Partition

Performance tuning in Snowflake is optimizing the configuration and SQL queries to improve the efficiency and speed of data operations. It involves adjusting various settings and writing queries to reduce execution time and resource consumption, ultimately leading to cost savings and enhanced user satisfaction.  Performance tuning is crucial in Snowflake for several reasons: Cost efficiency Improved query performance Enhanced user experience Scalability Resource optimization Concurrency and workload management…

A four-day cultural event celebrating 300 years of poet Mir Taqi Mir was held at the India International Centre in Delhi from February 15-18. ‘Meer ki Dilli, Shahjahanabad: The Evolving City’, organised by Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu (Hind), honoured the city’s rich poetic heritage and traced the ways in which the idea of Delhi as a political, cultural and civilisational hub has evolved through the ages. The different sessions, whose titles were taken from Mir’s poetry, had historians, artists, writers and scholars talking…

How did the idea for the book originate, especially considering its connection to Jashn-e-Talat, the concert you organized? An early picture of singer Talat Mahmood The idea for the book originated from a personal experience. Growing up, I knew Talat Mahmood as my grand uncle and had interactions with him as a family member. It wasn’t until much later in my journalism career, around 15 years in, that the concept took shape. Despite having friends in Bollywood reporting, and legends like Lata didi, I never…

Ali Akbar Natiq, the Urdu poet, has been the toast of the town among the Urdu literati in recent years. Accordingly, I came to his first novel Naulakhi Kothi with a great deal of excitement, not least because it also depicted a pre-Partition Punjab. Alas, I was much disappointed. View of Wah village in Rawalpindi district, Punjab, 1934. (Bristol Archives/Universal Image) 480pp, Rs599; Penguin While the translation by Naima Rashid was quite eloquent, the novel, as with much contemporary Urdu prose writing,…

And how to utilize it effectively in XGBoost modelPreview image (by author)Recently, my colleagues and I have been working on a big high-loaded service that utilizes the Xgboost machine learning model and Dask as the tool for distributed data processing and forecast generating. Here I would like to share findings that we have been able to maximize the use of Dask for the purpose of data preparation and ML model fitting.What is Dask?Dask is a library for distributed processing of large amounts of data. The basic concept…

In today's data-driven landscape, organizations are increasingly turning to robust solutions like AWS Data Lake to centralize vast amounts of structured and unstructured data. AWS Data Lake, a scalable and secure repository, allows businesses to store data in its native format, facilitating diverse analytics and machine learning tasks. One of the popular tools to query this vast reservoir of information is Amazon Athena, a serverless, interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data directly in Amazon S3 using…

In Violent Fraternity, Shruti Kapila examines the interaction of political ideas and political leaders in the larger context of India’s anti-colonial struggle and the making of post-colonial India. The theoretical analysis is mainly based on the ideas and views of figures such as Gandhi, Ambedkar, Nehru, Mohammad Iqbal, BG Tilak, Sardar Patel and others. The driving idea seems to be to locate political ideas generated in India in their rightful place within the rich tapestry of global political thought. Clearly, the…

Recorded history, the kind that has increasingly become unpopular these days, states the city that we know today as Delhi is actually not one but seven cities in one. Seasoned historians widely acknowledge the number could be even higher. The reason is pretty simple. Delhi has been the seat of power and the preferred capital of several famous and infamous emperors, kings, queens and despots since time immemorial. Due to its strategic location, it has, over the centuries, acquired many avatars and monikers — from…

The diversity of topics you’ve touched on in your work is intriguing. You’ve written a novel about a satellite television magnate who gets eaten by a huge fish and an investigation into Trump’s presidency, among others. How do you decide what to write a book about?I don’t think about this question. It’s important to follow your interest or what excites you. With the Trump book, there was a sense of derangement with what was happening in the US even though I was living abroad and my life was not connected to America. My…

How did the idea for a Partition trilogy come about? How did you go about zeroing in on Lahore, Hyderabad and Kashmir as focal points? Author Manreet Sodhi Someshwar (Courtesy the subject) I grew up in Ferozepur, which is smack on the border between India and Pakistan. That’s where my father’s family is from. I go back every year; my brother, my husband, my daughter, we all visit. I think it’s my home town that made me a writer. The peculiar thing about the town is that it was a Muslim majority town. So by the…