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Lake House journalist wins award

Veteran writer and journalist, Central Province Lake House correspondent, Palitha Alakeshwara of Dumbaratenna, Kundasale (Kandy) won a provincial level prize at the 2012 Environmental Photographic Competition organised by the Central Environmental Authority to mark the World Environmental Day.

The theme of the competition was Aesthetic Environment . It was held at Royal College hall, Colombo. Alakeshwara won awards for two photographs presented at this competition.

Being a student at Galahitiyawa Central College in Ganemulla, Alakeshwara took to journalism and in 1957, he won the first place at the Christmas short story competition held by the Kumara Mandapaya Childrens' Page of the Janata evening daily Lake House newspaper. In 1960s, he supplied caricatures to Lake House daily Janata.

Adding to his proficiency, he supplied short stories to newspapers and tabloids such as Janata , Yovun Janata and Nava Yugaya magazines.

He also supplied pocket cartoons to the Rasavahini , Sinhala literary magazine. He is a member of the Sri Lanka National Photographic Society. Later, he joined the state-run Heywood Rajaye Kalayathanaya and pursued a training course in photography. He is also a Diploma Holder in Journalism.

Alakeshwara submitted photographs to the Sunday Observer and Daily News for features such as Lassana Sri Lanka.

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