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Couple of years back, during the Covid lockdown, I had worked on creating many short stories about Indian heroes with the purpose of spreading awareness about them. This was before the arrival of GenerativeAI age. During a break recently, a thought came across on how can one use GenerativeAI to create something simple yet interesting using this already available data. Thus begun the project of 'Indian Heroes Quiz', with ChatGPT as a new assistant! Initial Data: Stories about Indian heroes in simple language Project: Create a simple online quiz game to create awareness about these heroes. Part 1 - The Quiz It all started by creating a rough design on paper about the possible UI of the quiz. Purpose was to keep the UI and Tech Stack simple.  The prompt was created with specific details and given to ChatGPT, which created fairly accurate version of the code. It's been many years since I have worked on Javascript, but it didn't take much time to understand and enhance the ...

  It has been more than 2 years now since we started working on Indian Heroes Calendar (IHC). After working on over 200+ stories for over a year, we had started 'Fun with Heroes' online sessions to tell stories about India's heroes to the young generation. After conducting sessions for a over a year, we decided to take a break. https://www.nimeshdesai.com/2020/12/indian-heroes-calendar-ihc-experience.html Recently, Sanskriti School reached out through its Parents Outreach program to conduct similar session for their students. We decided to cover four stories of heroes from different fields that would create interest in these students. Finally, the session was conducted as a part of the Children's Day celebrations on Nov 14, 2022. Students of classes 4, 5 and 6 attended this online session. We covered following stories: Jawaharlal Nehru Subedar Joginder Singh Dr Verghese Kurien Jamsetji Tata The sessions included Fun Q & A and even a Quiz (link below). Students showe...

As the 2020 comes to an end, I would like to share my experience of working on an initiative started this year. Inspiration As a parent, I would often tell stories to my son, and several times the stories would be of famous people based on my reading. Over the years, I came to know about many names from different sources, through different people, and realized that there are so many such stories we do not know about. There are names whose life can provide so much inspiration but are hardly known or forgotten in the layers of history. With this thought, I started to look around, collecting names of people wo helped shape India in last two centuries. Focus was mostly around freedom fighters, revolutionaries, scientists, armed forces, artists, poets, authors, and educationists. I was lucky to get guidance from Shri Arvind Gupta whose provided me his book ‘ Bright Sparks ’ that contained stories of India’s scientists. From Rachna Rawat’s ‘ The Brave ’, I got stories of Param Vir Chakra her...