{"id":81637,"date":"2018-10-03T16:46:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T23:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=81637"},"modified":"2018-10-03T16:46:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T23:46:28","slug":"religion-culture-in-poetry-music-kandula-brother-charles-thomas-bana-kotuwe-poduhamduruwo-bana-kagagama-sirinanda-himi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/10\/03\/religion-culture-in-poetry-music-kandula-brother-charles-thomas-bana-kotuwe-poduhamduruwo-bana-kagagama-sirinanda-himi\/","title":{"rendered":"RELIGION, CULTURE \u00a0IN POETRY\/ MUSIC- \u201cKANDULA BROTHER CHARLES\u00a0 THOMAS\u201d, \u201cBANA KOTUWE PODUHAMDURUWO\u201d. \u201cBANA KAGAGAMA SIRINANDA\u00a0 HIMI\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>With mass media attention spontaneously received on all forms of acts in Sri Lanka a new wave of public gatherings are being organised in all parts of Sri Lanka.\u00a0\u00a0 Brother Charles Thomas in his illustrious Kandula take our cultural values, love for mother and father and the need to protect Sri Lanka reciting Magey Ratata Samama Samudu Saranai\u201d.\u00a0 This program has a very strong following.<\/p>\n<p>Kotuwe Poduhaduruwo will expose the womens dressing habits, tarnish the image of women, not worhy of a Buddhist Monk.\u00a0 But he has also a very strong following.<\/p>\n<p>Then Kagama Srinandana Thero, trying to be a populist, will pick any thing from Habits of Boys annoying girls going to school to Child Birth. But he has also a very strong following.<\/p>\n<p>Brother Charles Thomas as I understand is still a Roman Catholic, with a diversified knowledge of most religions, especially a deep rooted knowledge of providing analysis of Buddhist Philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>The society need to be watchful.\u00a0\u00a0 There are burning issues faced by the nation, not about dressing habits of women, not about boys passing a Line of Attention of girls, but education of younger generation.<\/p>\n<p>I urge the readers to pick wisely what is best for Sri Lanka. Mushrooms could also be poisonous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE With mass media attention spontaneously received on all forms of acts in Sri Lanka a new wave of public gatherings are being organised in all parts of Sri Lanka.\u00a0\u00a0 Brother Charles Thomas in his illustrious Kandula take our cultural values, love for mother and father and the need to protect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81637","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=81637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}