At 6 am everyday, 17-year-old Nisha (not her
real name) reports to work for the family that
has employed her as its domestic help for the
last four years. In the high-rise building in
South Colaba in Mumbai where an apartment
rents for about a lakh a month, she earns Rs.
2000. She cleans their bathrooms, washes their
clothes, and looks after a five-year-old child.
She sleeps in a small room attached to her
employers' home. But when she needs to go
downstairs from the 13th floor where they
live, she heads not to the elevator in the front,
but to a separate lift at the back of the
building.
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