSB Senanayake 1998 The Carpenter-Prētayā.

Wickremasinghe, Nira 2009 “After the War: A New Patriotism n Sri Lanka?” Journal of Asian Studies, 2009, 6: 1045-54. Samarajiva, Indi 2012 “the Flag Debate,” Roberts, Michael 2012 “Mahinda Rajapaksa: Cakravarti Imagery and Populist Processes,” 28 January 2012 Mother Sri Lanka ( Sinhalese: Sri Lanka Matha Tamil: Sri Lak Ty) is the. Roberts, Michael 2011 “Mixed Messages and Bland Oversimplification in President Rajapaksa’s Independence Day Speech,” 11 February 2013, Rabindranath Tagore, translated by Ananda Samarakoon, 1940. Roberts, Michael 2011 “The Vocabulary of ‘nation’ in English in the Early Modern Period,” 10 July 2011, Roberts, Michael 2010 “Challenges Today: Weevils in the Mind,”, Roberts, Michael 2009a “Sinhala Mindset,” 9 Dec. Roberts, Michael 2009b “Some Pillars for Lanka’s Future,” Frontline, 19 June 2009, 26: 24-27 …. Sinhala Consciousness in the Kandyan Period, 1590s-1818, Colombo: Yapa Publications. Roberts, Michael 2001 Primordialist strands in contemporary Sinhala nationalism in Sri Lanka: Urumaya as Ur (Vol. Exploring Confrontation, Reading: Harwood Academic Press. Roberts, Michael 1978 “Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka and Sinhalese Perspectives: Barriers to Accommodation,” Modern Asian Studies, 12, 353-376. Guruge, Ananda (ed) 1965 Return to Righteousness, Colombo: Ministry of Cultural Affairs, 1965: 501-44. įunday Times 2010 “The Sri Lankan National Flag,”. resistance and regain important towns and villages from the rebelnkan Armed forces.ALSO SEE Michael Roberts: “ Ideological Cancers within the Sinhala Universe,”, ĪND COMPARE : “National Anthem only in Sinhala Tamil version out,” 23 December 2010 …. The evocation of patriotism and national-feeling are often attempted through references to topography, mythology, and cliched. The president's trip to the United Kingdom was marred by protests after a British television channel broadcasted video footage of alleged massacre of civilians by Sri Lankan army. Meanwhile, Tamil activists over the recent weeks calling for an international arrest warrant for Rajapaksa, blaming him for thousands of civilian deaths in the Sri Lankan civil war.

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Velupillai Prabhakaran was also killed in May last year in an offensive by the army. Last year, the Sri Lankan armed forces however managed to crush down the resistance and regain important towns and villages from the rebel stronghold.

Ethnic Tamils represented by the Tamil Tiger rebels fought a 25-year-long battle demanding an independent country for the Tamil minorities. The Sinhala version of the anthem 'Sri Lanka Matha' is widely used across the country while the Tamil version is popular in region to the North and the East. The Tamil National Alliance sought a clarification from the government and alleged discrimination of its people. It was first performed on the fourth anniversary of independence in early 1952. As a result of a contest, Ananda Samarkone’s contribution, written in Sinhala, was chosen as the new anthem. Tamil political parties in the country threatened that they would boycott the anthem all together if the decision is not revoked. After independence was granted to Sri Lanka (at the time known as Ceylon) in 1948, the need for a national anthem arose. The Ministry of Public Administration is likely to issue a directive to all government departments in the next couple of days.