We had moved into Gurgaon. My wife, Namrata, was in a job that involved a lot of travel and our new child required care and attention. My job allowed remote work, and that was how, 6 months after our son was born, we shifted to Gurgaon to be close to my Namrata’s parents.
My wife set up our house including finding Sarla, a Bangladeshi maid who was a live-in maid for the house opposite us. We were lucky since our society was upscale and only 2 houses on each floor, and we needed someone who was close and available always and didn’t have time to search.
Our neighbors, the Khanna’s, were an elderly couple, maybe in their late 40s. The husband was a typical pot-bellied, bald, banker type, while the wife seemed to be a traditional simple...