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DHARMADASA WALPOLA RASIKA SAMAJAYA’ TO FELICITATE DHARMADASA WALPOLA  ON HIS 39th DEATH ANNIVERSARY – by Sunil Thenabadu It is a pity that even many reputed artistes in native Sri Lanka, after their demise had not been felicitated or saluted by our numerous governments having a responsible Cultural Ministry too. Dharmadasa Walpola is one such example having expired at the age of fifty six years on the 25th December 1983.After his demise a group of his ardent fans in Kandy had formed a society named ‘Dharmadasa Walpola Rasika Samajaya” based at number 96B Kotugodella Veediya ,Kandy.This was interestingly more predominantly as Dharmadasa Walpola was a native of Deiyannawea, Kandy. All key members of the fan club organized at intervals many commemorative events for late Dharmadasa Walpola by organizing ‘pinkamas’, almsgivings, blood donation campaigns with the backing of all key members of the Dharmadasa Walpola Rasika Samajaya”. In year 2013 the members had organized a commemorative death anniversary ...