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Music and its delights source:Island Amidst the many reports of gross corruption, discussions on loans from IMF, restructuring, inflation, and the rising rates of road accidents and homicides before sinking in a sea of troubles, I was delighted to be able to listen to the Rupavahinin musical programme of the great masters of Sinhala music like Neville, MS and CT Fernandos , TM Jayaratne, Chitra/Somapala, Milton Perera and others, at noon just before retiring to enjoy my siesta. The most recent to be aired was the music of a great composer and a competent pianist, Nimal Mendis(NM). Nimal has been providing music for several local films after returning from the UK where he had been working. Some of his songs like 1,Ran tikiri sina, 2.Ganga addara, 3.Viovee sansare, 4.Aney sir mage…,have won popular acclaim. Although the program manager wanted to get the comments of listeners via SMS I was not ...