MAID IN INDIA
Stories of Opportunity and Inequality Inside Our Homes
Tripti Lahiri
Aleph
314 pages; Rs 599
In his 2008 Booker-winning first novel, The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga charts the story of Balram Halwai, who rises from the darkness of his village in the hinterland to grand, if bloody, success as a self-made entrepreneur in the metropolis. The story resonated not just because it was emblematic of the glitz of the new India but also because it denoted how that new India was sometimes built upon the dreams of its lesser mortals.
In Maid In India, Tripti Lahiri offers evocative
