Life did not treat her fair, working day and night as a maid and a family to take care
Even if she was sick, she had to work to earn her wages so that her children could eat
Water tap running dry, no issues, to carry water from the well Bai* is there
photo by Scott Umstattd via Unsplash
* Bai (or didi etc.) – a generic name by which maids are called in many Indian households
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That is so like the ‘Biddy’ that all Irish maids were called in English households.
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I am sure the Brits are not the missing link between the Irish and the Indians.
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Well, since they were the colonizers in both cases…
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