Lesser Lives: Stories of Domestic Servants in India

‘Exemplary’ Ravish Kumar

'A wonderful selection’ Rana Safvi

For generations, domestic servants in India have been subjected to neglect, apathy and cruelty. Though they are known nowadays as the domestic ‘help’, ‘aid’ or ‘staff’, often merely to meet the requirements of political correctness, their condition remains unchanged for the most part as the country’s privileged classes have failed to truly address the...