{
  "id": 18506044,
  "title": "He had ₹1 cr job but wanted ‘sustainable happiness’: How Kanishak Kataria topped UPSC CSE, secured AIR 1 in 1st attempt",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/he-had-1-cr-job-but-wanted-sustainable-happiness-how-kanishak-kataria",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-06T12:44:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Live Mint",
    "slug": "live-mint",
    "url": "https://www.livemint.com/news/trends/he-had-1-cr-job-but-wanted-sustainable-happiness-how-kanishak-kataria-topped-upsc-cse-secured-air-1-in-1st-attempt-11793968254083.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Kanishak Kataria left a high-paying software career in South Korea to pursue India’s civil services examination. After working in Bengaluru and preparing since 2017, he secured All India Rank 1 in the 2018 UPSC exam and joined the Rajasthan cadre as an IAS officer.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}