SriLanka, May 24 -- Apowerful demand for a fresh approach echoed through the prestigious halls of Oxford University this week, challenging long-held traditional knowledge. Addressing an audience on May 19, 2026, Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya delivered a watershed speech titled, "The Politics of Development: Sri Lanka and Beyond".

As a woman leader from the Global South who transitioned from an academic and grassroots activist to the highest echelon of State power, her address was not merely a diplomatic formality. It was a fierce, decolonial dismantling of mainstream development orthodoxies, a defence of feminist governance, and a call for the Global South to reclaim its sovereign agency. In her speech, she methodically deconstr...