She stopped binging on takeaways, going to the cinema and stepped away from social media. As a substitute, at her household residence within the northern Indian metropolis of Chandigarh, she awoke on the daybreak, pored over textual content books and studied for as much as 10 hours a day. She crammed, did mock checks, watched YouTube movies of achievers and browse newspapers and self-help books. Her mother and father and brother grew to become her solely companions. “Loneliness shall be your companion. This loneliness permits you to develop,” Ms Singla says.