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BUDDHADASA GALAPATHTHI MULTI GIFTED LITERARY GIANT, AWARD WINNING POET,WRITER, COLUMNIST, CRITIC, LECTURER ,ADJUDICATOR FOR ART AWARDS AT SUMMIT OF FAME IN ILLUSTRIAL CAREER – by Sunil Thenabadu First and foremost, a successful author needs to be vastly innovative, imaginative and to possess immense of perseverance. That might sound obvious, not every author thinks up fantasy worlds full of castles and dragons, but if one wants to be an author, he or she needs to develop idea invention aptitudes. Budhadasa Galapatti is an exclusive author and poet with such attributes. A good update is that one does not need to be a frenzied super-genius to be artistic. The root of creativity is combining existing things in new ways to inspire the reader like Buddhadasa Galappatti has been performing successfully in many fields. The Creativity isn’t just something people with innate talent but skill is that any author could develop. Buddhadasa possesses an admirable ...

VISHARADA JAGATH WICKREMASINGHE REPUTED VOCALIST ,MUSICIAN AT THE SUMMIT OF FAME – by Sunil Thenabadu Visharada Jagath Wickramasinghe was born on 10 April 1966 in Kolonnawa. His father L.K Jinadasa Wickramasinghe and mother Aryawathi Chandralatha who were both were competent music teachers. Hence it was natural for Jagath to have inherited music affiliations from the parent duo in addition to have had innate music skills.His parents were largely involved with many of musical programs in Sri Lanka. Therefore, he used to practice, sing and play whatever his parents did during their rehearsals. It is during those days his potential for singing and playing instruments were discovered by his parents. In 1972, he was studying at Ashoka Kanishta Vidyalaya, Maradana and after triumphing the grade 5 scholarship examination, he attended Ananda College studied up to grade 10. Then he had to enter Anuradhapura Central College as his parents had got an unexpected transfers to Anuradhapura. In the ...