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Bharatha Prabhashana Thennakoon (Sinhala: භාරත ප්‍රභාෂණ තෙන්නකෝන් also known as Bharatha Thennakoon; born 3 March 1988) is a Sri Lankan author and journalist.

Bharatha graduated in Law. He started his career as a journalist in 2007 and he is working for thirteen years in several media stations. In 2017 he became the Media Manager at People's Bank (Sri Lanka) and in 2018 he was appointed as one of the Media Director of former President of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena.

He has published three novels, three non-fiction books and one translation.

Early life and education
Thennakoon Mudiyanselage Bharatha Malinda Prabhashana Thennakoon, was born on 3 March 1988 in Polgahawela, the son of Jayathilake Thennakoon, a senior lawyer in Kurunegala and Damayanthi Thennakoon. He is the youngest of two; his sister Nishani.

He completed his primary education in St. Bernedette's Model School, Polgahawela and in the year 1999 he moved to Kandy for his secondary education. Bharatha passed his G.C.E. (Advanced Level) in 2007 at St. Sylvester's College, Kandy. Then he entered to Open University of Sri Lanka and graduated in Bachelor of Laws. He completed his Diploma of Journalism in 2005 at National Institute of Television Training, Sri Lanka.

Bharatha married to Wasana Nimali Senarath in 2016.

Politics
Bharatha pledged his support to Maithripala Sirisena's victory in the 2015 Sri Lankan presidential election and then he was appointed as News Editor to the President. And he supported to the United National Party in the 2015 Sri Lankan parliamentary election. Bharatha supported Sajith Premadasa, the candidate of the New Democratic Front (Sri Lanka) party in the 2019 Sri Lankan presidential election.

Political and Administration
He was serving the position of National Organizer Media Secretary of United National Party in August 2015 when he appoint to the position of Media Secretary at the Ministry of Petroleum Resources Development and he resigned from both posts in December, 2016 due to policy reason. Then he was appointed to the People's Bank (Sri Lanka) in January 2017. He is a one of youngest Manager Grade officer who was appointed to the Government own country's second largest bank, ever in history.

In May, 2018 he appointed as the Coordinating Director - Media to the President Maithripala Sirisena. He was responsible for propaganda and communication of special projects, such as "National Food Production Programme", "Presidential Taskforce on Chronically Kidney Diseases", "Grama-Shakthi" and "Smart Sri Lanka" - youth skills development project governed by the Presidential Secretariat under the President Sirisena.

Journalism
Bharatha started his career as a journalist when he was in eighteen. He was trained as a journalist at Swarnavahini. Before that he awarded as the best announcer of the "Swarnabhimanaya 2007" national announcing competition organized by Swarnavahini. He started work for "Sath FM" radio station as a junior presenter and producer. After a twenty month, in 2009 he joined with "Neth FM" radio station as an Executive Current Affairs. At the "Neth FM" he produced "Balumgala" Radio programme what was the leading programme on reveal the truth of various kind of mafias. Then Bharatha joined with the "Youth Radio" later known as "Singha FM", what was under "Carlton Sports Network", in 2011 as a Senior News Editor and Radio Presenter. Shraddha TV is the second television channel he worked as Journalist. For a short time of period, he worked at Ada Derana and in 2013 he joined with "Lak FM" as a Senior Presenter and Producer. At "Lak FM" Bharatha produced "Sodisiya", "Sandakadapahana" and "Lak Udesana". In 2015 he was appointed as the News Manager at "Siyapatha TV".

Bharatha starts his career as a television presenter in 2015 at Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation. The Akura programme was popular on that time. Later he presented Nugasevana and Friday Knowledge First.

In addition to as an Anchor and Producer in radio and television, Bharatha continuous his works as a columnist for almost a decade.

He wrote a weekly column to Rivira Newspaper in 2011. Columns he wrote to Mawbima and "Resa" newspapers in between 2016 to 2019 was mostly popular among readers. "Patharanga", "Jathakaya", "Thumani" and "Aththa Kathawa" completed a hundred columns on that period.

Bharatha continuous his career as a journalist and he is the Executive Editor of "Janayugaya".