Indra Sen's Correspondence with The Mother

1 May 1946

Yesterday D and I agreed that the work dockets prepared by him would come to me along with the manuscripts and I would give them to the compositors. Today he asked for a docket which was with me, saying that it was urgent and he himself would give it to the composing section. That appeared preposterous to me. I said that all he had to do was to make a note on the docket, "Wanted by such-and-such a date" and I would do the rest. He did not agree and said that in the future, as a rule, he will issue the dockets and manuscripts directly to the composing section. Kindly clarify who is to do that work.

It is almost impossible for me to answer your question, because these small administrative arrangements escape from my consciousness unless I am doing the work or part of it myself and in this case the things get no more arranged according to principles or fixed rules, but at each moment the necessity of the circumstance is seen in its truth and the decision taken accordingly.

1 May 1946