to continue sighned this in Tamil ( including the ancestor of Mrs Bandaranaike and President Kumaratunge and Jayawardene). The Singhalese king of Kandy needed interpretors in Tamil to deal with the British. There is the incident of a brother of a famous Kandyan Sinhgalese political family heard speking fluent Tamil. and a foiend questioned him regarding this and he jokingly replied. Yes of course I speak fluent Tamil as Iam a Kandyan Radala ( arstrocrat), the higher you go in the Kandayan society the more Tamil you become by blood. This sort of acknowlegement even jokingly will not be admitted during the current political climate,
