He should have been in Rome this week, with his wife and daughter, marveling at the architectural glory of the Colosseum. He was about to book airline tickets for their summer vacation when his wife left for a work trip.
But she never returned home.
She was one of 239 people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 -- missing now more than three months.
After all this time, K.S. Narendran feels the kind of weariness that comes from hope that is not squashed but not fulfilled either. He is left to imagine the worst of possible truths without knowing.
Invariably, he wakes up with thoughts of Chandrika, the woman he married 25 years ago, as though she is still here, except he now goes for a long morning walk on a workday without having to rush back to the house to give her a ride to the train station.
The lows in his life come pressing down when he must furrow along alone in ventures they did together, when he has to figure out how she might have proceeded.
He joined a fund-raising effort on the crowdsourcing site Indiegogo.com. The goal is to raise $5 million for an independent investigation into what happened to the plane that disappeared shortly after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on March 8.
Narendran feels the effort is an honorable one. He remains open to anything that might offer clues. So far everything has led only to more questions.
Some passengers' families have made no secret of their indignation over the lack of information from officials in charge. Others were caught on camera in their days of utter grief, their unfettered wailing and moaning unbearable to watch.
Read news in full 14/06/14 Moni Basu/CNN
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