“I can suspend you for this.” “Withdraw your report right away or I’ll have you thrown in some menial ministry.” “You think you can get away after messing with my system?” The threats have become clichéd for Abhimanyu. A young man from the small town of Bhilai, he has joined the Indian Administrative Services with an aim to work for the people. His journey, which begins as a trainee to learn the art of administration, soon exposed the severely ingrained malice and corruption in India's governance. He witnesses how the rep tape of bureaucracy has wrapped the entire country, how every stratum of the administration is disinclined towards working and when it does work, is involved in trivial or considerable amount of corruption. Determined to change this status quo, Abhimanyu rattled several cages, inviting trouble for himself. Would he be able to overcome the odds or would his career be defined by a series of transfers like most honest bureaucrats?
