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

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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 ...

Resolved: Getting 404 on refresh in angular or react application

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 PROBLEM: If you are working with a single page application (SPA) say an application built with Angular or React, you may get a 404 when you hit a refresh on a specific route and you host your application on Apache Server.

Solution

Simply add a .htaccess file in the root directory of your application or website and your problem should be solved

 

RewriteEngine on
#RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]

RewriteRule ^(.*) /index.html [NC,L]


# RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}/index.html
# RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ index.html [L]
# RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.html$
# RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}\.(php|html)$ /index.html [L,R=302]