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Ridgeway Thilakeratne

Ridgeway Thilakeratne

Sri Lankan civil servant and broadcaster

Ridgeway Tillakaratne was civil servant of repute & a broadcaster in Sri Lanka. He was chairman and Director-general of the then Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation[1][2]

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Early life and education

Ridgeway was educated at Nalanda College, Colombo. Two of his famous classmates at Nalanda were Chitrananda Abeysekera and Karunaratne Abeysekera and contemporaries being Henry Jayasena, Stanley Jayasinghe and Gunadasa Amarasekara .[3]

Career

Ridgeway Thilakeratne also has held posts of being Government Agent of Pollonnaruwa, Hambanthota, Ratnapura Districts and Permanent Secretary to Ministry of Information and Broadcasting[4]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Gnanam Rathinam - a pioneer Radio Ceylon broadcaster
  2. [2]
    Ridgeway Tillekeratne
  3. [3]
    Chithrananda Abesekara - චිත්‍රානන්ද අබේසේකර Biography
  4. [4]
    brief history of radio and radio drama[dead link]
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