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joke with me by throwing coke over me but in
seconds I realised it was something else
because my face and neck was burning
..................... I pulled the scarf of the boy and
asked ... Jolly what the hell did you do ?????.
He just ran away and I started shouting ..... and
my boss who was still over the phone heard me
shouting. His house was not far away from
office, so he within seconds came back to
office. Mean time I left my shawl there and
rushed towards the toilet where I tried my best
to pour as much as possible water over me. I
was crying and seeing my skin burning and
blooming. I could see my cardigan and then my
shirt getting burnt and the skin on my left arm
getting burnt.
Meanwhile my dad was also there. He could
see my shawl left on the floor and was shocked
for it. He came in the office and shouted for me.
My boss hurriedly told him nothing and asked to
be in car and wrapped in a cloth and took me to
hospital. My father is physically handicapped,
(because of a rod in his leg) . My dad just kept
driving the car, anxious enough to see what had
happened to me.
My boss took me out of the car in the hospital
and immediately hurried me to ICU. the doctors
and nurses in the hospital were very known to
my father and my boss. My boss's wife was a
permanent staff member of the hospital and my
dad being in pharmaceutical business had very
close and friendly relations with the doctors of
the hospital.
I was hospitalized in two different hospitals for
over a period of 7 months. Where I had three
surgeries. I was completely burnt on the left
side of my face, the upper part of my left hand,
my left side of back and my left arm. Those
seven months were the greatest trouble of me
and especially the day when I saw mirror, I was
torn apart. I could not believe myself.
The boy who did all this was actually a student
of NIIT, who claimed to be in love with me. HE
did decently approach me for marriage.
Because of difference in cultures and religion, I
calmly explained him that it was not possible,
but he still insisted. In end, I told him that I have
no problems only if my parents approach to
this. He told his family and then the boy’s father
came over to my house for this to which my dad
didn’t agree upon. But still since the boy wanted
to be in touch, we decided to end up being
good friends so that he could at least know how
was I doing in life?. But when he came to know
that I had applied for job overseas, he could
possibly not take this thought and decided that
he would do something to me that would make
me live for him for always. But he never
realized that his obsessions would ruin my life.
He was put behind bars.
Life goes on and I had to fight for my parents
and my younger brother. I decided to study
further. I joined a Post Graduate course in Hotel
Management in Switzerland and went there. I
still needed doctors and thanks to the wonderful
help and guidance of my school authorities. I
underwent another two surgeries in
Switzerland. I am now living in UK, since I
believe I have a long battle to win. I am still
undergoing steroid injections on my face, which
is pain in themselves. I decided to fight for my
parents. I just couldn’t be in India and could
have ever fought for myself against the society.
So the best I could thin, I have done. My face
still reflects of what I have gone through but
with each passing day, my determination is
getting more and more and the will to fight is
increasing.