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"If the situation became precarious, I could always take a flight to my other home, the UK, but this is obviously not an option for your news reporter in the north.Since returning to Sri Lanka, I often wondered what my life might have been like had my family not left. Would my life be so different from the journalists I met at Uthayan had my family stayed in Jaffna?"Via http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/viewfinder/2014/09/news-from-jaffna-2014926135629688613.html