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ANANDA SAMARAKOON MULTIFACETED ARTISTE ,LITERARY GENIUS,LYRICIST OF NATIONAL ANTHEM,PLAYWRITE,VOCALIST, ACCOMPLISHED PAINTER AT PINNACLE OF FAME \u2013 by Sunil Thenabadu<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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\"Sunil-Thenabadu\"Egodahage George Wilfred Alwis Samarakoon born on the 13th January 1911,to duo Samuel Samarakoon,the Chief Clerk the British owned Maturata Plantations and Dominga Peries in Watareka Padukka.He was popularly known as Ananda Samarakoon was born as the second of four sons to a Christian family. He became\u00a0 a\u00a0 multifaceted individual, possessing a sturdy backbone was an acclaimed Sri Lankan ,Sinhalese lyrics composer, vocalist, playwright , musician and an artist cum painter. He was educated at primary classes at the Wewala school, has had his secondary education at the CMS Sri Jayawardenapura College now renamed as Christian College. He composed the Sri Lankan \u2018National Anthem\u201d, ” Namo Namo Matha\u201d, is considered the father of artistic Sinhalese music and founder of the contemporary Sri Lankan Sinhalese \u2018Geeta Sahitya\u2019 ,the Song Literature responsible for its status which exists to date. He committed suicide on 2nd April 1962, by swallowing an overdose of sleeping tablets ,possibly driven by unauthorized changes to lyrics in his composition of Sri Lanka\u2019s \u2018national anthem\u2019. His Sinhala Guru was Pandit D.C.P. Gamalathge. Later he served his Alma mater as a teacher of Music and Art. Soon Ananda Samarakoon left to the Visva-Bharati University, Shantiniketan in India to study art and music. After six months he had abandoned his studies and returned to the then Ceylon, and changed his name to Ananda Samarakoon, embracing Buddhism. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Afterwards he served as the music teacher of Mahinda College ,Galle from year 1938 to 1942.In year 1937, the popular music of Sri Lanka comprised of songs derived from the North Indian Ragadhari music culture. The lyrics of all songs often contained meaningless phrases with little or no literary merit as for the North Indian music tracks, arbitrary words were inserted. Ananda Samarakoon set out boldly to generate a formula of a music that can be classified as Sri Lanka’s own, came out with the song \u2018Ennada Menike\u2019 (\u0d91\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1\u0daf\u00a0\u0db8\u0dd0\u0dab\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dda) in year 1940, that paved the preliminary foundation for the original artistic Sinhala music as the forerunner to songs of our own culture which was emulated by Gurudevi Sunil Santha subsequently. In year 1940, it is reliably learnt that he had suddenly got up from his deep sleep had in a mighty hurry composed the lyrics of \u2018Namo Namo Matha\u2019 to instil true patriotism and love for his native country. It was first sung by the little Mahindians at the prestigious Olcott Hall in Mahinda College. That song was later selected as the National anthem of Sri Lanka by the Sri Lankan government on November 22nd 1951.The incentive of Rupees two thousand five hundred offered to him as a payment too had been fictitiously claimed by the proprietor of Kumudini book publishers. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n