Life is so boringly quiet and orderly at home now! We speak to the kids everyday. One thing I am glad is that they are both eating well and their lives have a proper routine now. With our irregular hours it had been disorganized for them too. Both places said the kids have put on some weight.
V called former maid’s d-i-l yesterday to ask about the money she owes us. The dil said the woman has a habit of doing this at every place she works. There was no wedding to attend, that was just a ruse for leaving. She was not happy with the freebies we gave, instead she has complained that she had to buy on her own some gifts for her grandkids! some cheek she has!
I am glad she has left. Have a feeling she was ill-treating the kids. It kept me awake at night. I am afraid to hire another maid. V is now checking with agencies that send maids for household work/patient care/babysitting.
Our last day of work on the next issue of the magazine. Would have liked to go home this week but the trains are full. There is a holiday on Tuesday, being Independence day. It is a paid holiday for us, so we are all looking forward to come to work and claim double wages.
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Maids can be a real problem there it seems. Do many women there put off careers to look after their children themselves?
From the problems yous have had it seems getting a decent maid must be increasingly difficult.
Is India going through a class 'revolution' the way Europe did after the wars when the domestic service classes became upwardly mobile? The choices must be increasingly stark for the middle classes, needing two
incomes to secure housing and a half decent lifestyle, yet being increasingly dispersed from extended family support and subject to disappearing reliable domestic staff.
Laurence
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