{"id":105859,"date":"2020-08-25T16:12:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T23:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105859"},"modified":"2020-08-25T16:12:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T23:12:40","slug":"it-is-sri-pada-not-adams-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/25\/it-is-sri-pada-not-adams-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"IT IS SRI PADA NOT ADAM\u2019S PEAK"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>RANJITH SOYSA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Jackson Anthony, the well-known actor, a commentator on his recent YOUTUBE  presentation has touched on the national weakness of attempting to ape the foreigners or more specifically our attempt to act as the Singlish rather than be ourselves, His program on Sri Pada becoming Adam&#8217;s peak to many reminds us the story of colonial English policy of creating the species called Black-Whites or the Brown skinned Englishmen in our society. We can meet them and see them anywhere in day to day life, in media, and also among the VIPs who pretend that they cannot speak in Sinhala or Tamil ONLY but need to add English words when they converse. This stems from the inferiority complex of slaves once freed yet praising that they were wearing masters&#8217; chains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of us. still use the term Adam&#8217;s speak even tough this was invented by Islamic travelers to Sri Lanka since 16th century whereas the name Sri Pada was known for over 2500 years and many kings of Sri Lanka from a century prior to CE  have spoken of Sri Pada and visited the peak while the term is in books such as Mahavamsa, Deepavamsa.\u00a0 Chulavamase and in many inscriptions. Unfortunately, even in our books and articles published in\u00a0 English, we continue to use the term Adam&#8217;s peak, As Jackson Anthony emphasized the discussion was not religious at all, but about our culture and national inheritance. <br> <br>From now on-wards can we decide to refer to this holy and scenic mountain as Sri Pada always. <br> <br> \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RANJITH SOYSA Jackson Anthony, the well-known actor, a commentator on his recent YOUTUBE presentation has touched on the national weakness of attempting to ape the foreigners or more specifically our attempt to act as the Singlish rather than be ourselves, His program on Sri Pada becoming Adam&#8217;s peak to many reminds us the story of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranjith-soysa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}