Husband's Quiet Suffering From Flight 370
BALDWIN: Now to the heart of why you care and why I care. So much about this story here, this missing plane, it's not for the unknown, it's not for the unprecedented nature of this global search here. No, this is about the 239 people who have not seen, hugged, talked to their kids, their soul mates, their partners, family, friends in two weeks. And for the husband of one of these passengers, he gave CNN just this really personal glimpse of how his family's life has been now that it has been tragically interrupted. His wife is Chandrika Sharma. She is from India. She was on this plane just heading to Mongolia for work. Sharma's wrote a note to his friends and family just to thank them for their personal support, and he in turn shared it with us here at CNN.com. He wrote in part: "I remain focused on what we have at hand by way of information, and stay with the knowledge that Chandrika is strong and courageous," he goes, "that her goodness must count for something, somewhere." And CNN Digital's Moni Basu spoke with Sharma's husband and she wrote this piece. She called it "On Man's Quiet Reckoning on Flight 370." So, Moni, thank you so much for joining us on your vacation nonetheless. We really, really appreciate it. When I was reading your piece, what really jumped out at me at first was the fact that, unlike any of these other families who are in either Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, holed up in these rooms, he said he no. He wanted to stay home, didn't want to hang on every word of these daily press briefings. Why?</s>MONI BASU, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Brooke. He chose to stay at home in the Indian city of Chennai, where he wanted to be surrounded by the people who loved him most, his daughter, his mother, his mother-in-law. He's a very quiet person. And what struck me by what he wrote was that quiet strength coming out in his words. He wasn't crying or publicly showing his grief. He sat down at his home and penned this very, very poignant letter to let all his friends know how he has been managing this time.</s>BALDWIN: And that you found him, that you spoke with him on the phone, that he trusted you to share this very personal note with you and CNN and the world, will you do me a favor and read a little bit more of it for us?</s>BASU: Sure. He wrote that: "For now, I remain open to news that point to clear, incontrovertible evidence of what happened, and actions taken or afoot that can bring the whole incident to a satisfactory close. What is a priority is information that is a step closer to bringing Chandrika back, and for us to plan our next steps to redesign our life from here on." His daughter goes to college in Delhi. And she had come home to be with her father. And he went on to write that both he and his daughter are sort of reevaluating how they might rebuild a daily routine and manage their anxiety and longing for -- she for her mother and he for his wife.</s>BALDWIN: And, in the meantime, you write about in terms of him passing the time, he mentioned how he is really trying to stay in the present by meditating.</s>BASU: Yes. He practices a very ancient form of meditation in India, and he has relied on that meditation to keep his calm. He told me he doesn't really believe in miracles. He wrote that miracles are a way of making sense of what apparently does not make sense. And so he is very practical about the news that he finally may get one day soon. But at the same time, he said that living -- practicing the meditation and keeping calm is the way that he copes with his anxiety.</s>BALDWIN: And this is just one story, one face of the 239 different people on board that plane. Moni Basu, thank you so much. And, please, we urge you to read Moni's full article. Go to CNN.com. It's called again "One Man's Quiet Reckoning" on our home page, CNN.com. Coming up next, we will continue to answer your questions. And let me tell you, you have a lot of them. You have tweeted me, again, my Twitter handle, @BrookeBCNN. You are asking about submarines in the search. You're asking about the cockpit recordings, why we haven't heard more of this transcript yet. And we have told you about the numerous resources all these countries, including the United States, are putting into this search. So, we will take a closer look at the equipment, the ships, the planes, the helicopters, and what challenges they face over these vast ocean seas.