Kumar

In Sandip Ray’s 1988 documentary Zindagi Ek Safar, Rajesh Khanna recalls his first meeting with Kishore Kumar. The ace singer had called him to his place, where he listened to the actor talking and reacting to his questions for more than 30 minutes. Khanna later figured out that Kishore was studying his face, voice and style of speech so he could adapt their characteristics into his own voice. He was so successful at it that when Khanna first heard Mere Sapnon Ki Rani from Aradhana, he felt like he was singing it…

In Sandip Ray’s 1988 documentary Zindagi Ek Safar, Rajesh Khanna recalls his first meeting with Kishore Kumar. The ace singer had called him to his place, where he listened to the actor talking and reacting to his questions for more than 30 minutes. Khanna later figured out that Kishore was studying his face, voice and style of speech so he could adapt their characteristics into his own voice. He was so successful at it that when Khanna first heard Mere Sapnon Ki Rani from Aradhana, he felt like he was singing it…

IntroductionIn 2014, Ian Goodfellow came up with the idea of GAN or vanilla GAN as we call it today. Although impressive, it was notoriously hard to train. Vanilla GAN suffered from an inability to converge, vanishing gradients, and mode collapse. Subsequently, a ton of research centred around addressing these issues. Researchers experimented with different model architectures, loss functions, and training methodologies. A particularly effective solution was Wasserstein GAN, introduced in 2017 by Arjovsky et al.Photo by…

The British luxury automaker Rolls Royce is known as the pinnacle of opulence and success and most of the world’s powerful and elite people use it as their choice of transportation. A few years ago, India did not have that many Rolls Royce owners, but as of recently, these ultra-luxurious and mega-expensive luxobarges have gained a lot more popularity in the country. Recently one of India’s top businessmen, Kumar Mangalam Birla, also welcomed a new Rolls Royce Ghost to his stable. The billionaire picked up a…

BharatPe Chairman Rajnish Kumar allegedly showed early signs of "wanting control" and to "make money out of BharatPe", the fintech platform's former Co-founder and managing director Ashneer Grover has claimed in his book titled 'Doglapan'. Grover, who last week said in a tweet that hiring Kumar was his "biggest mistake", wrote that his exit from BharatPe has been the most publicly covered controversy of the startup world, "more importantly thanks to my own stakeholders, who plotted the most Machiavellian plot to get rid…

BackgroundI find it hard to keep my hands steady while clicking pictures. Naturally, many of them suffer from a blur. If you relate to this problem, you’re at the right place. While I can’t teach you photography, I can show you a technique to de-blur images with a few lines of python code. Given the craze around deep learning, one solution would be to train an autoencoder. But, they are computationally expensive to train and sometimes, classical methods work just fine. So, we will instead use the Fourier transform.Fourier…

Indian cricketer Surya Kumar Yadav is known for his swashbuckling knocks and prolific run-getting but there’s one more aspect about him that few people know about. He’s one of the biggest car nuts in the Indian cricket team, next to perhaps only Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh. While Dhoni has an entire museum dedicated to his vehicles, Surya Kumar Yadav is more hands-on. He owns a detailing studio in Mumbai. Called ‘The Detailing Studio’, this high-end car polish and cleaning outfit is co-owned by the cricketer.…

For modern-day businesses, gathering informative insights and deploying them to promote industry-focused practices has become quite critical. Almost all the big players in the industrial space are aiming to become agile and act quickly based on data-driven insights. Data has emerged as an invaluable asset for organizations. However, the challenge is to draw out actionable insights, which can be shifted to productive business goals and attain organizational objectives.  UC Health is an integrated academic health system…

Twelfth June 1975. Justice Jaganmohanlal Sinha of the Allahabad High Court had just disbarred Indira Gandhi as an MP, owing to electoral malpractices. The judgement was consequent to a petition filed in 1971 by Raj Narain, who had lost the Raibareilly constituency to Mrs Gandhi. The vacation judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Krishna Iyer, granted only a partial stay. As a result, Mrs Gandhi could now speak as the Prime Minister but not as an MP. She could not even draw her salary as a Member of Parliament. 555pp,…

Akshay Kumar was spotted arriving at a multiplex in Mumbai in his Mercedes Benz V-Class. The luxury MPV was launched in India in 2019 and was later discontinued. Bollywood and luxury vehicles go hand in hand. It is no surprise that Bollywood actors own some of the most exotic rides in the country. Despite being uber-expensive to own and maintain, these vehicles often become a style statement for celebs. Luxury vehicles are the first choice of Bollywood stars, all thanks to the supreme comfort and luxury that these…