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Kristen Kish was going through airport security in Dubai when the call came in that provoked the sort of clock-ticking, accelerated-heart-rate feeling the former “Top Chef” winner was familiar with during all those Quickfire challenges. Like most fans of Bravo’s cooking competition, Kish was stunned to learn last June that Padma Lakshmi was stepping down as host of Bravo’s “Top Chef” after 19 seasons. “I couldn’t believe it,” Kish said. Not long after the announcement, while traveling back home to New York from a work…

“This was a really tough decision,” said Padma Lakshmi, seconds before announcing the winner of “Top Chef: World All Stars” during Thursday’s season finale. The sentiment also applies to last week’s bombshell news that the 20th season of Bravo’s reality series would be the Emmy-nominated host and executive producer‘s last. “After much soul searching, I have made the difficult decision to leave ‘Top Chef,’” Lakshmi shared on Instagram. “I am extremely proud to have been part of building such a successful show and of the…

Indian American model, TV host, author and activist Padma Lakshmi was among TIME 100`s Most Influential People in the world earlier this year, and she also featured in the latest Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. "I feel surreal. I`ve just been so tired that I haven`t really had time to process it. But I`m very thankful that people love the show and I`m really honoured about the Time 100 thing," Padma told the New York Post newspaper`s Page Six Style column when reflecting on her success, reports aceshowbiz.com. The…

Padma Lakshmi Reaches New Heights! Enters TIME 100 Most Influential People List, Features On Latest Sports-Illustrated Swimsuit Issue(Photo Credit: Bang Showbiz) Padma Lakshmi’s recent successes feel “surreal”. The 52-year-old star was named one of TIME 100’s Most Influential People in the world earlier this year, and she also featured in the latest Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Reflecting on her success, Padma told the New York Post newspaper’s Page Six Style column: “I feel surreal. “I’ve just been so tired…

Padma Lakshmi Breaks Silence For The First Time After Breaking The Internet With Golden Bikini Pics ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) The Indian-American author, actress and model Padma Lakshmi has always been known for her awe-inspiring looks and how she carries herself. She recently sent the internet on meltdown after a picture of herself in a golden bikini went viral on social media. The 52-year-old, who keeps giving us a sneak peek into her glam side, took to Instagram to share a behind-the-scenes video of her bikini…

A step-by-step guide to building a cricket chatbot using RASA & PythonIn this article, we shall be building a simple cricket chatbot using the RASA framework. The focus of the article is to understand the basics of RASA and show how quickly one can get started with a working bot.Image: Courtesy PixabayWhat is RASA?RASA is an open-source tool that uses natural language understanding to develop AI-based chatbots. It provides a framework that can be used to create chatbots with minimal coding skills. RASA allows the…

Indian American model, TV host, author and activist Padma Lakshmi sent her good wishes to her former-husband and Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie as he recovers from severe injuries sustained from stabbing. Lakshmi, who was married to the author from 2004 to 2007, tweeted on August 14, two days after the incident: “Relieved Salman Rushdie is pulling through after Friday’s nightmare. Worried and wordless, can finally exhale. Now hoping for swift healing,” as per reports. Also Read: Salman Rushdie…

A quick guide to generate a word cloud from multiple documentsA word cloud is a data visualization tool for depicting words in an image. The size of each word varies and it represents the weightage of the word. Larger the size, higher is its importance. In most cases, the frequency of occurrence of a word is used as its weightage.Word cloud has various applications in the data science field. It is normally used during the exploratory data analysis phase of a NLP task. It gives a quick overview on the frequently occurring…