Describe the other girls and women in the brothel. How do they accept or rail against their lives there?what does Lakshmi learn from them? In the end, what happens to them?

Shahanna is described as kind and gentle. She takes great care to protect herself from pregnancy and disease, and she helps guide Lakshmi. Shahanna accepts her circumstances, but like Lakshmi, she wishes to escape. In the end, she disappears.