First Telescope
Building up a hobby in Astronomy
Posted on October 3, 2020
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Curiosity I guess this would be common to most of us.
While I grew up, right from the childhood itself, the sky was always an intriguing view. The Stars, the Moon, the Eclipses; were all fascinating.
As a child, in my region, religion and culture; the mythology also built up stories around it. Lunar Eclipses have a story of its own. During Solar Eclipses, parents still insist that we do not go out.
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Apt Offline 1.8.2
Offline APT Package Manager
Posted on February 9, 2020
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
apt-offline 1.8.2 I am pleased to announce the release of apt-offline version 1.8.2
This release has many bug fixes along with a long standing issue of signature validation
2017 - The year of realization and change Back in 2017, the bug was reported that apt-offline did not validate apt meta Packages files. apt-offline was only doing a signature validation for the Release files but did no validation of the apt meta Packages files, which had their checksums listed in the Release files.
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Comments on Hugo with Isso
Enabling an independent self-hosting commenting system with Isso on Hugo
Posted on October 30, 2019
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Integrating Comments on Hugo with Isso Oh! Boy. Finally been able to get something set up almost to my liking. After moving away from Drupal to Hugo, getting the commenting system in place was challenging. There were many solutions but I was adamant to what I wanted.
Simple. Something very simple so that I can spend very limited time to tickle with (especially 2 years down the line) Independent. No Google/Facebook/3rd Party dependency Simple workflow.
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Setting a Lotus Pot
Experiences setting up a Lotus pot in my garden
Posted on October 5, 2019
(Last modified on October 12, 2019)
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| 1451 words
| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Experiences setting up a Lotus Pond Pot A novice’s first time experience setting up a Lotus pond and germinating the Lotus seeds to a full plant The trigger Our neighbors have a very nice Lotus setup in the front of their garden, with flowers blooming in it. It is really a pleasing experience to see it. With lifestyles limiting to specifics, I’m glad to be around with like minded people. So we decided to set up a Lotus Pond Pot in our garden too.
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Acidity and Hyperacidity
Posted on November 14, 2018
(Last modified on January 2, 2019)
| 5 minutes
| 1012 words
| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Acidity and Hyperacidity Acidity refers to the production of excessive hydrochloric acid from the gastric cells. Due to overproduction of the acid there is feeling of heartburn in the region of chest and a person may have sour eructation. There are different remedies available in the market for acidity and hyperacidity. Natural cure for acid reflux includes natural remedies that give quick relief from heartburn and sour eructation. It is easy to find acid reflux natural treatment.
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Adenitis
Posted on November 14, 2018
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Adenitis What is Adenitis? Adenitis refers to the inflammation of lymph glands present in our body. Lymph nodes are present everywhere in human body. The main symptoms of adenitis are pain and swelling. Adenoids of different body parts are given different names depending upon their location. Inflammation from one part may reach to other parts of the body. Mainly bacteria or virus is responsible for producing the infection. When inflammation is not diagnosed at an early stage it may further develop and grow into a tumour.
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Patanjali Research Foundation
Posted on May 20, 2017
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
PSA: Research in the domain of Ayurveda
http://www.patanjaliresearchfoundation.com/patanjali/
I am so glad to see this initiative taken by the Patanjali group. This is a great stepping stone in the health and wellness domain.
So far, Allopathy has been blunt in discarding alternate medicine practices, without much solid justification. The only, repetitive, response I’ve heard is “lack of research”. This initiative definitely is a great step in that regard.
Ayurveda (Ancient Hindu art of healing) has a huge potential to touch lives.
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Indian Economy
Posted on April 21, 2017
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
This has gotten me finally ask the question
All this time since my childhood, I grew up reading, hearing and watching that the core economy of India is Agriculture. And that it needs the highest bracket in the budgets of the country. It still applies today. Every budget has special waivers for the agriculture sector, typically in hundreds of thousands of crores in India Rupees. The most recent to mention is INR 27420 Crores waived off for just a single state (Uttar Pradesh), as was promised by the winning party during their campaign.
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Ulcerative Colitis
Posted on February 25, 2017
(Last modified on November 14, 2018)
| 6 minutes
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Ulcerative colitis is a disease that affects the intestines. There is inflammation of the colon and rectum. The main cause of ulcerative colitis may be recurrent infections. Bacteria or virus is the most important cause of ulcerative colitis. It may result due to infection in other parts of the body. It is a chronic disease. It usually occurs during the young age. There are small ulcers present in the colon or rectum.
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Ayurveda
Posted on February 25, 2017
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
To quote the 1st Google result:
the traditional Hindu system of medicine (incorporated in Atharva Veda, the last of the four Vedas), which is based on the idea of balance in bodily systems and uses diet, herbal treatment, and yogic breathing. To quote WIkipedia:
_Ayurveda_ names three elemental substances, the doshas (called Vata, Pitta and Kapha), and states that a balance of the doshas results in health, while imbalance results in disease.
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