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Q&A: Baby Halder

nguin) first came out, its author, domestic worker Baby Halder, was unprepared for the kind of attention and acclaim that her biography drew. Baby Halder had lived a difficult life in rural Murshidabad. Her father was often missing; her mother walked out on the family when Baby was seven. Married when she was just 12 to an abusive husband, she had the first of her three children at the age of 13. She escaped to Delhi when she was older and worked in several households as a domestic worker before she found employment with the professor she reveres and calls