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No to social apartheid
by Guest Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:46 pm
It is urban India's most unresolved relationship. A relationship that goes to the heart of the inequality that every affluent Indian unthinkingly accepts, a relationship on which even the values of the Constitution founder. The 'servant' exists in a realm which we dare not analyse too deeply for
fear that the horrifying social tension that the institution embodies may threaten the comforts of cheap domestic labour.
The fact that the 'servant'-employer relationship increasingly verges on mutual distrust, the fact that barely disguised class hostility now marks this uncertain living arrangement, the fact that brutal violence in proliferating cases embody yet another aspect of India's million mutinies, these are issues we, the urban help employing classes, choose not to think about. The sight of a monied family feasting at a restaurant, with a quiet dusky teenager sitting a little apart with her face turned away from them, is something we are immune to, perhaps even a little envious of, that the family seems to have such docile dedicated staff.
The case of an allegedly 13-year-old maid apparently locked in an apartment in Delhi's Dwarka locality by a doctor couple, who went on a holiday, is yet another manifestation of the crisis in the relationship between 'servant' and employer.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/sagarikaghose/No-to-social-apartheid/Article1-838612.aspx
fear that the horrifying social tension that the institution embodies may threaten the comforts of cheap domestic labour.
The fact that the 'servant'-employer relationship increasingly verges on mutual distrust, the fact that barely disguised class hostility now marks this uncertain living arrangement, the fact that brutal violence in proliferating cases embody yet another aspect of India's million mutinies, these are issues we, the urban help employing classes, choose not to think about. The sight of a monied family feasting at a restaurant, with a quiet dusky teenager sitting a little apart with her face turned away from them, is something we are immune to, perhaps even a little envious of, that the family seems to have such docile dedicated staff.
The case of an allegedly 13-year-old maid apparently locked in an apartment in Delhi's Dwarka locality by a doctor couple, who went on a holiday, is yet another manifestation of the crisis in the relationship between 'servant' and employer.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/sagarikaghose/No-to-social-apartheid/Article1-838612.aspx
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