it was thursday evening saumasri ganguly known to the world as dimpy mahajan was pleading on the phone the familiar and assuring voice of her mother was all she needed to break down i am all alone here ma even baba father is not supporting me by thursday evening it was obvious a battered bruised dimpy was fighting a lonely battle a family of extremely modest means the gangulys had played their parts during her closely followed reality tv marriage they had taken a leap of faith once but seemed to fight shy of doing it againthey wanted her to go back to rahul mahajan the man they believed truly madly deeply loved her a man who could afford her the life and the luxuries they had always wished for their daughter or else why would rahul send her business class tickets to return to mumbai every time she came here for her exams questioned dimpys concerned uncle who lives in the same house as her family in north kolkatameanwhile the 21yearold was visibly in pain the bruises on her thighs hands and forehead were raw throbbing she feared for her life her fathers life who was at that very moment sitting with the man who had been beating her upwhen mirror called up mahajan on thursday night he said i just had dinner with dimpys father what he did not tell us was retired incometax lawyer saibal ganguly his fatherinlaw who had flown down from kolkata in response to his daughters distress call was there as a peacemaker he was trying to get an idea of what could have gone so horribly wrong between the charmer of a soninlaw and their beloved daughter rahul mahajan flush from the success of his stint in bigg boss which saw him garner unprecedented public sympathy participated in a reality show to choose his wife 21yearold model and small time bengali actress dimpy wideeyed and in mumbai to try her luck in the glamour world seemed to be a perfect choice rahul and dimpy were bonafide reality tv stars and seemed determined to milk it both made a slew of appearances on various tv shows always professing undying love for each other but there was trouble in paradise fights over petty issues would blow out of proportion and turn physical he once hit me with a hanger leaving a huge scar on my back says dimpy the violence she says escalated with her insistence on appearing for her second year exams a fact corroborated by her uncle tapan ganguly he would summon her back every time she came to kolkata for her exams he said there was no need to study and for some rs 5000job but dimpy wanted to complete her studies said her uncle june was a particularly bad month for dimpy twice she got her motherinlaw rekha mahajan involved in the fracas i went back to kolkata quite often because of the fights each time rahul would cajole me to