Free The Incredible Banker by Ravi Subramanian Page A

should somehow get Richard, Anil and Ganesh to hate him as well. Kuch kar yaar... we r so close to getting him bumped off!!!'
    What worried Anil was that all the four names mentioned in the SMS – Savitha, Gopal, Richard and Ganesh – reported to Karan. So the shitface in the SMS was Karan. Even an idiot could figure that out. Karan was the only common factor that linked all the names in the SMS. What shocked him more was the source of the SMS.
    The sender was Deepak Sarup. And it was sent at 4. 45 a. m. in the morning. He had missed the message since he was occupied with Dhruv the entire day and had not been able to check his phone.
    Why did Deepak send the SMS to him? Was it a mistake? Was it sent to him intentionally? Was there something else behind this? Was there a sinister plan to derail Karan's team? He didn't know.
    He picked up his phone and read the message several times. He was shocked. The vicious tone of the SMS was too appalling for his comfort. And, more importantly why was it sent to him? It had to be a mistake. Should he send it to Karan? Should he call back Deepak and ask? He didn't know what to do.
    And then as he read it for the umpteenth time he figured it out. Deepak had wanted to send the SMS to Amit Sharma, the credit head for mortgages. And instead of typing AMI' on his mobile, he typed 'ANI and carelessly clicked 'send' on the first name that showed up from his mobile's phone book.
    It dawned on Anil that both Deepak and the mortgages credit head were hand in glove. They were conspiring to get rid of Karan, his boss, who was a nice man and a rigorous sales manager.
    He kept the phone on the side and decided to think about it the next day.

 
     
     
    25 August 2007

GB2 Headquarters, Mumbai
     
     
    A NIL reached office the next day wondering what he should do about the SMS he received on Ganesh Chaturthi. He was a bit confused, not knowing if it was sent to him by mistake, intentionally or if someone was playing a prank. Even if it was a prank, he didn't know if was directed at him or Karan. Not only confused, he was also a bit nervous. Was this a racket he was about to expose?
    He was in early that day. Savitha, too, had reached by then. Their seats were quite close by. However, he did not go to her directly. After logging into his laptop, he pinged her, on the intra office chat messenger.
    'Hi. '
    The message popped up on Savitha's screen. She turned and looked behind. She knew where Anil would normally sit. His eyes were glued to his screen. Wondering why he would ping her when she was sitting right in front of him, she began the chat. 'Hi?'
    'What are you doing?'
    'Responding to some mails. Some pricing requests. Why?'
    'See me in the conference room in the next two minutes. Want to show you something. ' She saw Anil get up and walk towards the conference room.
    Savitha was in the conference room in the next two minutes where Anil was waiting for her.
    'Did you get any SMS from Deepak yesterday?' He seemed to be in a hurry.
    'Deepak? Why?' Savitha was surprised. Had someone seen them together? Her guilty mind walked a different track.
    'Because I got this SMS from Deepak yesterday. Did you get this, too?' he asked her.
    Savitha took the phone from his hands and read through the message. She couldn't understand what was written. Why would Deepak send such a stupid message to Anil? She couldn't understand. 'No, Anil. I didn't get this message. But why would Deepak send this message to you? I am sure there is some kind of misunderstanding here. Why don't you check with Deepak?'
    'No, I will talk to Karan first. Let him deal with it the way he thinks appropriate. '
    "That might be the right thing to do. ' And Savitha walked away from the conference room. The fact that she disliked Karan was known to everyone, including Karan himself. If anything, the sender of the message had got his facts right.
    That evening Bhisham called Deepak.
    'Deepak, Vikram Solanki just spoke with me. ' Vikram was GB2's