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Narada Warakagoda was a student activist in Sri Lanka during the JVP insurrection in late 80s. He actively engaged in student political activities in the student action committee of University of Moratuwa and the inter-university student federation (IUSF). He was one of the four members who produced and operated radio transmission equipment for the JVP's clandestine radio service called Rana Handa. He later migrated to Norway and continued higher education at Norwegian University of science and technology (NTNU). In 2001 he obtained a doctorate from the department of telecommunications of NTNU for a thesis written on the subject of automatic speech recognition.