{"id":469,"date":"2011-05-31T11:52:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T11:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhadrajijayatilaka.com\/bud\/?p=469"},"modified":"2011-05-31T11:52:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T11:52:15","slug":"bhadraji-completes-40-years-in-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bhadrajijayatilaka.com\/bud\/news-on-bhadraji\/bhadraji-completes-40-years-in-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhadraji completes 40 years in writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><em><strong>Monday, 01 February 2010<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bhadraji Mahinda Jayathilaka, popular author, artist and singer  celebrates 40 years in writing\u00a0 this year. He began his writing career  by publishing his own children\u2019s story book \u201cPUNCHI\u201d in 1970; Apart from  writing the book, he drew the cover and inside illustrations of  \u201cPUNCHI\u201d the children\u2019s book. So far he has written well over 90 books,  and hopes to publish his 100th book before the end of 2010.<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate this 40th anniversary in writing Bhadraji Fan Club has  planned to launch the long children\u2019s radio play written by Bhadraji and  was produced by the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) called  \u201cLIHINI GALA\u201d (The rock of sea gulls) in book form. It will be held at  the Ananda Samarakoon Studio of the SLBC on February\u00a0\u00a0 2 (Tuesday) from  4.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally the first copy of \u201cLIHINI GALA\u201d will be handed over to the  producer of the children\u2019s radio play Mr. Mahinda Algama. Renowned  Dramatist (late) Sugathapala De Silva and Lucien Bulathsinghala had  later produced his drama scripts to the radio. Altogether Bhadraji has  written 40 scripts to the radio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: http:\/\/print.dailymirror.lk\/news\/provincial-news\/2570.html<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, 01 February 2010 Bhadraji Mahinda Jayathilaka, popular author, artist and singer celebrates 40 years in writing\u00a0 this year. He began his writing career by publishing his own children\u2019s story book \u201cPUNCHI\u201d in 1970; Apart from writing the book, he drew the cover and inside illustrations of \u201cPUNCHI\u201d the children\u2019s book. So far he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-on-bhadraji"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhadrajijayatilaka.com\/bud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhadrajijayatilaka.com\/bud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhadrajijayatilaka.com\/bud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhadrajijayatilaka.com\/bud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhadrajijayatilaka.com\/bud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bhadrajijayatilaka.com\/bud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/bhadrajijayatilaka.com\/bud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhadrajijayatilaka.com\/bud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhadrajijayatilaka.com\/bud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhadrajijayatilaka.com\/bud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}