‘In Black and White’ was Milinda’s first television programme which ran for over four years. The programme was a series of one-on-one interviews of leading international and domestic figures in the worlds of politics, diplomacy, business, journalism, law, public affairs, and the arts. ‘In Black and White’ was the first Sri Lankan television talk show to be internationally broadcast. It was carried on Channel News Asia, a Singaporean network which is telecast in Asia and the Middle East. It also featured the first televised satellite interview, when Milinda interviewed from Sri Lanka the President of the World Bank who was in Washington. During the course of the series more than eighty guests appeared, including:

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 Mahathir Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia
 
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 I.K. Gujral, former Prime Minister of India
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 Chandrababu Naidu, former Chief Minister of Andra Pradesh
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 Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan
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 Thakshin Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand
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 Chris Patten, Former Governour of Hong Kong, European Cabinet Minister
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 William Hague, Former Leader of the British Conservative Party
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 Eric Solheim, Norwegian Peace Facilitator and current Minister of Int'l Development
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 Peter Arnett, former CNN correspondent
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 Anita Pratap, former CNN correspondent
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 James Wolfenssohn, former President of the World Bank
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 Thomas Friedman, New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist
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 Daniel Yergin, Economist and Author of "The Commanding Heights
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 Amitav Ghosh, Booker Prize-winning Author
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 Anjalie Menon, Internationally renown Indian Artist
 
 
 
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