And since not even the dubbawalli can deliver without a proper addressee marked she went off to the only place which could help her find the recipient if she searched for democracy in places where she he or the hijra might first find her feet so off she went and this
is what she found in the words of NORMAN F. DIXON about 'OUR OWN WORST ENEMY'
"Imagine an extremely harge university department. With its millions of students and hundred thousand members of staff, it provides what has come to be accepted as the normal staff/student ratio. Imagine too that vast department is controlled from two small, adjoining offices. The outer one is inhabited by a woman with a manner as forbidding as the north face of the Eiger. She is efficient, strong-willed and neurotically possessive. She is the department secretary. And in the inner office sits the focus of her protective instincts-- the department chairman. He is an ageing, introverted professor. He much prefers thinking about his research, his orchids and the Vice-Chancellor's very young wife (but not necessarily in that order) than the day-to-day running of the department. Together these two manage the department. HOw do they do it?
THE SHORT ANSWER
IS
BY DELEGATION
AND
DEFENCE.
HE DELEGATES.
Te routine tasks to his academic staff and senior students.
SHE, THE DRAGON AT THE GATE,
DEFENDS HIM AGAINST ALL THOSE
WHO MIGHT OTHERWISE
DISTURB THE CALM OF THE
THE INNER OFFICE.
In this capacity, she acts as an almost impenetrable barrier to bad news."
