Comments on: Shrillness of Nonsensical Cultural Politics and the Social History of a Song

By: mirrorpond

mirrorpond — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 12:17:00 +0000

I would like to ask the author to imagine “Amazing Grace” being rapped, in a US church on the fourth of July, even in the birth place of rap many would shudder even at the thought of that, section of the Sri Lankans would have felt the same way listening to Danno Budunge in an operatic rendition, especially at the Independence celebration, there is something called common sense, this rendition displayed how out of touch the organizers were with the rest of Sri Lanka.

By: puniselva

puniselva — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 13:47:00 +0000

1.That bhikku shouldn’t have stormed the courts. But ordinary women and men should have stormed this TV station.
WHY or why tolerate this extent of nastiness(I’m just putting it too mildly).
Ohhhhhhh, Buddhist prelates, please please please reform the society as this long arm reaches the ethnic minorities as much as the ‘other’ among the majority as it pleases – UN officials would stop visiting Sri Lanka.

2.Speedo and Jay, this Professor has a good head above his shoulders and a very good heart beneath them. As a Tamil particularly I have been having a great deal of veneration for his writing on these pages..

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:29:00 +0000

Very informative article. It appears that Lalith Ganhewa has made references to one Vishwanath Laugi in his article of the publication World Music, which has been quoted by the author. It would be nice to know where Lalith obtained such information as it seems impossible to find any information about this Hindustani musician on the web. Considering that Ceylon at the time was heavily influenced by Hindustani and Indian Raghadaree music, I believe that the melody was an adaptation of a western tune.

By: Speedo

Speedo — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:10:00 +0000

Well written and enjoyed reading as it enlightened me. Wish this could be translated and published in the Sinhala print media