A small and ugly riot broke out in the capital’s satellite city of Noida this week. A 26-year-old Muslim maid went missing from an apartment in a prosperous housing society. When she did not return home to the nearby slum at night, a large crowd gathered and began stoning the building; its residents were expectedly terrified. The dispute turned to be a nasty but not uncommon maalik-naukar (master-servant) row. The maid’s employers said she had stolen money and had footage to prove it; she accused them of unpaid wages and ill-treatment. Meanwhile, conditions in the servants’ settlement, as in many
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