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Know Thyself (Or At Least Try): Self-Awareness as the Foundation of Effective Leadership

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000

There’s a certain irony in leadership development. You can master stakeholder matrices, project communication plans, and conflict resolution frameworks; and still be the reason your team is quietly updating their LinkedIn profiles.

Gallery

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Letters in Sanskrit

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000

भागवत गीता: Chapter

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000

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धृतराष्ट्र उवाच धर्मक्षेत्रे कुरुक्षेत्रे समवेता युयुत्सवः। मामकाः पाण्डवाश्चैव किमकुर्वत सञ्जय।।1.1।।

सञ्जय उवाच दृष्ट्वा तु पाण्डवानीकं व्यूढं दुर्योधनस्तदा। आचार्यमुपसङ्गम्य राजा वचनमब्रवीत्।।1.2।।

A walk down the memory lane: Ladakh

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Weekend

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Marathon

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Slide show

Sun, 12 Dec 2021 07:34:13 +0000

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Just on the sides

Thu, 09 Dec 2021 07:05:51 +0000

Happy Diwali

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 10:50:32 +0000

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DevBhoomi: Uttarkhand

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 05:48:24 +0000

Devil’n the camera

Wed, 17 Jun 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Painless Scripting

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Watcher

Sieve of Eratosthenes

Thu, 13 Feb 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Sieve is an ancient and an ingenious way of calculating primes. It recursively eliminates all the multiples of a particular number up till a range and the left overs are essentially primes.

Never ..be

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000

The date was set and the time was defined, nerves were there but so were the smiles.
The pain of wrong prognosis hadn’t set in, the malevolent doc had played her game.

Handshake: JS

Sat, 11 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Secret Handshake
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Objective was relatively simple.

A numeral will be provided as input.
Based on the binary equivalent, one needs to compute the secret handshake.

Rule for handshake.

Asynchronous

Thu, 09 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000

I learned a whole new dimension to this word, quite recently. Usually this word is used to express the non-blocking way of calling a program, a service or a code. Who would have thought it can be used for management or product development style as well.

Elastic 7.5

Mon, 06 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Installing
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Step 1: Using docker
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yum install docker
docker pull docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.5.1

systemctl list-units --type=service

docker version
Client:
 Version: 1.13.1
 API version: 1.26
 Package version:

Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

sudo systemctl start docker

docker version
Client:
 Version: 1.13.1
 API version: 1.26
 Package version: docker-1.13.1-103.git7f2769b.el7.centos.x86_64
 Go version: go1.10.3
 Git commit: 7f2769b/1.13.1
 Built: Sun Sep 15 14:06:47 2019
 OS/Arch: linux/amd64

Server:
 Version: 1.13.1
 API version: 1.26 (minimum version 1.12)
 Package version: docker-1.13.1-103.git7f2769b.el7.centos.x86_64
 Go version: go1.10.3
 Git commit: 7f2769b/1.13.1
 Built: Sun Sep 15 14:06:47 2019
 OS/Arch: linux/amd64
 Experimental: false

docker pull docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.5.1
Trying to pull repository docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch ... 
7.5.1: Pulling from docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch
c808caf183b6: Pull complete 
05ff3f896999: Pull complete 
82fb7fb0a94e: Pull complete 
c4d0024708f4: Pull complete 
136650a16cfe: Pull complete 
968db096c092: Pull complete 
42547e91692f: Pull complete 
Digest: sha256:b0960105e830085acbb1f9c8001f58626506ce118f33816ea5d38c772bfc7e6c
Status: Downloaded newer image for docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.5.1

docker pull docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:7.5.1

NGRX

Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Inspired by Redux, Store is RxJS powered state management for Angular applications. Store is a container for state of the application.

Refer to documentation at – https://ngrx.io/guide/store

Key components
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I have a sample application posted at https://www.github.com

Security Assertion Markup Language

Tue, 17 Sep 2019 12:00:00 +0000

What is SAML?
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Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an open standard that allows identity providers (IdP) to pass authorization credentials to service providers (SP). It implements a secure method of passing user authentications and authorizations (users, logins, and attributes) between the identity provider and service providers.

CSS continued

Fri, 15 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Pseudo classes
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State dependent styling, e.g Style a checkbox when it is in checked state. It is usually denoted by a preceding colon ‘:’ (without the quote).

How much more can you take?

Mon, 25 Feb 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Most of the times it is my wife who is diligently taking care of my little devil and sometimes I tag along. She is the one who has taken up the mettle of enduring the mud and crap the society throws at her. She is the one who has even given me courage everyday. One such face-offs she had quiet recently was when she was out with my little one, on one of the usual evening outings. My daughter is restless, full of energy and obviously autistic. Her biggest shortcoming she is unable to learn the semantics of – what you call a normal conversation.

What did the horse say?