My first Tedx Talk: From Pain to Purpose – My TEDx Journey

August 30, 2025 – A date etched in my life for more than one reason. Exactly 11 years ago , I got engaged. And on that very same date this year, I received a life-changing opportunity: my first TEDx talk , hosted at GGI under the inspiring theme “Chase the Impossible.” Standing on that red dot, I felt a mix of emotions — excitement , nervousness , and the quiet ache of loss , having lost my wife, whose memories remain deeply rooted in my heart. In my talk, I shared a story born in the midst of COVID-19 — a time when Ms. Renu and I were both navigating personal grief in different ways. It was during this difficult phase that Mr. Chaitanya brought us together — blending Renu’s deep nutritional expertise with my technical background . That collaboration gave birth to a vision: A platform that could reduce the time it takes to create personalized diets , enabling dieticians to focus more on care, empathy, and connection — and patients to avoid long queues and delays. What began in ...

Installing Ubuntu on Windows 10 using Powershell

Hey Friends,

Wish you a very happy new year 2019. This year I am going to start learning about cloud, vm(s), running dotnet core apps on linux distributions and hence will have our hands dirty on ubuntu.

I have been developing .Net apps from past many years now but I always wanted to run my apps on linux.

Glad to share that Windows 10 allows you to install linux distributions and hence we'll install ubuntu

I am going to demonstrate here, how you can install ubuntu on Windows 10 using powershell.
  • Open Powershell and run the following command

    Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://aka.ms/wsl-ubuntu-1604 -OutFile Ubuntu.appx -UseBasicParsing
    
  • You will get an ubntu.appx file. Double click to run the installation.
  • Woo hoo! You have linux installed in your system. Click on start and you should be able to see it.