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Sinhalese New Year, generally known as Aluth Avurudda (Sinhala: අලුත් අවුරුද්ද) in Sri Lanka, is a Sri Lankan holiday that celebrates the traditional New Year of the Sinhalese people and Tamil population of Sri Lanka.
Since child age, Hettiarachchi participated in the singing competitions for the Sinhala New Year, Vesak and Poson where he was first in all these competitions. [5] He wrote and mailed a song in his own words such as "Jayabhumi Sri Lanka - Rakaganna Jaya Bhumi Lanka" for a singing competition. [12]
There are 73,849 Australians (0.4 of the population) who reported having Sinhalese ancestry in 2006. Sinhala was also reported to be the 29th-fastest-growing language in Australia (ranking above Somali but behind Hindi and Belarusian). Sinhalese Australians have an exceptionally low rate of return migration to Sri Lanka.
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Theravāda New Year, also known as Songkran, is the water-splashing festival celebration in the traditional new year for the Theravada Buddhist calendar widely celebrated across South and Southeast Asia in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, parts of northeast India, parts of Vietnam, and Xishuangbanna, China [2] [3] begins on 13 April of the year.
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In 1954, D. B. Dhanapala, the editor of the Lankadeepa newspaper, and Mahanama Dissanayake, the deputy editor, started a competition to select a national 'Maha Kaviya' (epic poet). The aim of this competition was to select a poet who can write the history of the Sinhala nation of 2500 years for the 1954 Sinhala New Year.