"The Ladies has been kept clean all night by a woman attendant hurling buckets of water over the lavatories and whoever is using them at the time. She hands me some paper, studies me cleaning my teeth and folds my last rupee in the tip of her sari. I am putting on my lipstick when screams in the Transit Hall indicate Air India Flight 101 is finally leaving for London…"

Christine Osborne from Home on a Wing and a Wave, an account of
a journey home from Goa published in Montage Magazine, 1999.