One evening four I.A.S. officers got a bindas (uninhibited) lady probationer of Indian Railway Accounts Service drunk in a room of Kutesar Castle and then made her condition so pathetic that for about a month she could sit only on a pillow in the classroom. The matter had become the talk of the academy but the administrators, in their concern for the career of the young I.A.S. officers, initiated no action against those probationers, and considered it sufficient to advise them, “Choose bearable number.“

That was forty years ago- Cosmic Voices, who’s training to be a civil servant, says things have improved now. I’d say this: one comes across very few Freudian slips at his blog ever since he started writing about his life as a trainee.