It is a beautiful thing to have people be gentle to you, to believe in you. I needed it because when I went back to India, the stories were all negative. Just another Indian who had buckled, just the same old story. You get branded, put in a box, and that’s it. I was burning inside, with anger, with disbelief, with the ignorance of some of the views. But I had to shut up. You lose, you keep quiet, you swallow your excuses, it’s the rule. Winning is the only licence to talk in sport.
