{"id":97121,"date":"2020-01-01T00:09:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T06:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=97121"},"modified":"2019-12-31T16:14:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T23:14:03","slug":"national-anthem-in-tamil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/01\/national-anthem-in-tamil\/","title":{"rendered":"NATIONAL ANTHEM IN TAMIL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>How to sing the national anthem of Sri\nLanka in Tamil is a question to me as the current National Anthem is in Sinhala\nlanguage and originally it was authored by the lyricist in the Sinhala\nlanguage.&nbsp; If anyone suggests or requests\nto sing in Tamil it will not be a national anthem, but a translation of the\nnational anthem. According to my understanding, all countries in the world sing\nnational anthems in the language lyricist produced although there are people\nliving these countries, who use different languages.&nbsp; For example, in Australia, a considerable\nethnic group that uses Greek, Italian and Mandarin but the government never\nallowed to sing the national anthem in any other language than in English. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why this truth cannot be understood by\nTamils.&nbsp; In India there are more Tamils\nthan in Sri Lanka and Indian national anthem, Jana Gana mana adinayake\njayahe&#8221; sings only in the Hindi language. Are TNA people stupids without\nunderstanding the simple truth or they want to make unnecessary issue ahead of\nthe general election to secure seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS How to sing the national anthem of Sri Lanka in Tamil is a question to me as the current National Anthem is in Sinhala language and originally it was authored by the lyricist in the Sinhala language.&nbsp; If anyone suggests or requests to sing in Tamil it will not be a national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97121","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=97121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}