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How Lanka’s National anthem was amended due to superstition-By D.B.S.Jeyaraj Source:Dailymirror The insensitive, superstitious action affected the poet who lamented that his head has been cut off……committed suicide on April 5, 1962.    The charge was that the notations in Namo Namo Matha were unlucky and the cause of the country’s ills and misfortunes.  Sri Lanka is presently experiencing a tremendous economic crisis. Several   knowledgeable persons describe the current period as the worst-ever phase in the Island nation’s 75-year post-Independence history. Many acts of omission and commission are being faulted for this calamity. Mercifully none have blamed Sri Lanka’s national anthem as the cause so far. At least not yet. ...