It was around 5:30. I was waiting for the bus or a cab towards airport eagerly. I was checking the time again and again as I needed to go to Airtel office. Suddenly I could see one young boy was walking towards me; It seemed he was lost there. He was looking for help I guess .As he came near to me he just wanted to know, the address of RS softwares , as he could not locate it after a lot of roaming here and there.He also let me know that he was new in Kolkata and was not familiar with the routes and places of Kolkata
I directed him to RC and told him the route.
He took few steps and suddenly took a turn and asked me was that (RS softwares) too far and again started conversing with me.
As our conversation continued he let me know that he was a BCA student of 2011 and in a need of a job urgently. He owed a handsome amount of loan from bank and he had to return the amount with a certain period or he would not be provided his certificate.
He also expressed how badly he needed a job, and how was he submitting his CV in the companies forcibly(The forced application) . But none could give a satisfactory response or a word of hope. He felt miserable.He also let me know that his family is not financially strong and can not afford the finance which is required to pay his debt to bank. He asked me whether I could help him out or could I provide him some kind of source in my company?
I was a bit puzzled actually as he owed a costly handset and was wearing stylish and trendy clothes. Nevertheless he did not look like a that poor and miserable one.
After some time he was insisting to give my mobile number, so that he can further contact me and incase I gain any news of vacancy then I could let him know.
Although I did not agree to provide my mobile number but yes I have provided my gmail id and he told that he would send me the CV as early as possible incase I can help him.
On my way to home, at the bus, I was consumed with the thought of the boy, how miserable he was , how poor he was..I felt so sad as I knew that ,I could not help him out in any way and was pondering in my mind whether I could ask someone to help him out to find a job.. Even I started thinking about the imbalance in distribution of money and was wondering how some are born so lucky and some are really less lucky. The thought actually saddened my mood for that dayL.
Ohh forgot to say that after this conversation also I did not know his name , actually I forgot to ask .
Just on the following day I got a mail from some Raghav thanking me for my help to spot the RS Softwares and in the mail he also written how he wanted to make a friendship with me, as he knows no one reliable in Kolkata. I could understand who Raghav was and I felt something fishy here, as neither there was CV attached nor he mentioned it. Rather his was curious about my hobbies., my past time, my home details…
I was just thinking to reply to his mail suddenly due to some impulse, I thought of checking his mail id in Google and tried my luck to see whether I could find any evidence of him or not.
As I tried to search any result with his mail id I got couple of results , and those results showed something strange and related with gigolo ( ohh yes and he is not new in Kolkata either).
After reading some of the content I could guess something was wrong with the boy But I was not sure as I did not know the meaning of Gigolo till then.
I searched again in Google 'What is Gigolo ?' and found a long list of results. This made all the things clear ... And I felt so surprised and it seemed unbelievable.
Such a young boy( think – he has just passed BCA ), such an innocent face . How could I make such mistakes in spotting people??
GOD and the poor innocent boy for whom I felt such sympathy, misery just yesterday became an object of anguish and disgust today. I have to say my impulse was right at that moment . :)
