A senior petroleum ministry official, who was delivering a speech at the production-sharing-contract-signing ceremony for the blocks awarded in the eighth round of the New Exploration Licence Policy, mentioned the names of most leading companies in the oil and gas business — Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Oil India Ltd, etc. — getting all their names right. However, he made an inexplicable mistake by referring to Reliance Industries Ltd as Reliance India Ltd. The proverbial Freudian slip?