Prabha Chandran
A complex and troubling account of those who serve and those they serve
Still new to the West, Atreyee Majumder wonders what it is that so affects her when a maid bends under her chair at home in India to scrub out a speck of dust, while a janitor in uniform evokes no feeling at all
Or the tyranny of maids through the eyes and experience of a Frenchman settled in the city
A domestic help in Delhi, 35-year-old Halder stands a class apart from most Indian bestselling writers