{"id":21374,"date":"2020-08-05T15:45:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T06:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/aug\/05\/how-renamed-streets-in-mumbais-slums-are-encouraging-children-to-study"},"modified":"2020-08-05T15:45:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T06:45:23","slug":"how-renamed-streets-in-mumbais-slums-are-encouraging-children-to-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21374","title":{"rendered":"How renamed streets in Mumbai&#8217;s slums are encouraging children to study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mobile school helped Rehmuddin Shaikh become a rugby star. Now a street named after him is inspiring a new generation<\/p>\n<p>No map of Mumbai mentions Rehmuddin Shaikh Road. But a local taxi driver would find the narrow lane between the huts in Ambedkar Nagar, Colaba, behind Mumbai\u2019s elite Cuffe Parade. Despite not being officially named by the city authorities, the road boasts a new signpost.<\/p>\n<p>Rehmuddin Chittasahab Shaikh grew up and still lives here. Today, he is a rugby star, winning national gold and silver medals and and now coaching the Indian women\u2019s team. He is one of the only four coaches in India to qualify for the World Rugby Level 3 coaching course.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/aug\/05\/how-renamed-streets-in-mumbais-slums-are-encouraging-children-to-study\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mobile school helped Rehmuddin Shaikh become a rugby star. Now a street named after him is inspiring a new generationNo map of Mumbai mentions Rehmuddin Shaikh Road. But a local taxi driver would find the narrow lane between the huts in Ambedkar Naga&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1492,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[615,59,62,454,958,79,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-global-development","category-india","category-mumbai","category-poverty","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21375,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21374\/revisions\/21375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}