Nihal Bhareti was a radio announcer with the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation in Colombo.

He joined Radio Ceylon in the 1960s.

Bhareti joined the station when it was popular across South Asia.

[1] He was appointed by Livy Wijemanne who was by then Director of the Commercial Service of Radio Ceylon, and presented the magazine program Radio Journal for a decade.

He became Director of English Services of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation in the 1980s.