NEW DELHI: In Tamil, the word “Anna” means elder brother, someone who watches your back, even if there is no blood relation. Bollywood gave its own version in "Shaadi Se Pehle", with Sunil Shetty, playing a gangster, coming up with a one-liner: “Apun Anna 24 ghante chaukanna. ” (I’m Anna, always alert). For Vaishali Rameshbabu, one of India's only four female Grandmasters, that kind of loud alertness wouldn’t have helped; what she needed was someone to pull her up when she had already written herself out of the game a couple of months back. After a rough Chennai Grand Masters, where she scored just one point and lost seven games in a row, the 24-year-old had made up her mind - she wouldn’t play the Women’s Grand Swiss, the very tournament she had won in its previous edition. “It mi

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