Zen Café of Jaffna

THE Zen Café in Jaffna is a typical sample of youth entrepreneurship that focuses on youth integration across ethnicity.

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It is the only café in the entire North of Sri Lanka where you find Sinhalese Baila songs alongside Tamil music.

It is a place where one has no chance for seats after 3pm when the Jaffna university student population — Tamil youth, Sinhalese and Muslims converge in throngs.

The positive vibe is palpable.

If you are jaded in your thinking and feel that life is over for you, then try going to the Zen Café in Jaffna. It is located in Kokuvil close to the Jaffna University. You may see life differently and realise the happiness that young people feel eating the simplest of snacks is best emulated across all age boundaries.

This café is run on the philosophy of peace. It is the soul effort of two brothers, aged 22 and 25 who had taken it upon themselves to uplift their family while freeing themselves from the ‘Nine-to-Five’ structure. What we place today here is not a detailed description as we would like (on account of page space limitation) on this signature sample of what youth entrepre-

neurship could mean for national unity. However this is a synopsis that matches our main write up on Northern investment.