The world laps up those heart-rending rags to riches sports stories but is generally cold towards the less extreme but equally arduous struggles of middle-class kids burdened with expectations of juggling both sports and academics.
Often referred to as the harshly taxed and politically ignored section of society, the Indian lower middle class has found a surprising backer in the recently retired Indian cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin. He used to be one among them.