She stopped binging on takeaways, going to the cinema and stepped away from social media. Instead, at her household house within the northern Indian metropolis of Chandigarh, she wakened on the daybreak, pored over textual content books and studied for as much as 10 hours a day. She crammed, did mock assessments, watched YouTube movies of achievers and browse newspapers and self-help books. Her dad and mom and brother turned her solely companions. “Loneliness will be your companion. This loneliness allows you to grow,” Ms Singla says.