K. S. Narendran remembers clearly the last day he spent with his wife Chandrika Sharma before she left their home in Chennai, India, for Kuala Lumpur enroute to Beijing and then on to Ulan Bator, Mongolia.It was March 7. They had spent the day talking about various issues including building a house in the hills of Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu state to be close to nature and their only child Meghna who studies at a college in New Delhi, some 2,000km away from home.
The 50-year-old consultant never imagined that it would be the last time he would see his wife who headed the International Collective In Support of Fishworkers (ICSF).
Chandrika, 51, was among five Indian nationals on board the Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which disappeared on March 8.
“She was going to Beijing to take a connecting flight to Ulan Bator. Kuala Lumpur and Beijing were just stops before her final destination,” said Narendran.
It has been more than 60 days since Chandrika along with 226 other passengers and 12 crew on board MH370 went missing. And up till now, there is still no news of her or the plane. She was supposed to have returned home on March 15.
Narendran said although he and Chandrika were always busy with travel and work throughout their 25-year marriage, and were used to each other's absence from home, her prolonged disappearance without the certainty of her return is distressing.
“I cannot dictate when the tears fall. They do sometimes but life has to go on. The reality is that I am alive. I cannot let myself drown in sorrow. It is not how I would like to live my life,” he said.
14/05/14 Muzliza Mustafa
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The 50-year-old consultant never imagined that it would be the last time he would see his wife who headed the International Collective In Support of Fishworkers (ICSF).
Chandrika, 51, was among five Indian nationals on board the Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which disappeared on March 8.
“She was going to Beijing to take a connecting flight to Ulan Bator. Kuala Lumpur and Beijing were just stops before her final destination,” said Narendran.
It has been more than 60 days since Chandrika along with 226 other passengers and 12 crew on board MH370 went missing. And up till now, there is still no news of her or the plane. She was supposed to have returned home on March 15.
Narendran said although he and Chandrika were always busy with travel and work throughout their 25-year marriage, and were used to each other's absence from home, her prolonged disappearance without the certainty of her return is distressing.
“I cannot dictate when the tears fall. They do sometimes but life has to go on. The reality is that I am alive. I cannot let myself drown in sorrow. It is not how I would like to live my life,” he said.
14/05/14 Muzliza Mustafa
