Vishal Sharma lives in Pune. His fiancée, Kiran Gill, is in Malaysia. Vishal is all set to leave for the country in order to convince her parents about their getting married in India, by December.
Thing is, they have been married before. Online. Sitting at their computers in two different countries, the two imagined a havan and seven pheras. They have never even met in person, until now! Convincing their parents has not been easy. Kiran's dad doesn't want her to live in India. Luckily, both happen to be Punjabis, making it easy to cross barriers of religion and caste.
The couple met through a random MIRC chat. Kiran, who had made a lot of friends online and had even met absolute strangers in person, says she was smitten because Vishal was nice and humble. "But it was strange to be proposed to online. I would rather have done that in person. Vishal had neither seen my photographs nor heard my voice before he proposed and I accepted."
That, however, was not the only drawback of courting online. Being in two different countries with different time zones was another factor. Then there were issues of security. Kiran recalls chatting with a stranger using the same nickname Vishal had on MIRC. After that, they had to take extra precautions, restricting their meetings to instant messengers alone.
The couple believe that people who fall in love online try harder to keep their relationship going. "We still send each other eight to ten mails daily, and I have printouts of our chats to show our children…"
Happily ever after? We hope so.
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