MAID IN INDIA
Lahiri, Tripti We eat first, they later, often out of food portioned out for them, we live in the front, they in the back, we sit on chairs and they on the floor, we drink from glasses and ceramic plates and they from ones made of steel set aside for them, we call them by their names, and they address us by titles: sir/ma'am, sahib/memsahib... Every year, thousands of poor, illiterate, unskilled women flock to Delhi from villages across the country to work a...