What is this love/hate relationship that middle class India has with domestic workers? When the lockdown was announced, people like us took to the social media to bemoan the fact that part-time helps could no longer ease their domestic load.
However, informal surveys indicate that as many as 85 per cent of these workers — domestic helps, guards, drivers and attendants — found themselves unceremoniously thrown out of jobs or forced to accept pay cuts during the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown. Estimates suggest that over a million people are employed as domestic helps across ...
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