Javed

One seldom comes across a husband and wife who have both distinguished themselves in films, literature and activism and share an intellectual and emotional intimacy. Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar together form that rare couple, upending the general notion that celebrities are narcissists incapable of amicable personal relationships. Their joint project, a box set comprising two trilingual anthologies, Dhanak (The Rainbow) by Jan Nisar Akhtar and Daaera (The Circle) by Kaifi Azmi, shows that sometimes celebrity pairings…

When poet, lyricist, and screenplay writer Javed Akhtar was born, his father, a diehard Communist, read out the Communist Manifesto to him, instead of reciting the azaan, the Islamic call to prayer, in his ears, as is the tradition. The seeds were sown for an extraordinary journey. 214pp, Rs799; Westland Books Named Jaadu by his professor-writer parents Safia and Jan Nisar Akhtar (later changed to Javed when he was enrolled at school), life was magical till the day after his eighth birthday, when his mother died,…

Urfi Javed is a television personality who has become popular for her odd-looking fashion sense and interactions with paparazzi. This time, around Urfi Javed’s name has surfaced on social media for a whole different reason. Urfi wants to sue Uber as she alleges that her cab driver had disappeared with her luggage. She raised this issue on Twitter and other social media platforms and soon got a response from the cab aggregator. Had the worst experience with @UberINSupport @Uber in delhi,booked a cab for 6 hours,on my…

TV personality and social media sensation Urfi Javed has recently become more famous for her quirky fashion sense and her interactions with the paparazzi. Urfi is often criticized for her dressing sense, which is often not to everyone’s liking. A few weeks ago, Urfi announced on her Instagram account that she purchased a blue-coloured Jeep Compass. However, we have got some details about this, which indicate that the news might not be true at all. According to the RTO Parivahan app, the Jeep Compass, which Urfi Javed…

Taking proactive measures to ensure model reliability and availability in productionPhoto by Andreas Wagner on UnsplashAs businesses increasingly move towards machine learning and analytics based solutions, challenges arise when the models are put into production. One such challenge is the drift in model predictions which makes them less reliable in the long run.Nowhere is this phenomenon more visible than time series forecast models. Changes in economic cycles, monetary policies, consumer behavior and competitor activity…