Chitrananda Abeysekera was a veteran broadcaster, poet, writer and an administrator.
16 Facts About Chitrananda Abeysekera
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Chitrananda Abeysekera joined Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, then Radio Ceylon as a radio announcer and retired as the Director of Sinhala Services in 1989.
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Chitrananda Abeysekera was the President of Aganuwara Tharuna Kavi Samajaya for more than a decade and initiated a lot of programs that benefited poets and the public alike.
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Chitrananda Abeysekera restarted Kavi Suwanda, the poetry newspaper for poets.
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Agampodi Harindranath Chitrananda Mendis Abeysekera was born on 7 March 1930 in Kosgoda.
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Chitrananda Abeysekera was the only child of Mr Agampodi Louis Mendis Abeysekera and Mrs Degiri Roslin Henry de Zoysa.
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Chitrananda Abeysekera started his primary education at Kosgoda Sinhala School in Galle district but when he was nine, Chitrananda entered Nalanda College Colombo.
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Chitrananda Abeysekera was a prominent member of the College Debating Team and of the College Culture Club.
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Young Chitrananda Abeysekera was a corporal of Nalanda College Colombo Senior Cadet Corps.
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Chitrananda Abeysekera began work as an English assistant teacher in a village school in the rural town of Menikkadavara in the Dedigama electorate in 1949.
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Chitrananda Abeysekera left this post soon after to lend his hand to the Registrar General's department, Official Languages Commission and the Official Languages Bureau.
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Chitrananda Abeysekera headed the "Govi Jaya Handa" program project during Hon.
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Chitrananda Abeysekera was a very talented and well-known broadcaster and administrator.
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Chitrananda Abeysekera was very popular as a Live Radio commentator.
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Chitrananda Abeysekera participated in several Poetry and Cultural events in Yugoslavia and China.
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Chitrananda Abeysekera became the President of Young Poets' Association of Colombo in 1979 and held this position till his death.