‘I won’t do toilets’: the unvarnished reality of life as a maid in India

Domestic service can extract a family from extreme poverty – but it can also be a path to near-enslavement. Tripti Lahiri investigates the uneasy, and sometimes abusive, relationship between India’s modern-day ‘madams’ and maids   A woman returns home after a day’s work as a domestic help in New Delhi. […]