{"id":147110,"date":"2025-01-04T15:37:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T22:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=147110"},"modified":"2025-01-04T15:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T22:37:30","slug":"why-it-is-easier-to-get-into-harvard-than-in-an-iit-shashi-tharoor-iit-vs-mit-iit-vs-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/01\/04\/why-it-is-easier-to-get-into-harvard-than-in-an-iit-shashi-tharoor-iit-vs-mit-iit-vs-harvard\/","title":{"rendered":"Why it is easier to get into Harvard than in an IIT | Shashi Tharoor | IIT vs MIT | IIT vs Harvard"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Centre Stage<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sashi Tharoor &#8211; a political priority for India..<br>.. relevant for Sri Lanka as much as it is for India..<br>&#8230;policy our past dynastic political leaders chose to do otherwise&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why it is easier to get into Harvard than in an IIT | Shashi Tharoor | IIT vs MIT | IIT vs Harvard\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5LAf1gU5308?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centre Stage Sashi Tharoor &#8211; a political priority for India&#8230;. relevant for Sri Lanka as much as it is for India..&#8230;policy our past dynastic political leaders chose to do otherwise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}