'The house her employers lived in was three stories high. But all they could spare her was a corridor so snug even turning was impossible.
They owned five ‘hi-fi’ cars. But she was never paid a salary.
And one of the two daughters of the house was a flight attendant with film star beauty. Such a pity then, Nagma muses, that her “heart was full of filth.”'
Read the fifth installment of my series, The Other India, on the NYT's India Ink site here.
Photo: Nagma Ali, 19. Copyright: Sonia Faleiro, 2011
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