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October-November 2013

BEST OF THE BEST

WINNING SPEECH “AMMA (MOTHER)”SESSION 403 - TM PANDULA

Since an embryo conceived in a womb……..
For 260 days she under goes a period of
tremendous pain and suffering, Unbearable
Headaches as changes are occurring in a
mother’s body with continuous release of
hormones and chemicals.
She can’t eat properly … every morning she
struggles and vomits for nearly three months,
Carrying 10 to 15 kg in her ever obtruding
tummy ….. Backache… high blood pressure
body aches in numerous places. Then she
bears the most intolerable pain a human
would ever face ……. Labour pains at the
delivery of the baby.
Yet she has no complaints as she under goes
all the pain and suffering during her pregnancy as she is the mother of the expected baby.
Mothers love is incomparable to any other
feeling a living being on this planet would ever
possess.

Even though she is there
no more.
Without a doubt this is common to all human
mothers and 90% or more animal mothers ….
The above song depicts the story of the
mother of the song writer Senior Solicitor
Ranbanda Seneviratne.
Chena cultivation without a shelter, He
compares to his widowed mother, and the
sudden untimely rain is compared to the
extreme poverty for which his mother used
every possible means to avoid exposing him.
There he emotionally portraits the protection,
education and guidance given to him by her
till he became a reputed lawyer in the
country.

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“ONCE IN A
CHENA CULTIVATION
A SUDDEN STORM
CAME DOWN POURING
AS THERE WAS NO
SHELTER...
MY MA...
YOU COVERED ME
UNTIL THE RAIN
VANISHED
NOT
LETTING A SINGLE
DROP
OF
RAIN
FALLS ON TO ME”
In the second phrase he put in to words a
second torrential rain came down in terms of
insult, abuse and disparage in which his
wife’s love and affection washed away in the
Giant Canal (Yoda Ela). Again his mother
comes to console and protect him as he says
how he felt the scent or the fragrance of mother’s love. The mother still is his only refuge
and safe heaven. For a mother her child is
always and forever is her baby whom she
cared and adored, whoever he is to the outside
world; even a criminal or a killer in that
matter.
Finally as he sees a third storm coming
through as the clouds get darker over the city
of Colombo and the strong cold wind comes
ashore and he asks “O mother will you be
there waiting for me at the hedge gate when I
run to you leaving behind all the positions,
grandeur and opulence?”
He only knows one place where he could solicit
the protection and shelter … at his mother
…… even though she is there no more.
This very emotional song which is often
ranked as the best song ever written in Sinhala on mothers love shows the eternal love and
bondage between a mother and a child which
would lasts probably a few or many life times.
Now it is our turn in paying a true tribute to
a great mother by being a true son or a daughter as she ever wanted us to be.

Pandula Medawatte,ACB
PAST AREA GOVERNOR
AREA-46

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