Indra Sen's Correspondence with The Mother

17 August 1946

Here is the application of the compositor to rejoin the Press. May he be allowed to join the Press upon payment of one rupee for the pictures he took? May he be paid 50% of his wages for the days he was suspended; this would be a concession to him more or less?

I had said immediately that he had to be taken back into service, asking him only to pay the price of the stolen pictures. As for his pay we may have to pay all if we claim the one rupee or else to give him 50% of his wages and not to claim the one rupee. Both things (one rupee plus 50% deduction) seems to me rather too much.

17 August 1946