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The Rabindranath Tagore Memorial Auditorium built with Indian grant assistance of Rs. 300 million at the University of Ruhuna, Matara was declared open jointly by Indian High Commissioner Taranjit Singh Sandhu (Right) and Vice Chancellor Gamini Senanayake on Tuesday. The state of art auditorium with 1500 seating capacity is the largest in any of the Universities in Sri Lanka. It has been designed by the famous Sri Lankan Architect Geoffrey Bawa to conform to the philosophy of “Tropical Modernism”.

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