Let us be united in hope and love

THESE are trying times indeed. Flight MH370 vanishes, and after a week, it remains, as the DCA chief puts it, “an unprecedented aviation mystery”. The new information revealed yesterday has taken the search into new territories but the closure that we so desire will still be some time coming.

And for a crisis of this magnitude, it is natural that we have to deal with a whole range of emotions depending on whether we are directly affected or just one of the many concerned observers.