India, June 15 -- What is the meaning of life? A silly question to ask? And I have no answers to proffer. The one thing I do know is that life is uncertain and unpredictable. Yet, we're supposed to reap a harvest of happiness from a short, challenge-ridden, chaotic stint on this Earth.

The saint even said that we are like dew drops on a leaf. So transient is our existence, so fleeting our sojourn, that we can be summoned to the heavens (and not hopefully the opposite end) at any moment.

The Ahmedabad dreamliner plane crash, which resulted in the cessation of many lives and doubtlessly many dreams, is a stark reminder of our utterly temporary status as living beings. Innocent, unsuspecting, even bubbling, human lives were lost in a flash...