Meet the youth artistes of Jaffna

Exploring need to integrate art and artistes into economic revival of Sri Lanka

- BY SURYA VISHWA

Engada Spot in Manipay Jaffna opening the door to art and artists

TODAY we go North. You can do it too. Take the bus or train or car or van or bike — or truck or anything that has four or two wheels. Or walk (yes, you can get there on slow foot mode - it will take only a few days!! Maybe we can take heed of the fact that the sages of yore used to walk from Jaffna to Kataragama and back.

The Harmony page, as part of our Jaffna tourism promotion campaign has been travelling to Sri Lanka’s North consistently (we generally take the bus or train). While in Jaffna, as we also do in other regions of Sri Lanka — we relentlessly seek out youth talent in multiple sectors while identifying policy gaps by speaking to a wide segment of the population (including representatives of institutions such as the district Chambers of Commerce). Our primary commitment is to highlight untold stories of youth entrepreneurship/art/innovation/invention and promote investment for youth talent. Connected to the above the integrated and overarching goal of our media initiative is to support and influence common sense based Sri Lankan policy making which uplift every human to his or her highest potential and raise the bar of Sri Lanka’s rural expertise while integrating district level voices in central government based discourses.