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Darshana Ashoka Kumara is a Sri Lankan journalist as well as a book author. Darshana is News Editor (English) of Independent Television Network, Sri Lanka.

Darshana used to be a full-time journalist to the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation and a freelancer to Ceylon Today. He is also a lyricist and composer. Darshana has launched 5 books so far in journalism and media studies. His latest book titled Thorathuruwalata Hadawathak presents a critique on the modern-day media practice at the global scale.^[1]

He is a fellow of the South Asia Climate Change Award (SACCA) and Asia Journalism Fellowship, Singapore. He is a computer science graduate of the Sri Jayawardhanapura University and obtained his MA degrees from the Kelaniya University in Mass Communication and Sinhala. Darshana has been awarded with a PhD in philosophy from the University of Peradeniya.