Nilu

Nilu is one of about 200,000 foreign women in Lebanon working as a maid.

Migrant Workers Face Abuses Inside Lebanese Homes 2010

Nilu spent six months sleeping on the floor of her Lebanese employer's kitchen.

Migrant Workers Face Abuses Inside Lebanese Homes 2010

Aid workers found this Sri Lankan woman, who asked to be called Nilu, in a hospital with wrists crushed by a hammer, welts all over her body, and a broken back.

Migrant Workers Face Abuses Inside Lebanese Homes 2010

It took Nilu several months to be able to walk again after she escaped her employers 'house, and now she is hoping to return to Sri Lanka.

Migrant Workers Face Abuses Inside Lebanese Homes 2010

The journeys of the characters in Buddha's Orphans -- Raja, Kaki, Nilu, Ganga Da, Mohini, Shiva, Ranjana -- intersect and intertwine in ways that chip away at the notion that we are self-enclosed entities merely chasing after our own narrow interests.

Samrat Upadhyay: Buddha's Orphans: We're All Connected in our Suffering Samrat Upadhyay 2010

Another character, Nilu, turned out to be even more of a presence than Raja: it's her resolve, her faith in Raja, and her concern and compassion for the downtrodden that sweeten the novel.

Samrat Upadhyay: Buddha's Orphans: We're All Connected in our Suffering Samrat Upadhyay 2010

The reader discovers that it's not only Raja who is an orphan, but also Kaki, who dies without getting a glimpse of the boy she raised; Nilu, whose yearning for her own mother's love is no less heartbreaking; and Ganga Da, whose desire to keep his mentally ill wife pacified leads him to a cruel act that haunts him forever.

Samrat Upadhyay: Buddha's Orphans: We're All Connected in our Suffering Samrat Upadhyay 2010

As for the role of Nilu, the sources said she was phua aunt of Raju and was accompanying them to make it look like a family trip.

Archive 2006-12-01 Abhay N 2006

As for the role of Nilu, the sources said she was phua aunt of Raju and was accompanying them to make it look like a family trip.

'Maoists buy cartridges for Rs 110 each' Abhay N 2006

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