The pressure arrives before the syllabus does
Ananya Reddy, who cleared UPSC Civil Services in her first attempt, says the hardest conversation she had in her final year was not with her mock-interview panel. It was with her father at 6 a.m. on a Sunday, when he slid a newspaper clipping of someone else's rank across the breakfast table without saying a word. That silence, she says, cost her three days of focus she never got back.
