Ahmedabad plane crash: How to make sense
The plane crash in Ahmedabad has left the nation in shock. It's one of the worst aviation disasters in Indian history. What began as just another journey ended as a tragedy. How do we make sense of horrifying events like these? Let's look at this at four levels:
Familial
Technological
National
Individual
Familial
For those directly affected, now is not the time for the light of philosophical justification. Now is the time for the warmth of human connection. The Mahabharata shows this: After the death of Abhimanyu, Krishna consoles Arjuna. Arjuna consoles Subhadra. Not by going into obscure references to some unknown and unknowable karma from the past, but by giving a simple pragmatic principle: when bad things happen, the unwise act in…