{"id":51755,"date":"2016-02-05T19:43:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T01:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=51755"},"modified":"2016-02-05T03:50:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T10:50:01","slug":"bad-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/02\/05\/bad-move\/","title":{"rendered":"BAD MOVE."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Lorenzo<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This song was there sometime back. I was briefly in a Tamil school in Colombo and we sang that in 1990s. Some kids used to TWIST the verse SRI LANKA THAYE into THAMILELAM THAYE (mother Tamil Elam). Goes perfectly. The rest is valid for TE as well as SL.<\/p>\n<p>\u0bb8\u0bcd\u0bb0\u0bc0 \u0bb2\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbe \u0ba4\u0bbe\u0baf\u0bc7 is replaced by \u0ba4\u0bae\u0bbf\u0bb4\u0bcd \u0b88\u0bb4\u0bae\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bbe\u0baf\u0bc7<\/p>\n<p>The SL national anthem in Tamil (Sri Lanka Thaye \u0bb8\u0bcd\u0bb0\u0bc0 \u0bb2\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbe \u0ba4\u0bbe\u0baf\u0bc7) is very similar to the TAMIL NADU anthem (Thamil Thay vaalthu \u0ba4\u0bae\u0bbf\u0bb4\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bbe\u0baf\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bbe\u0bb4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1). Anyone can see where the govt. and PART of the country is going with this!!<\/p>\n<p><b>NZ is a different case. Everyone agrees MAORIS are NATIVES and the ENGLISH are invaders. It is NOT the case in SL.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Now SLs will be divided into THOSE WHO SING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IN SINGHALA and THOSE WHO SING IT IN TAMIL.<\/p>\n<p>Yet another division.<\/p>\n<p>The country is DIVIDED.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.SINGHALA COUNTRY\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013TAMIL COUNTRY<\/b><br \/>\nName\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..Sri Lanka\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..Ilankai or Elam<br \/>\nLanguage\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026Singhala\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026Thamil<br \/>\nNational anthem\u2026\u2026\u2026..Sri Lanka matha\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.Sri Lanka thaye<br \/>\nCapital\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.Kotte\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.Jaffna<br \/>\nWar heroes\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.Army\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.LTTE<br \/>\nWar criminals\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.LTTE\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..army<br \/>\nReconcilaition\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.coexistance\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.Tamil only<br \/>\nHeroes day\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..May 19\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026November 25<\/p>\n<p><b>IF Tamils want to be part of SL, they had a MILLION reasons to do so. Singing national anthem in Tamil will not change ANYTHING. Soon all Tamil kids will be singing \u0ba4\u0bae\u0bbf\u0bb4\u0bcd \u0b88\u0bb4\u0bae\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bbe\u0baf\u0bc7.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>A cyanide ball can be coated in chocolate and sugar but I still call it cyanide.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorenzo This song was there sometime back. I was briefly in a Tamil school in Colombo and we sang that in 1990s. Some kids used to TWIST the verse SRI LANKA THAYE into THAMILELAM THAYE (mother Tamil Elam). Goes perfectly. The rest is valid for TE as well as SL. \u0bb8\u0bcd\u0bb0\u0bc0 \u0bb2\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbe \u0ba4\u0bbe\u0baf\u0bc7 is replaced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51755","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=51755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}