A small but growing number of Tamil professionals from the diaspora are making the decision to relocate to Jaffna. They come with qualifications, language skills, capital, and a desire to contribute to the north's development. What they find on arrival is a city that is simultaneously more developed than they expected and more constrained than they hoped — full of entrepreneurial energy but hobbled by infrastructure deficits and bureaucratic obstacles.
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Returning Home: Tamil Professionals Who Chose Jaffna
A small but growing number of diaspora Tamils are relocating to Jaffna — and finding a city full of opportunity and contradiction.
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