Sri Lanka, March 27 -- By Jekhan Aruliah

Mr Ganendran is from Navaly, near Manipay Jaffna. Born in 1975 to a Christian Catholic family, Ganendran had his schooling from Grade 3 to A'Levels at St Patrick's College. St Patrick's is one of the leading Jaffna schools, not far from Jaffna Fort. In the midst of the Sri Lankan Civil War, Ganendran left for the Philippines to join his father's brother. Here he took an IT degree, returning to Sri Lanka a few years later in 2002. Those days most young people wanted to get out of the country to escape the war and seek opportunity. Nowadays the war is over, but the young still seek to exit Sri Lanka imagining a better life in the deserts of the Middle East, the frosts of Toronto and the dubious air qu...