Media guru felicitated
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Edwin Ariyadasa |
The January issue of Media Today has felicitated the country's oldest
living bilingual journalist Kalakeerthi Edwin Ariyadasa. The magazine
has dubbed him as “Sri Lanka's media man of the era.”
Ariyadasa turned 91 on December 3 last year and still remains active
as a practising journalist, media educator and television commentator.
He was the first person to obtain an honours degree in Sinhala with
English as the subsidiary subject from the University of Ceylon way back
in 1945.
As a journalist he served on the editorial of many Lake House
publications such as the Dinamina, Sunday Observer, Janatha, Daily News
and was the editor of Navayugaya. Even today he contributes to the
Sunday Observer, Dinamina and Silumina.
Dr Tudor Weerasinghe, Buddhadasa Galappatti, Prof Ajantha
Hapuarachchi, Prof Chandrasiri Rajapaksha, Jayantha Rukmani Siriwardena
and Prof Patrick Ratnayake have contributed to the felicitation
volume.The magazine edited by Dineshara Punchihewa is a Creative Media
publication.
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