Mother's Day

Ode to Mother's day - From a pathetic son

Few more hours and Mother's Day will come to an end.
Of all the arguements from critics that 365 days a year is Mother's Day which I do acknowledge ( caz we make her work for us everyday ) , still I feel having a well marked date on the Calender is important.
      Specially for those unlucky souls like me who doesn't have the opportunity to be with her everyday ( though my parents visit me often ) coupled with our busy life.
     Atleast you can set reminder on your mobile and call her to wish Happy Mother's Day.
     Reading Tagore's poem
    '
       মাকে আমার পড়ে না মনে।
শুধু কখন খেলতে গিয়ে
হঠাৎ অকারণে
একটা কী সুর গুনগুনিয়ে
কানে আমার বাজে,
মায়ের কথা মিলায় যেন
আমার খেলার মাঝে। '

As I look back into my  childhood , I see how vast a space she occupies and how much I learnt from her.
    Of all the sweetest memories I had of her and my childhood clasped together  , I do remember summer afternoons when she read stories to my sister and me.Her tired voice having a tinge of sleepiness , long pauses between paragraphs with her eyes closed , and then again going back to read the story to us.
Imagine a mother who had been like Dasabhuja ( Maa Durga with her ten hands ) from the dawn , completing all household chores and then during her little afternoon nap she read us stories.
  Perhaps it was only due to her that I was attracted to books from such an early age.
    I still remember our home in a small town where my father was posted was kind of a mini-library.
     By class 5 ,I had started reading Tagore , Maxim Gorky , O Henry , Naipaul , Dickens , HG Wells and many others.
It was such a wonderful world !
    Of all the ocean of things which I learnt from from her , below few were vital :

1) Help others no matter who he or she is .
2) All jobs have equal importance in its own glory , from a cobbler to an officer.
3) Read books as much as you can , all kind , fiction, non-fiction , autobiographies .
4) It's ok to fail in life . Life doesn't stop with a failure.
5) Be happy with whatever you have.You are lucky than many others.
6) Love God for all that you got in life.

I think of whatever I could make of myself till date , it's 99% her teachings and prayers coupled with God's blessings , and 1% I do keep for mine effort.
    As I go back to my childhood I felt of all the friends I had , books had been my best friend.Tagore was an Ocean , His poems transforming your mundane life. It was interesting to know that Nobel prize winning writer VS Naipaul doubled her wife as his secretary in disguise.And of so many amazing things.
   I can keep on writing as words flows in , but somewhere I have to draw a line.
    I can only pray that God give her strenth to fight all illness and she stays as beautiful as she had always been for the next 100 years and more.
      And that she does forgive her pathetic son for all his weakness.
 
Happy Mother's Day , Maa .

#MothersDay.

Kishore Kumar- Those were the days

Kisore Kumar -

When I look back into the reminiscences of my youthful past on such a lazy tiring saturday evening like today, this heartfelt song brings back a smile to me.
   My smile is like the half crescent moon hovering above me as clouds glides by , the  darkened eaten-up side resembling those bygone days.
The city , as I look by , is a swarm of moving golden bees , while at some corner the enigmatic voice of this great man slowly wafts into the air.
My city has the smell of music even in its polluted air.
All thanks to this legend who will always be  in our hearts of heart.
At the junction of a curved roadway playing hide and seek with darkness and shadow, I can see few young hearts having an adda.
    In our times of sans facebook, whatsapp and twitter days , evenings were beautiful adda with Kisore Da's songs.
Life was simpler then , probably.
   Love was silent too, unlike so loud now-a-days.
    And lost love or secret untold crushes were Kisore Da's melancholic melodies.
    I remember we had a prized possesion at our home , a Gramaphone which my parents got as a wedding gift.
   And some beautiful records , those circular large disks wirh hole at its centre .
    You have to put in the record on the gramaphone and put the diamond tipped pin at the first curve to start the song.
   And of went that everlasting profound voice !
   We had the record of Mili's  ( the movie ) song.
Somehow of all those great songs it had , Badi Sooni Sooni Hai struck a chord with the saddened nerves of my heart.
  By then I had seen the movie quite few times , and this song and that angry young man in the movie has created a hole in my heart.
      I am not sure which was greater , the euphoria or my pain , but the potrayal of a pained angry youth with that glass in his hand made me felt like enacting it.
  Like you want to create the perfect moment of joy in your life to silently enjoy your untold feelings.
I still remember on days when my parent had a party or was outside , I would first close all the doors and windows and put Mili's record to play.
Only this song in infinity loop.
Most importantly , I would wear the attire which the angry young man had , a white kurta and pyjama .
It gave you that perfect curated feelings !
   And switching off the lights , of went the song , Badi Sooni Sooni hai , the glass in my hand with the dreadful liquid in it.
  It was dark outside , the curved roads playing hide and seek with light and shadow.
    And as Kisore Da sang , my pain melted in that glass .

May the great soul be ever alive in our hearts of heart with his everlasting melodies.

#KishoreKumar

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Board results are OUT !

Board results are out.

While it's really heartening and blissfully sweet to see parents rejoicing their child's success , a dark cloud of despair swarmps over those who were not so lucky.
And with social connects entwining our lives , its far more difficult.

Back in our times it was not so broadcasting types , while now if an unfortunate soul have failed or done badly it would do quite few rounds across the nation.
This is exactly the time when parents need to show their love.

Dont ostracize , that probably what others are doing with your kid, his or her  friends, teachers , colony's aunty and uncles.
Tell him that its ok to fail , life doesn't stop there, just a board exam can't decide the fate of someone.
Anyone to say.

The are quite many examples of people who didn't fare well in education leave apart board exams and are just doing Great.
Trust me.
The guy with a company now valuated at $ 4 Billion didn't even care to complete his education.
There are many such examples.
Just say with a smile to your kid that it's ok to fail, we all do in some form or other...and say that it doesn't reduces an aota of your love.
There are far bigger fights to be own , and he or she needs a strong confidence and not a broken heart.


- To all those parents whose kid still believes in their hearts of heart that their father is Ironman and will protect him from all Thanos in the world .

Magic of a New Year

The magic of a New Year -

Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts.
The first part is called The Pledge.
The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object.

The second act is called The Turn.
 The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary.
But making something disappear isn’t enough; you have to bring it back.

That’s why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call “The Prestige” .

Every new fresh year spins a similiarity to above. We start the year with something ordinary albeit afresh dreams and aspirations.
It's that part throughout the year wherein we try our best to turn the ordinary into something extraordinary.
And it doesn't always have to be cash , kind  do take a major role.
Extraordinary is that when you have walked the extra mile to add value to other people lives.
The third act is to then make extraordinary a repetative process to make it look ordinary or normal so as to say.

That's how you earn Prestige .

- S.B.

#NewYear #2019

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RudraAI VOICE BOT

#VoiceBOT #VoiceAI #VoiceOverShoppingAssistant #VoiceRecognition #MachineLearning #AI #DeepLearning

Complete  Video of Voice over Shopping BOT which can place order over Voice command . 

VOICE AI BOT

#VoiceBOT #VoiceAI #VoiceOverShoppingAssistant #VoiceRecognition #MachineLearning #AI #DeepLearning

Created a Voice over Shopping BOT which can place order over Voice command .

In the 1st level, Rudra could :

1) Understand voice and take appropriate action e.g.     

 i) Shows the current time when asked the time    

ii) Opens up Google Map when asked for a place ( e.g. Where is Taj Mahal? )

 iii) Opens up the appropriate Shopping Platform ( e.g. #Amazon or #Myntra or #Jabong etc ) when asked to find the item - like find me a red shirt from Jabong .

iv) Can scan images among multiple images in a folder ( think from a UI perspective that you are uploading an image ) and find the appropriate item from the shopping platform.

In the 2nd Level, I had tried to make Rudra reaching towards the Goal like buying me an item . For example, if I say -Buy me a white Shirt from Myntra , it first opens up the appropriate search , then selects the item , then selects the appropriate size , adding it to shopping bag and placing the order  .

Due to security reasons, Myntra couldn't let me move to the final level  after multiple testing , which is understandable but Goal accomplished !

How to : Your VOICE Based AI

#SpeechRecognition #VoiceBasedAI #DeepLearning #SpeechToText #Abzooba Created a simple Voice based AI Assistant using speech recognition library in python. It does the following : 1) Understands voice 2) Can convert speech to text ( My starting point , as wanted an Assistant who can help me write my stories )

3) Perform simple actions ,Like ?

3A) You ask for the current time and get's it instantly. 3B) Understands the intent or context in the speech and can perform specific action e.g. When I ask Rudra ( Have named my AI after Lord Shiva ) to find the location of a place , it automatically opens Google Map with the particular location , or when I ask to find a similar kind of shirt by providing the picture of a blue shirt , it scans the image and then find similar looking shirt in #Amazon or #Myntra.

Interesting, isn't it?

Pray to Lord Rudra and get started !


Let's look into how I did it.


Some Important Stuff FIRST -

For Speech Recognition, you need Speech Recognition library.

Do a pip install and get it installed.

pyaudio will also be required.

I am using Keras ( which using tensorflow backend) here for further processing .

Google has a great Speech Recognition API. This API converts spoken text (microphone) into written text (Python strings), briefly Speech to Text.

A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal language text into speech.



Let's Look into the WorkFlow :

Let's see how it works :

A)  I say what TIME is it ....

Good, let's move to more complex stuff !

B)  I say to find me a Location like let's say I ask - Where is Abzooba ?

Automatically opens up Chrome browser with Goggle Map location the particular address.

Great , now let's move to more Complex things .

C) I show an Image to Rudra - I have kept the image in a folder as for now but once you create a simple UI along with it you can just upload the image .

I ask Rudra to search for similar item in #Myntra

Rudra scans the image and then automatically opens up Myntra for the possible choices.