Without justice, can unbearable grief subside?
6/16/202654 min
Sujata Berry's brother, Sharad was 16 years old when he was killed. He was aboard Air India Flight 182 when it exploded off the coast of Ireland on June 23, 1985. It's considered the worst terror attack in Canadian history. For Sujata, the shock of his horrific death morphed into an unshakeable grief. The family's sorrow was augmented with the lack of justice for victims' families — a flawed investigation, evidence lost and what Sujata says was "an unsatisfactory verdict." It's taken Sujata 40 years to chip away at her grief and try to understand what happened to her and her family. She explores love, loss and the grief that binds them in her documentary, All that Remains. *This episode originally aired on Sept. 17, 2025.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 1· Soundbite0:00
[theme sound] This is a CBC podcast.
Nahlah Ayed· Host0:03
[birds chirping] [singing] Welcome to Ideas. I'm Nahlah Ayed.
Speaker 1· Soundbite0:26
[singing] By late tonight, more than 100 bodies have been recovered from the scene of the Air India crash off the coast of Ireland. Rescue workers reported widespread wreckage, but no sign of survivors.
Sujata Berry· Guest0:46
[singing] The first few days are a bit of a blur. It's kinda like the TV's on with the news, and at some point within the first day or so, it, you, you hear that there's a crash, and then you start seeing photos of the debris, and our home starts filling up with people who knew us.
Speaker 4· Soundbite1:14
[singing] Two busloads of relatives are said to have traveled to the Irish coast, simply to look out at the ocean where