The Days Of Our Lives

 

A Short True Story

Part I

In my previous company I was friends with 2 people called Deepesh and Simran (names changed as to not reveal identities) who had been going around for almost 8 years (since their college time). Simran was affected by cancer in college time and had undergone a lot of chemo therapy at that time. At the time I left GlobalLogic (my previous company) to join my curent company -in September last year- Simran was getting unwell again - cancerous bone marrow infection. She started taking lots of days off sick leave from work for her treatment at a reputed cancer institute in Delhi. Rest of the time, when she wasn't having her treatments - she and Deepesh used to hang out together going shopping and even meeting up with friends. Finally, I had gotten to know from Deepesh that Simran was going to Bombay for some special treatment which could not happen in Delhi. This was a month ago.

Since communicating with Simran was a problem (supposedly her phone was switched off the entire month), on inquiring about her health from her parents, one fine day, we found out that she had gotten married to someone else! Through the magic of social networking sites on the internet it was confirmed that she had gotten married a couple of weeks ago and tracing the IP contained in the header of her last sent mails, we found out that she was mailing from New Jersey, USA. Mind you, not a single mail contained anything about her getting married and all she mentioned time and time again to Deepesh was the fact that she was really unwell and was unconscious for 15-20 hours, making it difficult to contact anyone outside the hospital. She even mentioned that she would be back next weekend to watch a movie together.

What was really sad was the fact that Deepesh's mom had passed away, when he was a baby, from cancer and the girl knew that and was just playing with his emotions the entire time while hiding the other man in her life. She had supposedly gotten engaged to now-husband way back in August last year itself, yet continued fooling Deepesh, who not only used to pick and drop her from home (a 50 km diversion from his usual route to office) but had spent almost 300-400k rupees on her during that time including giving her loads of cash on her request for her *treatment* and spending hundreds of thousands for processing her H1B visa to the USA. Also, he had moved out his house after having a spat with his dad about them not accepting Simran. (a typical scenario at many Indian families)

Obviously when I found out how badly he had been duped, I picked up a few of our friends along the way and rushed to Noida. He seemed mentally scarred, plus he had no real support from his family about this. We consoled him nearly for 12 hours that day. The way the girl cold-heartedly conned the innocent fellow is something I'm sure none of us have ever experienced before. We are still debating over whether the guy should just let the girl lead a ever-happy life with her obviously ignorant husband, without any interference from any of us.

Edit: Removed some specific details.  
This entry was posted on Thursday, May 01, 2008 at 11:29 PM.