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unusual facts about Sinhala


Parawarthana

Parawarthana is a 2014 Sinhala-language Sri Lankan film directed by cinematographer Jayanath Gunawardhana.


Aaryan Dinesh Kanagaratnam

He has also sung a few Sinhala songs such as "Kalu Nano", "Rosi Ogaiya", and "Meter Song (Sinhala version of Why This Kolaveri Di). He rapidly grew to fame after his remix on the Sri Lankan classic baila song "Surangani", titled "Surangani Remix", which is a bilingual song (Tamil & Sinhala). He then went on to create a fully Tamil version titled "Aathichudi", and this became a very famous and popular song in Tamil Nadu.

Alec Garden Fraser

Architecturally one could see the best of Sinhala Architecture, with designs and carvings similar to those one could see in Polonnaruwa, an ancient capital of Sri Lanka.

All Ceylon Tamil Congress

The ACTC was largely discredited when their ally the UNP moved away from bilingual and bicommunal policies towards a pro-Sinhala stance.

Amateur film

Pooja Umashankar a well known Sinhala-Tamil Star debuted in AFI opposite Abhishek Venkteshwar in Mirage.

Appu

Puran Appu (1812–1848), alias Puran Appu (In Sinhala:පුරන් අප්පු) is one of the notable personalities in Sri Lanka's history

B. A. W. Jayamanne

He played a major role in the making of the first Sinhala film Kadawunu Poronduwa in 1947; Jayamanne achieved a level of popularity as a director with movies starring Rukmani Devi and Eddie Jayamanne in the 1950s.

Buddhist Cultural Centre

After installing a new printing press the centre started printing new books, both in Sinhala and English; well over 500 books on Buddha Dhamma, Buddhist Literature, history, culture, philosophy, languages such as Pali and Sanskrit by renowned scholars were printed there.

Calypso-style baila

Sri Lankan groups such as Los Cabelleros led by Neville Fernando (first ever Sinhala pop group), Las Bambas, The Humming Birds, Los Muchachos, and The Moonstones (whose members included Annesley Malewana and Clarence Wijewardane) practiced this music, which melded Caribbean rhythms to traditional Sri Lankan baila music.

Champika Ranawaka

Originally a member of the Sihala Urumaya, a Sinhala nationalist political party, he joined the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) political party along with members of the Sihala Urumaya as only supportive and advisory personal, when it was formed in 2004 to wield candidates who were all Buddhist monks, for Parliament in the 2004 general election.

Colvin R. de Silva

His tasks included drafting the new republican constitution of Sri Lanka, which is seen by Kumari Jayawardena as the first constitutional enshrinement of Sinhala chauvanism which had previously been limited to statute law.

Dayananda Gunawardena

"Kaamare Pore" (1962) Produced as a single stage drama in Sinhala this is an adaptation of the Play 'Box and Cox' by the English playwright John Maddison Morton and It was first staged without any songs.

Dharmasiri Bandaranayake

In 1999, Bandaranyake first staged the play Trojan Kanthawo which adapted Euripides' Greek drama The Trojan Women for a Sinhala and Tamil audience.

Edwin Ariyadasa

Amarica Ithihasaye Jiwmana Wartha - Sinhala Translation of "Living Documents of American History" by Prof. Henry Steele Commager*Jayagrahanayaka Piyasatahan - Sinhala Translation of Jimmy Carter’s Autobiography – "Why not the Best?"

Golden palm civet

Both golden and Asian palm civet are sometimes collectively called kalawedda in Sinhala and maram nai in Tamil.

Henry Jayasena

Henry Jayasena (Sinhala:හෙන්රි ජයසේන) (6 July 1931 - 11 November 2009) born in Bendiyamulla, Gampaha is a Sri Lankan film actor and dramatist.

I. M. R. A. Iriyagolla

He also translated Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables from French into Sinhala as Manuthapaya which became quite popular among readers.

Jackson Anthony

In addition to that he worked with Clarence Wijewardena;one of the most respected Sri Lankan musicians in Sinhala music, as a supporting singer for a sinhala teledrama called "Susima"

Karunaratne Abeysekera

Abeysekera was also behind the Sinhala translation of classic hits such as ' Master Sir' written and composed by Nimal Mendis.

Kiddies Corner

The programme built up a huge following on the island and thousands of children tuned in to listen to 'Uncle Craig,' over the airwaves of Radio Ceylon—the programme had a mix of stories, plays, maths tables, children's songs sung by a range of artistes such as Burl Ives, Danny Kaye and Max Bygraves together with children's folk songs in Sinhala and Tamil.

Kusuma Karunaratne

An academic career began with her appointment as an assistant lecturer of the Department of Sinhala at the University of Ceylon.

Lōmāfānu

The Divehi Akuru script used on the plates was named "evēla akuru" by H. C. P. Bell who claimed that it resembled medieval Sinhala script.

Mabola, Sri Lanka

Rawlathus Saliheen Ahadiya School is conducted in mabole.As sinhala medium schools in mabola are St.Mary's Maha Vidyalaya and Sri Siddhartha Maha Vidyalaya.There is only one Tamil medium Muslim school Al-Asraff Maha Vidyalaya.Mabole is next to hendala.It's located in Negombo road and it's the route for travel to Bandaranaike International Airport.

Media bias in South Asia

The Saturday Review, the English paper published in Jaffna and the Aththa, the Communist Sinhala language daily were banned in the early eighties under the PSO.

Munneswaram temple

The temple is located in Munneswaram, a village with mixed Sinhala and Tamil population situated in the historic Demala Pattuva ("Tamil division") region in the Puttalam District.

Na Uyana Aranya

Nā Uyana Aranya Senāsanaya (Sinhala: නා උයන ආරණ්‍ය සේනාසනය, meaning ‘Ironwood Grove Forest Monastery’) is a Buddhist forest monastery in Kurunegala, Sri Lanka, associated with the Sri Kalyani Yogasrama Samstha.

Northern Theater of Eelam War IV

Silavaturai, named after the small partidge (bird) known in Sinhala as "kirava", is a coastal location that served as a supply point for the LTTE in the Mannar (Mannaārama) area.

Ramendra Kumar

Ramen's work has been published and reviewed in major newspapers and magazines and translated into several Indian languages as well as Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian, Sinhala, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

Shayama Ananda

Shyama Ananda (Sinhala:ශාමා ආනන්ද), popularly known as Chandi Shyama is a Sri Lankan actress and award winning star who appeared in several films of Sinhala cinema.

Shesha Palihakkara

With the help of director Mike Wilson and Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Palihakkara developed the first Sinhala colour film Ran Moothu Doowa in 1960 for his production group Serendib Productions.

Sihor

This is how, Sihor offers some exciting chapters of its connection with Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka's early history and Sinhala people/culture.

Sinhala Kingdom

From Sinhala Diva' (Island of Sinhala) are derived the Persian/Arabic Serendip or Sarandib, and the European 'Ceilao', 'Zeylan' and 'Ceylon'.

South Asian Anthem

Hindi, English, Nepali, Bangla, Pashto, Urdu, Sinhala, Dzongkha and Dhivehi .

Sri Lankan leopard

A further complicating factor is that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers) were colloquially known to the Sinhala-speaking community as 'Koti', the plural form of 'Kotiyā'.

Sri Sangamitta Balika National School, Matale

Sri Sangamitta Balika National School, Matale ( Sinhala : ශ්‍රී සංඝමිත්ත බාලිකා විද්‍යාලය ) is a Government school for girls located in Matale, Sri Lanka.

St Peter's College, Colombo

Peter's College (Sinhala: සාන්ත පීතර විදුහල, Tamil: செயிண்ட் பீட்டர் கல்லூரி) is a boys-only primary to secondary (inclusive) school in the Bambalapitiya zone of Colombo, Sri Lanka, founded in 1922.

St Peter's College, Gampaha

Peter's College, Gampaha (Sinhala: සාන්ත පීතර විදුහල, Tamil: செயிண்ட் பீட்டர் கல்லூரி) is a boys-only primary to secondary (inclusive) branch school of St Peter's College, Colombo in the Udugampola zone of Gampaha, Sri Lanka, founded in 1993.

St. Joseph's Boys' College, Nugegoda

Joseph's Boys' College (Sinhala: සාන්ත ජොසප් පිරිමි විදුහල) is a distinguished boys only primary to secondary (inclusive) school in the Nugegoda Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Sucharitha Gamlath

He graduated with First Class Honours for classical Indian languages and Sinhala language at the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya and carried away the awards, The Rowland’s Gold Medal, The Jayanayake Prize and The Oriental Research Scholarship.In the same year, he was appointed Assistant Lecturer in Sinhala of the same University.

Ten Giant Warriors

Much is written of the great war of 205 BC to 161 BC between Sinhala King Dutugemunu and a South Indian Tamil invader Elara for the City of Anuradhapura, and the central role played by Dutugemunu’s Ten Giant Warriors (දසමහා යෝධයෝ) or the great warriors (dasa maha yodhayo in sinhalese) – the dasa maha yodha.

Thun Man Handiya

Thun Man Handiya (Sinhala, Three Way Junction) is a 1970 dramatic film made by Sri Lankan artist Mahagama Sekera.

Upali Wijewardene

Philip Upali Wijewardene (Sinhala:උපාලි විජයවර්ධන) (17 February 1938 - 13 February 1983) was a well-known businessman in Sri Lanka who established the Upali Group which had interests in a variety of enterprises, including the domestic air line named Upali Air.

Victor Ratnayake

Matara Achchi is the first film he composed music for and its Sandakada Pahana song sung by Sunil Edirisinghe is still very popular among Sinhala music fans.


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