Life After MH370

There are at least 239 stories waiting to be told at length – those of the families of 239passengers of MH37 how their lives took a turn on March 8th 214 when MH37disappeared.This is the story of one person Naren who lost his wife Chandrika on that flight.The probability of survivors diminished with each passing day. As the months went byNaren remained pre-occupied wrestling over what to believe. Some friends arguedinsistently against doomsday conclusions and spoke of their dreams as the basis tokeep up hope. Many others including Naren’s daughter preferred silence overpredictions. The one argument against which there was no counter was: Where is theevidence? Where is the debris? Where are the passengers?Life After MH37 documents Naren’s experience with loss grief trauma and sorrow.The struggle with ‘ambiguous loss’ morphs into a ceaseless search for the scent of acover-up for the truth for that explanation that satisfies and helps one move on. A lossthat meant critically resizing shared dreams reconfiguring relationships and attemptingto find a purpose that anchor him in the present.There is the hint of a promise in KS Narendran’s story – of existential truths about livingand dying that might help anyone who comes upon this book.