{"id":28202,"date":"2018-10-24T11:17:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T05:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28202"},"modified":"2018-10-24T11:17:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T05:47:36","slug":"magsaysay-for-3-idiots-muse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/magsaysay-for-3-idiots-muse\/","title":{"rendered":"Magsaysay for \u20183 idiots\u2019 muse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/magsaysay-for-3-idiots-muse\/article24524257.ece\">Magsaysay for \u20183 idiots\u2019 muse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Two Indians are among six winners picked for the 2018 Raman Magsaysay Awards.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. Name of awardees:-<\/p>\n<p><u>From India:<\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>Name:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>3. Sonam Wangchuk, educational reformer from Ladakh, widely regarded as the inspiration for Aamir Khan\u2019s character, Phunsuk Wangdu in the film \u20183 Idiots\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><u>\u00a0Achievement:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 1988, Wangchuk founded the Students\u2019 Education and Cultural Movement of Ladakh to coach Ladakhi students, 95% of whom used to fail the government exams.<\/li>\n<li>In 1994, with him in the lead, Operation New Hope was launched to consolidate the programme.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4. Bharat Vatwani, a psychiatrist who works for mentally ill street\u00a0people\u00a0in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p><u>Achievement:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vatwani was recognised for \u201chis tremendous courage and healing compassion\u201d in embracing mentally-afflicted destitute people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Awardees from other countries:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The others are Youk Chhang from Cambodia, Maria de Lourdes Martins Cruz from East Timor, Howard Dee from the Philippines and Vo Thi Hoang Yen from Vietnam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>5. Ramon Maysaysay award:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0Ramon Magsaysay Award\u00a0is an annual award established to perpetuate former\u00a0Philippine President Ramon Magsaysays.<\/li>\n<li>The prize was established in April 1957 by the trustees of the\u00a0Rockefeller Brothers Fund\u00a0based in\u00a0New York City\u00a0with the concurrence of the\u00a0Philippine government.<\/li>\n<li>The award is internationally-recognized as Asia\u2019s Nobel Prize counterpart and is the highest award given to Asian individuals and organizations.<\/li>\n<li>It is awarded for outstanding contributions in government services, public service, community leadership, journalism, literature and creative communication arts, peace and international understanding and emergent leadership.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magsaysay for \u20183 idiots\u2019 muse News: Two Indians are among six winners picked for the 2018 Raman Magsaysay Awards. Important facts: 2. Name of awardees:- From India: Name: 3. Sonam Wangchuk, educational reformer from Ladakh, widely regarded as the inspiration for Aamir Khan\u2019s character, Phunsuk Wangdu in the film \u20183 Idiots\u2019. \u00a0Achievement: In 1988, Wangchuk&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/magsaysay-for-3-idiots-muse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Magsaysay for \u20183 idiots\u2019 muse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704904755},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}