History of Sri Lanka’s National Anthem mired in controversy 27 March 2015 06:14 pm - 0 - 38447 A A A By D.B.S. Jeyaraj ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s new government declined to sing the national anthem in Tamil, the country’s second national language, during the island’s Independence Day ce… ...

PTI/ Updated: Dec 12, 2010, 20:28 IST Print this article Reduce font size Increase font size Now the national anthem—’Sri Lanka matha....’ can only be rendered in the majority Sinhala ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A Tamil-language version of Sri Lanka’s national anthem was performed at the country’s independence ceremony on Thursday, lifting an unofficial ban in another step ...

The Tamil anthem is an exact translation of the Sinhala version, sung to the same tune, and has been around since Sri Lanka gained independence in 1948.

Sri Lanka denied on Monday plans to outlaw the singing of the national anthem in Tamil after the main minority party raised strong objections to the mooted ban. | World News ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka has scrapped its national anthem’s minority Tamil language version, a move that may add to the country’s ethnic tensions after a bloody decades-long civil war ...

A Tamil-language version of Sri Lanka's national anthem was dropped from Independence Day celebrations on Tuesday, with critics saying the move was a setback to reconciliation after years of ethnic ...

Colombo, Feb 4: Lifting an unofficial ban, Sri Lanka’s national anthem was today sung in Tamil at a ceremony here to mark the the country’s independence day, in an effort to achieve ...

Colombo: A Tamil-language version of Sri Lanka's national anthem has been sung at the country's independence ceremony, lifting an unofficial ban in another step toward post-civil war ethnic ...