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 ...

How to find duplicates in an array in JavaScript?

Problem:

I was having a huge JSON file which contained almost 29K records and I was not sure whether or not it contains duplicates.

I want to find whether or not a JSON file contains duplicates.

Solution:

  1. I wrote a script in nodejs and used JavaScript Set which stores the unique values.
  2. Here is the script:

    const idSet = new Set();
        const hasDuplicateData = data.some((element) => {
         // for each element in test[] try to add the id to idSet
         return idSet.size === idSet.add(element.id).size;
       });
  3. Here is the github link.
Happy Coding!!!