Tilak Jayaratne (December 30, 1943 – September 7, 2012) was a Veteran broadcaster, media personnel, teacher and researcher and writer to Radio and television.
He was instrumental in introducing alternative media forum for people Involved in the electronic media for the last 30 years.
His Scripts of five avant-garde teleplay which ‘Andukola’, ‘Kadulla’, ‘Nadunana Puttu’, ‘Wanaspathi’, ‘Dande Lu Gini’ and ‘Kampitha Vil’ a result of ethnographic research conducted living with the community of people was outstanding themes to the teledrama industry Highly acclaimed.