India, March 3 -- Sri Lanka and Pakistan are examples of countries linked in the past to India that decided that once the British left, so should the only good they did, which was to ensure that the English language was spoken widely across the Indian subcontinent. Sri Lanka could have become another Singapore, but the country fell under the grip of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, who sought to banish both Tamil and English from Sri Lanka, replacing both with Sinhala.
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