In My New Room
- There is a bedroom with four beds separated by sheets hanging from the ceiling, and Shahanna explains that when Lakshmi has a customer, she uses the sheets to shield her from view.
- Six girls share the room: Anita, whose face is disfigured; Pushpa, who coughs; Pushpa's two children, one a toddler, one about eight years old; Lakshmi; and Shahanna.
- Shahanna explains that Anita is from the same place as Lakshmi and Shahanna: Nepal.
- Pushpa, though, came to work for Mumtaz after her husband died.