![]() ![]() Shamli is an industrial wasteland with mounds of unclaimed garbage framing its horizon. This much of her story is like hundreds, probably thousands, of workers in Shamli district in western Uttar Pradesh. ![]() Her factory sent her rations for a few weeks and said, sorry, they couldn’t pay her salary for now. It was about to become Rs 10,000 when the lockdown happened. It’s opposite a spoon-making factory where she and one sister have jobs as assembly-line workers. In her life, those details are of little consequence.Īrti lives in a tiny two room tenement with her two young sisters. She does not know how old she is, for instance, or the name of the factory she works in. Not being able to keep up with such sundry details is part of the mix and has to do as much with her tough background as her individual quirks. ![]()
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