The Shift That Does Not Come: Inside the Invisible Labour of Family Caregiving in Rural India 

India’s care economy has two halves. One is visible, growing, and valued at billions of dollars. The other is invisible, older than any market, and worth nothing on paper. The second half is carried almost entirely by women in households, caring for the chronically ill, unpaid and unrelieved. This is a piece about the second half.  The cancer ward in Gwalior had a tin roof and a tree outside. Safeena Bano does not remember what tree it was. But she does remember sitting under it for a long time. Her husband was inside, receiving chemotherapy. The ward did not allow children. Her older son, who was 5 years old, sat outside on the ground and watched over his younger brother,