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.
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.