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Old April 28, 2012, 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Habib
Tagore wrote Srilanka's anthem? Where did you get that from? :rofl: It was Tagore's student.
The news has surfaced only recently.

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Like Bangladesh and India, Rabindranath Tagore is the writer of Sri Lankan National Anthem too. We all knew that, Rabindranath is the writer of national anthem of Bangladesh and India. But it is now newly explored that, he is the writer of Lankan anthem too. News reported in Bangla News 24.

Basically, a student of Tagore named Samarkun has translated a Bengali Rabindra song before while Sri Lanka was not independent. Sri Lanka was a British colony before their independence in 1948. Samarkun was studying in Biswabharati where Tagore was his teacher. Once, Samarkun requested his teacher to write a song for his country.

Then Rabindranath Tagore wrote down the song in Bengali. Samarkun translated it and the translated version approved by the committee on national anthem.

Source : http://www.dhakanews.info/sri-lankan...ranath-tagore/
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Though it is not confirmed yet whether Tagore indeed wrote the Sri Lankan anthem, but he did have some influential connection to the song.

This is what Wikipedia has to say:

Sri Lanka Matha is the national anthem of Sri Lanka. The song was written and composed by the Ananda Samarakoon in 1940, and was later adopted as the national anthem in 1951. It was written when Sri Lanka was still a British colony and was initially written as a tribute to Sri Lanka, expressing sentiments of freedom, unity and independence, and not for the purpose of serving as a national anthem. The song however became very popular throughout the 1940's and when Sri Lanka gained independence in 1948 it was chosen to be the national anthem, 3 years later. The first independence day it was sung was in 1952. Ananda Samarakoon was Rabindranath Tagore's student and the tune is influenced by Tagore's genre of music.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Matha
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