The younger other is a feisty Bengali Muslim who dedicated 20 years to that family. Fate engineered to even have seasons of overlap between them working under the same roof.

Nataline brought up my mother-in-law’s children and just passed away in Vasco. Missed by us all but especially my husband and his sister, who were as much her kids as were they their mother’s. Laila looked after my children and has voluntarily retired, to bring up her grandchildren in an ancestral village a bit beyond Kolkata.