Smriti Mandhana says “sympathy feels worse” (Image: https://www.facebook.com/mandhanasmriti18/photos Smriti Mandhana’s recent conversation with Raj Shamani is interesting not because she reveals every painful detail, but because of what she says about how she chooses to deal with pain. In an interview centred on pressure, mistakes, emotions and failure, the Indian cricketer repeatedly returns to one…

Sidharth Babu, an IFS officer, caught attention in the viral BRICS photograph. A photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi standing alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the BRICS Summit has drawn widespread attention. But while the three leaders naturally became the focus of the frame, social media users were quick…