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Member of the Board of
Governors
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PROF.SUNANDA MAHENDRA
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Sunanda Mahendra was formerly a professional broadcaster
at home as well as the BBC’s World Service
based in London, where he also read for his doctorate.
He was a visiting fellow in Mass Communication attached
to the Leicester University, UK, and presently holds
the emeritus professorship at the University of
Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. |
The outstanding contribution to his
expertise field of Mass Communication made him the
recipient of the covetous UNESCO Copernicus award
for Social Sciences in 1983.
He won the State Literary Award for the best Sinhala
poetry collection, 2006. Many poems from the collection
are now translated into English. He has won the
State Literary Award for the best original play
script (1993), the best research work (2002) and
the best two Sinhala novels (1964 and 2002 respectively).
Sunanda Mahendra, at present, is a regular contributor
to the Sinhala and English Press in Sri Lanka as
well as the media consultant to LakHanda Radio &
Independent Television Network (ITN). He is a visiting
lecturer for Writer ship and Communication Department
of Sri Jayawardanapura University, Sri Lanka.
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