Let me remind Mr. Jayatissa Perera, a most popular question raised by thousands of intellectuals like you during the last few decades from the ARTS Faculties of this little isle: What do you make? What is your product?

Though these questions seemed let us speechless, perhaps, the ARTS academicians’ ensemble silence may be the most probable rejoinder for these questions. The point of these questioners is apparent: the Engineering Faculties make engineers, who make stuff –electronic circuitry, bridges, space capsules, and Medical Faculties make Doctors, who prescribes treatments to patients etc. But the ARTs Faculties? What do they make?

My question is why does an Arts Faculty or any University have to ‘make’ anything besides educated people? What kind of world–view prompted these questioners to assume that every discipline has to ‘produce’ something tangible or somebody hirable?

Generally, ARTS and Humanities disciplines are supposed to foster the intangibles, the immeasurable values of life, the beliefs and forms of art. They abode the morals that make life worth living, that makes existence more than mere material survival and progress, which cannot be measured by definitions.

As per Mr. Perera, "Arts faculties are notorious for violence in our universities." also he notices that too much free time which the Arts students have (as he insists) as one of the reasons for this violence. Would Mr. Perera kindly tell us where can you encounter a reverent place wherein the violence is entirely absent in today’s society?

Since the vast society is been influenced by the violence instigated from politics, can we expect the complete absence of violence within the microcosm where the youth energy is gathered?    One and all shall agree the fact that the University is the ideal milieu for gathering storms and is a place of conflicts.  

In fact, behind the huge production of Arts graduates there is a political reason. Because, the society, where humanities disciplines are living is rather wider than the industrial and material phenomena are surviving. Hence, the political authorities have to grant more on producing such graduates but they have the responsibility of creating the environment to nourish such arts graduates employed in the society to advance the intangibles, the immeasurable values of life, the beliefs and forms of art.