Despite the growing presence of multinationals and the ongoing emphasis on work-culture in the corporate world, if the first preference of the Indian middle classes continues to be government service even today, it is largely related to the pleasures of irresponsibility, idleness, graft, bribery and other forms of corruption. So in the last six decades since independence, government service has turned into a synonym of all the above vices. This is how transfers and postings among the services have become an