"No," Meera agreed. "It's not."
The second person was a journalist she had found through her sister — a technology reporter who had covered the BPO industry for seven years, who received what Meera told her with the professional skepticism of someone whose job required not believing things until they were demonstrated, and with the professional interest of someone who recognised a story even when — perhaps especially when — it was something she did not have a framework for.
The journalist investigated. It took two months. She confirmed Divya's disappearance — or rather, she confirmed that Divya could not be located, that HR's claim that she was "on personal leave" had no supporting documentation, that Divya's family in Hyderabad had not heard from her in three months and had filed a missing person report that had received no useful police response. She confirmed Suresh's disappearance by the same method. She confirmed three others from the prior twelve months whose names she found in the employee records via sources inside the company.
