Handunnetti and English in Sri Lanka

Sasanka Perera(This essay was initially published in The Island on 10 December 2025:https://island.lk/handunnetti-and-colonial-shackles-of-english-in-sri-lanka/) When Minister Sunil Handunnetti addressed the World Economic Forum’s ‘Is Asia’s Century at Risk?’ discussion as part of the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2025 in June 2025, I listened to his presentation carefully and to the…