{"id":937468,"date":"2025-06-10T07:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T02:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=937468"},"modified":"2025-06-10T07:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T02:18:12","slug":"rapido-how-underdogs-are-turning-the-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/10\/rapido-how-underdogs-are-turning-the-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapido: How underdogs are turning the tide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSome days there was no food on the table\u201d was dinner-time reality for Pavan Guntupalli during his childhood. But his parents, like most middle class Indian families, scraped together for education despite facing crushing financial pressures. Both his siblings became doctors. He got into IIT Kharagpur. The family had bet everything on education to provide escape velocity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSome days there was no food on the table\u201d was dinner-time reality for Pavan Guntupalli during his childhood. But his parents, like most middle class Indian families, scraped together for education despite facing crushing financial pressures. Both his siblings became doctors. He got into IIT Kharagpur. The family had bet everything on education to provide escape velocity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}