Indra Sen's Correspondence with The Mother

2 May 1946

I feel very sorry that I took the work-docket incident so seriously and that you had to hear so many representations of it. This morning I was happy to read your note to me. I told Mr. P and D that Mother seems to suggest that D may be given the work he wants.

I must confess that I do feel a little confused and worried because just when we were settling down to our duties and responsibilities, some fresh sensational changes are being attempted. But I have become used to disorderliness and am prepared for all sorts of things.

You must have misunderstood me because I never intended that D (or anybody else) should have things his own way. I am not either against organisation and order. But as yet I have not been told in a clear and exact way the attribution of each one—or rather the reports do not tally—and meanwhile I am objecting to the mental movement that cuts things like with a sharp knife and says this is mine, that is yours.

2 May 1946