It was around 3 a.m., everyone was sleeping,” Ainul recalls.
Ainul fills it every evening between 7-8 p.m.- in buckets, dabbas, bottles.
Mohammed now tries to stop his father when he wants to hit Ainul.
She would send me some money, she tried to help… my Ammi,” Ainul says, softly.
Although he was dissolute and liked to gamble, Ainul says, he was a buffer for her.
Since then, Ainul has done a series of jobs-
in the‘wadi line' or catering work where contractors take labourers to wedding sites to clean dishes, as a nurse in a home in suburban Jogeshwari.