In a slum in eastern Delhi where migrants from north - east India cluster, pupils split their days between lessons in small private schools in abandoned warehouses that charge 80 - 150 rupees ($ 1.25 - 2.35) a month, and a free government school
around the corner, which supplies cooked
midday meals and a few books, but little teaching.
Zilpah told me that when she was a few months away from her first blood and the task fell to her of taking my grandfather his
midday meal, he reached up and put his thumb and forefinger
around her nipple, squeezing it as though she were a she - goat.