Download or read book Maid in India written by Tripti Lahiri and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2017 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 as domestic help. This is how Fullin from Athgama in rural Jharkhand, Lovely from a tiny settlement in Malda, Golbanu bibi from Doparia, Mae from Kokrajhar and a Santhali girl from Annabiri, in the heart of Maoist country-find themselves in the nation's most powerful city, working for its richest people. This is how tycoons and refugees, politicians and orphans-India's one per cent and her 99 per cent-rub shoulders every day, under the same roof. In the not so distant past, everyone's place- whether maid, ayah or cook, sahib or memsahib- was well understood. There were clear rules for negotiating (and maintaining) the vast chasm between the two sides. Today, it's a little different. There are housekeepers who are part of the middle class who ensure their children join white-collar India. There are teenage girls brought to the city by 'aunts' and 'uncles' to serve as '24-hour' help, who find themselves virtually, and sometimes literally, caged. There are employers who wrestle with the guilt of spending more on an Italian meal in a fancy hotel than on those who clean their homes- and other employers who insist 'these people' are all thieves. With in-depth reporting in the villages from where women make their way to upper-class homes in Delhi and Gurgaon, courtrooms where the worst allegations of abuse get an airing, and homes up and down the class ladder, Maid in India is an illuminating and sobering account of the complex and troubling relations between the help and those they serve.
Download or read book The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook written by Flora Annie Steel and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'an Indian household can no more be governed peacefully, without dignity and prestige, than an Indian Empire' InThe Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (1888) Flora Annie Steel and her co-author Grace Gardiner provide practical, and often highly opinionated, advice to young memsahibs in India. They explain how to 'make a hold' over servants, how to establish and stock a storeroom, how to plan a menu, manage young children, treat bites from 'mad, or even doubtful dogs', and teach an Indian cook how to make fish quenelles. The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook promised its reader a comprehensive guide to domesticitiy in India, even if she found herself living in camps or in the jungle, on the hills or in the plains, whether she was the wife of an influential Indian Civil Servant or a missionary. This new edition, complete with its stimulating introduction and substantial notes, makes available a classic domestic work that in detailing the memsahib's role in the household sheds light on the entire imperial experience. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Download or read book Maid less in india written by Ritu Gupta and published by Onlinegatha. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rashi, a typical young middle class professional woman in India, is constantly and continuously challenged around getting a full time maid, managing and maintaining her over a period of time. The desolation of departing maid, the horror of promiscuous maid, the anger of stealing maid, the nostalgia of the earlier maid…….this book explores various challenges faced and play of emotions, and strategies that follow the with maid and maid(less) status of Rashi!
Download or read book Recasting India written by Hindol Sengupta and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The senior editor for Fortune India explains how the world's largest democracy is at risk of falling apart and what's holding it together
Download or read book Lesser Lives Stories of Domestic Servants in India written by Nitin Sinha and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘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 most pervasive inequalities in their households. In Lesser Lives, Nitin Sinha and Prabhat Kumar collect short fiction from the Hindi heartland that turns the gaze onto these continuing disparities. The eleven stories in the book, including Premchand’s ‘Maidservant’, Mahadevi Varma’s ‘Rama’, Saadat Hasan Manto’s ‘Blouse’, Amarkant’s ‘Bahadur’ and Shekhar Joshi’s ‘Dajyu’, offer both timeless classics and little-known literary gems, some of which have never been published in translation before.
Download or read book Maidless in Mumbai written by Payal Kapadia and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am on top of things. I have a seriously stuck baby inside me, and a queue of people between my legs. But I am on top of things. Career-driven reporter Anu Narain has a plan for everything till motherhood comes along. The baby poops/cries/pisses/ feeds round the clock. Anu loses her mind/ the plot/ the maid. And cabin fever strikes when her mother-in-law and her mother come over to help ... How does Anu become a working mom when her husband is happy playing the shirking dad? And when her house is a railway station where every maid is a passing train? Will Anu use wile and guile to make the maids stay and The Moms leave? Or will she succumb to that strange Indian malaise called maidomania? Hysterically funny, unapologetically honest, and charming all the way, this is the diary of a maidless Mumbai mom who dreams of only one thing-the perfect maid to live happily forever with.
Download or read book The Palace Maid written by Col Jagadish Kakati and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story revolves around Prince Sundar of the Ahom dynasty in Assam in North-East India during the medieval period. Sundar, the crown prince, is seriously searching for the complete liberation of his soul and thereby shuns the company of women. The Queen Mother forces him to get married against his will to Princess Kanchanmoti, who is in love with Ananga, Sundar’s friend. Expectedly, the marriage ends in disaster. Enter Shewali, an innocent maidservant. Shewali is devoted to the service of the prince, and she loves to serve. She becomes a victim of jealousy and deceit of the palace staff. The Queen Mother holds Shewali responsible for Sundar’s actions and wreaks vengeance. One day, Sundar calls for Shewali, and she fails to turn up. Where is Shewali? Now the story moves to the serene, natural surroundings of the Naga Hills where Ananga, in exile, is dwelling in a cave. Sundar arrives there in disguise with a group of Chaodangs. What is his intention? Written in simple language, the story highlights the pure love of a simple maidservant who becomes a victim of palace intrigues. How her ultimate sacrifice leaves a deep impression on the crown prince’s heart is bound to keep the readers engrossed. “The Palace Maid is an engrossing book. The story is told in an uncomplicated manner. It has been translated quite smoothly from the Assamese novel Karengor Ligiri. Brig Ranjit Borthakur (Retd.), eminent writer, TV commentator and former Chairman of Assam Public Service Commission
Download or read book The Unusual Maid written by Aparna Ramamurthy and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the well qualified Alisha decides to take a break from her well-paying job to work as a maid in the powerful Scindia household, all she has in mind is a chance to rescue her student Sita from a deep abyss. In her new role, she encounters the majestic, extremely handsome and talented Yash Scindia, the sole heir to the entire Scindia empire and the most eligible bachelor in the country. Little does she know that her vow to help someone selflessly would set her on a path that would change her life forever!
Download or read book My Sex Starving Wife Preeti written by J. K. Gladstone and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Eight in "My Indian Wife Series." Most of us normal people will have serious issues if our spouses slept with other people. For many, such things are alluring but when they actually try it, one or the other can't handle it and it takes a long time to recover. The primary reason people stay together is because they love and want each other, not others. When you introduce another, this no longer holds true and the fall out is inevitable. My sex starving wife Preeti is the story of a married couple Jatin and Preeti. Jatin is sending conflicting signals to his young wife Preeti. Unknowingly pushing her closer to that threshold of their marriage wherein for her own pleasure she is tempted cross the line. It seems circumstances will push her across the line with or preferably without Jatin's approval or knowledge. Is Preeti going to like it so much that she go for another taste and becomes enthralled by the experience since Jatin can't give her that kind of pleasure. The wild ride of voyeuristic indulgence by a confused and perverted Jatin and his beautiful wife Preeti who is equally confused by these crazy games he insists on playing despite knowing that he really can't and wouldn't be able to handle the consequences if temptation and a strong, dominant man like Akshay takes control of her. Akshay is a big guy, with huge libido, Greek God, so obviously a lot of women will be interested in him. But women don't just want muscles and after a time they move on, except for his wife Shushmita who seemed to have clicked with him. How many other women has he had during his marriage? So, Akshay looks for glamour pussies while she cares for her inability to satisfy her husband hunger. As they say the grass is always greener on the other side... and Jatin is forcing his wife Preeti to go and taste it. With a guy like Akshay, well-built and good looking, all her motherliness in helping him will easily lead to his cock. Jatin's fantasies end up frustrating her and Akshay will provide what she needs. Then bye bye dear hubby. You can only enjoy so much in wifey voyeurism and when you need a real fuck, she's not going to be interested because he wasn't man enough to keep her properly fucked up... only interested in getting other guys to heat her up. Jatin has ended up making her lust after other men and in sexual pleasure there is no turning back. He only wanted to see her fucked by other men (including Akshay of course since he became super-heated when Preeti told him the episode), not end up being a wife substitute to Akshay. And the humiliation and mockery will probably start. Advise: Intended purely for mature readers only, a lot of graphical sex acts and strong language is used. This Erotic Novel contain Explicit Sexuality, and Adult Content that may be deemed by some to be offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, so please read at your own discretion.
Download or read book Servants Of India written by R K Laxman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2002-04-04 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Servants of India, R.K. Laxman profiles ten hilariously idiosyncratic people, who are among the countless men and women who run the lives of the middle class in India. The tales are put together by Ganesh, a freelance journalist trying to write a feature article on servants he has known. As his chronicle progresses, what emerges is a richly embellished narrative starring unforgettable characters. There is Swami, the cook, who finds his true vocation as a godman; Kumar, who deserts his household duties to pursue his tinsel-town dreams; Anthony, the driver, who makes money on the side by giving lifts to strangers; the maid Shanti, whose lift is thrown into turmoil by the neighbour's servant who is besotted with her; and Ramaswami, a trusted retainer who reappears mysteriously, much to the consternation of his employer, long after he has been presumed drowned. Marked by Laxman's trademark wit, and including pencil sketches drawn especially for this edition, Servants of India is a delightful read.
Download or read book Tombstone written by M Missy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part one covers the early days of sissy maid missys travels to becoming a sissy maid to a lovely Governess, Sofia, and missys own sister, Christy. My story begins on a Farm in Pennsylvania where missy grew up as Mitchell. Mitchells early behavior and punishments are covered; while Mitchell experienced plenty of attention from his fathers strap, a big long thick strap. Highlighted other events of Mitchells growing years also include a couple of very humiliating punishments as well as the sadness of a DEATH TOO SOON. That DEATH TOO SOON; set Mitchells life in motion to become a sharpshooter and gun slinger like no other the West had ever seen before, or after. The story continues with Mitchell and his family taking a train to the famous Dodge City, where Mitchell actually met Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Bat Masterson. That was the highlight of Mitchells life at that point in time. However, it would not be the last time they met. Then it was onto the wagon train; to Tombstone Arizona. While in the wagon train, Mitchells behavior became uncontrollable and he kept getting himself punished. While at the same time; Mitchells gun handling ability saves the lives of others and make Mitchell the most unlikely hero. Finally, as Mitchells parents tire of his poor behavior, they resort to hiring an English Governess to teach Mitchell how to behave and to obey. The Governess takes Mitchell down the path to obedience the old fashion English way; in the form of petticoat punishment and the cane. The Governess changes Mitchell into missy! My story continues as the family settles in Tombstone where Mitchell, since converted to missy, becomes THE FIRST SISSY MAID of the West in Tombstone, Arizona.
Download or read book A Life Less Ordinary written by Baby Halder and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is The Story Of Baby Halder, A Young Woman Working As A Domestic Help In A Home In Delhi. Hurriedly Married Off At The Age Of Twelve, A Mother By The Time She Was Fourteen, Baby Writes Movingly And Evocatively Of Her Life As A Young Girl, And Later As A Young Woman. The Long Absences Of Her Father, The Hardships Faced By Her Mother, And Her Decision To Walk Out Of Her Marriage, Leaving Baby And Her Sister To Manage The Household, Were The Realities That Shaped Baby S Early Life. When Marriage Came, Baby, Still A Child, Yearned To Play And Study, But Was Burdened With The Responsibility Of Being Wife And Mother While Facing Considerable Violence From Her Husband. Escape Finally Came Many Years Later, By Which Time The Still Young Baby Was A Mother Of Three, And She Fled To The City In The Hope Of Finding A Job. Working In Delhi As A Domestic Help, Baby Was Lucky Enough To Come Across An Employer Who Encouraged Her To Read Which She Did Voraciously And Then To Write. The Story Of Baby S Life Is A Lesson In Courage And Survival. Since It Was First Published In Hindi, This Book Has Become A Best-Seller, Receiving Accolades From Some Of The Best-Known Writers And Critics In India And Elsewhere. It Has Also Been Translated Into Other Indian Languages.
Download or read book The Maid s Daughter written by Mary Romero and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a very young age, Olivia left her family and traditions in Mexico to live with her mother, Carmen, in one of Los Angeles's most exclusive and nearly all-white gated communities. Based on over twenty years of research, Romero brings Olivia's remarkable story to life. We watch as she struggles through adolescence, declares her independence and eventually goes off to college and becomes a successful professional. Much of her story is told in Olivia's voice and we hear of both her triumphs and her setbacks. Romero explores this story about belonging, identity, and resistance, illustrating Olivia's challenge to establish her sense of identity, and the patterns of inclusion and exclusion in her life. Romero points to the hidden costs of paid domestic labor that are transferred to the families of private household workers and nannies, and shows how everyday routines are important in maintaining and assuring that various forms of privilege are passed on from one generation to another. She shows how mythologies of meritocracy, the land of opportunity, and the American dream remain firmly in place while simultaneously erasing injustices and the struggles of the working poor. From publisher description.
Download or read book A Free Man A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi written by Aman Sethi and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A deeply moving, funny, and brilliantly written account from one of India’s most original new voices." —Katherine Boo Like Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun and Alexander Masters’s Stuart, this is a tour de force of narrative reportage. Mohammed Ashraf studied biology, became a butcher, a tailor, and an electrician’s apprentice; now he is a homeless day laborer in the heart of old Delhi. How did he end up this way? In an astonishing debut, Aman Sethi brings him and his indelible group of friends to life through their adventures and misfortunes in the Old Delhi Railway Station, the harrowing wards of a tuberculosis hospital, an illegal bar made of cardboard and plywood, and into Beggars Court and back onto the streets. In a time of global economic strain, this is an unforgettable evocation of persistence in the face of poverty in one of the world’s largest cities. Sethi recounts Ashraf’s surprising life story with wit, candor, and verve, and A Free Man becomes a moving story of the many ways a man can be free.
Download or read book The Hotel Neversink written by Adam O'Fallon Price and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2020 Edgar Award Winner! "A gripping, atmospheric, heart-breaking, almost-ghost story. Not since Stephen King's Overlook has a hotel hiding a secret been brought to such vivid life." —Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State Thirty-one years after workers first broke ground, the magnificent Hotel Neversink in the Catskills finally opens to the public. Then a young boy disappears. This mysterious vanishing—and the ones that follow—will brand the lives of three generations. At the root of it all is Asher Sikorsky, the ambitious and ruthless patriarch whose purchase of the hotel in 1931 set a haunting legacy into motion. His daughter Jeanie sees the Hotel Neversink into its most lucrative era, but also its darkest. Decades later, Asher's grandchildren grapple with the family’s heritage in their own ways: Len fights to keep the failing, dilapidated hotel alive, and Alice sets out to finally uncover the murderer’s identity. Told by an unforgettable chorus of Sikorsky family members—a matriarch, a hotel maid, a traveling comedian, the hotel detective, and many others—The Hotel Neversink is the gripping portrait of a Jewish family in the Catskills over the course of a century. With an unerring eye and with prose both comic and tragic, Adam O’Fallon-Price details one man’s struggle for greatness, no matter the cost, and a long-held family secret that threatens to undo it all.
Download or read book Maid written by Stephanie Land and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide (Barack Obama)," this New York Times bestselling memoir is the inspiration for the Netflix limited series, hailed by Rolling Stone as "a great one." At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet. Maid is an emotionally raw, masterful account of Stephanie's years spent in service to upper middle class America as a "nameless ghost" who quietly shared in her clients' triumphs, tragedies, and deepest secrets. Driven to carve out a better life for her family, she cleaned by day and took online classes by night, writing relentlessly as she worked toward earning a college degree. She wrote of the true stories that weren't being told: of living on food stamps and WIC coupons, of government programs that barely provided housing, of aloof government employees who shamed her for receiving what little assistance she did. Above all else, she wrote about pursuing the myth of the American Dream from the poverty line, all the while slashing through deep-rooted stigmas of the working poor. Maid is Stephanie's story, but it's not hers alone. It is an inspiring testament to the courage, determination, and ultimate strength of the human spirit. "A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide, a description of the tightrope many families walk just to get by, and a reminder of the dignity of all work." -PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, Obama's Summer Reading List
Download or read book Maid of Murder written by Amanda Flower and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2010 Agatha Award Nominee for Best First Novel In MAID OF MURDER, India Hayes, a college librarian and reluctant bridesmaid, is thrown into the role of amateur sleuth as she hunts down the person who murdered her childhood friend and framed her brother for the crime. When bride-to-be Olivia turns up dead in the Martin College fountain and the evidence points to India's brother Mark, India must unmask the real culprit while juggling a furious Mother of the Bride, an annoying Maid of Honor, a set of hippie-generation parents, a police detective who is showing a marked liking for her, and a provost itching to fire someone, anyone-maybe even a smart-mouthed librarian.
