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Rathnayake Liyanage Wishma Sandamali [a] (Sinhala: රත්නායක ලියනගේ විශ්මා සඳමාලි; December 5, 1987 – March 6, 2021) was a Sri Lankan woman who died in custody at an immigration detention facility in Nagoya, Japan, after her requests for provisional release and adequate medical care were denied.
Before entering journalism, Padmakumara collaborated to make the film Nim Walalla becoming the assistant director of the film along with a group of Anandians: Ranjith Lal, Dilman Jayaratne, Gamini Wijetunga, Mahinda Algama, Ranjith Kumara, Premakeerthi de Alwis, Kularatne Ariyawansa, Keerthi Balasuriya and Ratnasiri Rajapaksa and Sunil Madhava Prematilake.
After completing his secondary education with Geography, Sinhala and Buddhist Civilization for G.C.E A/L, he attended the University of Peradeniya, where he continued to study drama under the guidance of Professor Ediriweera Sarachchandra. Manoratne completed his master's degree from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, also obtaining a PhD ...
Rathnayake Arachchilage Jayantha Rathnayake (Sinhala: ජයන්ත රත්නායක; 8 August 1968 – 6 April 2020), popularly known as Jayantha Rathnayake, was a renowned music composer, music director and a singer. [1] One of the most popular musicians in Sri Lanka, Jayantha rose to prominence with the musical band Siha Shakthi. [2]
His funeral was done according to the last will and the instructions he has given to his pupils in the early 1980s. Maha Nayaka thero requested for no state funeral, no publicity in the media, no banners, no ringing of his temple bell and stated that all he had wanted was for his body be cremated within the temple premises, with no coffin. [ 4 ]
Soma Edirisinghe (Sinhala: සෝමා එදිරිසිංහ; 5 July 1939 – 5 November 2015) was a Sri Lankan corporate executive, film producer, philanthropist and social worker. [2] She was born in Meegoda, Sri Lanka on 5 July 1939 to a family of nine daughters, [ 3 ] and died on 5 November 2015 at a private hospital in Colombo . [ 4 ]
Somaweera Senanayake (25 November 1944 [1] – 9 June 2018; Sinhala: සෝමවීර සේනානායක) was a Sri Lankan award-winning teledrama and script writer who also worked as a journalist, short story writer and as a novelist in his career. [2] He died on 9 June 2018 at a private hospital in Colombo at the age of 73. [3]
Ven. Ariyadhamma Mahāthēra was born on 24 April 1939 to a traditional Buddhist family in Kurunegala and was educated at the Government School of Nilagama. His father was a supporter of Most Venerable Vigoda Bodhirakkhitha Mahāthēra, who was resident at the nearby Nā Uyana Āranya forest monastery.