{"id":367542,"date":"2018-09-14T07:58:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T11:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/?guid=314551554f2f364a8229368863786c4e"},"modified":"2018-09-14T07:58:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T11:58:02","slug":"the-first-ias-from-his-region-heres-how-this-man-became-a-path-setter-the-better-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2018\/09\/14\/the-first-ias-from-his-region-heres-how-this-man-became-a-path-setter-the-better-india\/","title":{"rendered":"The First IAS From His Region, Here&#8217;s How This Man Became a Path-Setter &#8211; The Better India"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"7\" style=\"vertical-align:top;\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"80\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\"><font style=\"font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=t&amp;fd=R&amp;ct2=us&amp;usg=AFQjCNGEsK-qtQMV5LVxDQ7b4YjfR8KOzg&amp;clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&amp;ei=B6ibW4qGC4yFmwWNop24Ag&amp;url=https:\/\/www.thebetterindia.com\/159379\/ias-hero-manipur-upsc\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcToGHVHvl5r3lPrW11_M6CbamgpUgxnIRPAL0E_DRMjkq2sm5u03aTvEhIorAF5ItoDyYcfQSJe\" alt=\"\" border=\"1\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\"><br \/><font size=\"-2\">The Better India<\/font><\/a><\/font><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" class=\"j\"><font style=\"font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-top:0.8em;\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"lh\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=t&amp;fd=R&amp;ct2=us&amp;usg=AFQjCNGEsK-qtQMV5LVxDQ7b4YjfR8KOzg&amp;clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&amp;ei=B6ibW4qGC4yFmwWNop24Ag&amp;url=https:\/\/www.thebetterindia.com\/159379\/ias-hero-manipur-upsc\/\"><b>The First IAS From His Region, Here&#39;s How This Man Became a Path-Setter<\/b><\/a><br \/><font size=\"-1\"><b><font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Better India<\/font><\/b><\/font><br \/><font size=\"-1\">S Asker Ali, the protagonist of this story, belongs to a community in <b>Manipur<\/b> called Meitei-Pangal. Forming a mere eight per cent of the state&#39;s population, the Meitei Pangal has been a marginalised community, with hardly any opportunities for exposure.<\/font><br \/><font size=\"-1\" class=\"p\"><\/font><br \/><font class=\"p\" size=\"-1\"><a class=\"p\" href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/more?ncl=dAaJCF2xzoauO7M&amp;authuser=0&amp;ned=us\"><nobr><b><\/b><\/nobr><\/a><\/font><\/div>\n<p><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=t&#038;fd=R&#038;ct2=us&#038;usg=AFQjCNGEsK-qtQMV5LVxDQ7b4YjfR8KOzg&#038;clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&#038;ei=B6ibW4qGC4yFmwWNop24Ag&#038;url=https:\/\/www.thebetterindia.com\/159379\/ias-hero-manipur-upsc\/\">http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=t&amp;fd=R&amp;ct2=us&amp;usg=AFQjCNGEsK-qtQMV5LVxDQ7b4YjfR8KOzg&amp;clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&amp;ei=B6ibW4qGC4yFmwWNop24Ag&amp;url=https:\/\/www.thebetterindia.com\/159379\/ias-hero-manipur-upsc\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"7\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"80\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=t&amp;fd=R&amp;ct2=us&amp;usg=AFQjCNGEsK-qtQMV5LVxDQ7b4YjfR8KOzg&amp;clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&amp;ei=B6ibW4qGC4yFmwWNop24Ag&amp;url=https:\/\/www.thebetterindia.com\/159379\/ias-hero-manipur-upsc\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcToGHVHvl5r3lPrW11_M6CbamgpUgxnIRPAL0E_DRMjkq2sm5u03aTvEhIorAF5ItoDyYcfQSJe\" alt=\"\" border=\"1\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\"><br \/>The Better India<\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><\/p>\n<div><img alt=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=t&amp;fd=R&amp;ct2=us&amp;usg=AFQjCNGEsK-qtQMV5LVxDQ7b4YjfR8KOzg&amp;clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&amp;ei=B6ibW4qGC4yFmwWNop24Ag&amp;url=https:\/\/www.thebetterindia.com\/159379\/ias-hero-manipur-upsc\/\"><b>The First IAS From His Region, Here&#8217;s How This Man Became a Path-Setter<\/b><\/a><br \/><b>The Better India<\/b><br \/>S Asker Ali, the protagonist of this story, belongs to a community in <b>Manipur<\/b> called Meitei-Pangal. Forming a mere eight per cent of the state&#8217;s population, the Meitei Pangal has been a marginalised community, with hardly any opportunities for exposure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/more?ncl=dAaJCF2xzoauO7M&amp;authuser=0&amp;ned=us\"><b><\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4],"tags":[332],"class_list":["post-367542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-news","category-news","tag-google-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367545,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367542\/revisions\/367545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}