Thanks to my steno, I survived. You cannot imagine the strain the clerical staff in Pakistan go through every day to think in mother tongue and to translate their thoughts into an alien language. For this purpose, as also to look after the remaining children, I need seven days leave. Last year also when I was faced with similar circumstances, I had applied for leave but was not granted, and the child in question died as a result thereof. This young man left service and did quite well as a cloth merchant.
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Let me add the adjective brain-dead to pygmies.