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Possibility of Creating Zero-Cost Bhagavad Gita AI Knowledge Base using Google NotebookLM

Note: Message composed with help of Gemini. A friend had asked me in the past about a Bhagavad Gita AI app. We also saw that one public (and well-known) Bhagavad Gita AI app is no longer working, which I suspected to be due to subscription/hosting costs for the AI. I wrote to him to share my recent exposure to the possibility of a high-tech yet zero-cost way to create a Bhagavad Gita AI chat facility. This is based on my creation of an AI knowledge base from a set of 17 of my blog posts on the topic of static school website development using Google NotebookLM. As this may be of interest to others, I am putting up this post. The AI-Powered Gita Research Lab Using Google’s NotebookLM, which readers may already be aware of, you can create a sophisticated knowledge base. Once the Bhagavad Gita source material—including Sanskrit verses, transliterations, translation, and commentary by a single author in English (to stay within the limits of the free tier for sources)—is uploaded as sour...

Notes on Blogger posts to NotebookLM pipeline and using it for static school website blog posts

Quick Info This post is about: Creation of a Blogger posts to Google NotebookLM pipeline using Google Colab and Google Apps Script. The private code links are: Google Colab notebook GitHub repo  having readme doc, example input file, copy of Colab notebook (.ipynb file). HTMLtoGDocBatch Google Apps Script project Using above pipeline to create a private NotebookLM Notebook Static School Website Dev  whose sources are these blog posts of mine: Blog posts timeline of static school landing page website work done off-and-on from mid Jan 2026 to Feb 2026 blog post as well as the other blog posts of this blog mentioned in its timeline. School website UI/UX examples  blog post. Exchanges with Gemini about this work. Details 16 Mar 2026 I started this work with test runs of 1 blog post and later 2 blog posts. After this got stabilized, I did a live run with 17 blog posts mentioned above related to static school website development. Overview Notes Created private repo for the wo...

School website UI/UX examples

From: Notes on creating a simple static school landing page site using my Astro template   Best School Websites of 2026 – Learn From These Top School Web Design Examples, https://morweb.org/post/best-school-websites Also has "Free High-Quality School Images" links. https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/group-of-indian-village-students-in-school-uniform-sitting-in-classroom-doing-gm2075583750-564868460 is good but it is not free (Rs.345). Google Search: rural india school website https://www.ishavidhya.in/#/pages/index https://www.rios.ac.in/ https://indiarise.net/ My simple static school landing page site: https://ravisiyer.github.io/ssw-astroghp/ =================== From: Building Test Static School Website: ... Using ThemeWagon Si-Education Next.js Template - Part 2  Live Education Website (Static Site on GitHub Pages)  https://ravisiyer.github.io/testschoolwspub ============ From: Design of mainly static Next.js school website with free hosting that can evolve into dynami...

Blog posts timeline of static school landing page website work done off-and-on from mid Jan 2026 to Feb 2026

The blog posts timeline is chronological. Summary Blog Posts Timeline Summary: Static School Landing Page Website Development (Jan – Feb 2026 off-and-on) Design of mainly static Next.js school website with free hosting that can evolve into dynamic full-stack web application (paid hosting) (Created: Jan 17, 2026 | LU: Jan 19, 2026) Outlines a pragmatic design using Next.js on GitHub Pages with a zero-hosting-cost model for small schools. Building Test Static School Website: Next.js static export vs Plain React, Using ThemeWagon Si-Education Next.js Template - Part 1 (Created: Jan 17, 2026 | LU: Feb 8, 2026) Initial experiments with trimming an educational Tailwind CSS template to create a minimal mentor site. Creating proprietary modifications to MIT license ThemeWagon Si-Education Next.js Template Source Code (Created: Jan 19, 2026 | LU: Feb 8, 2026) Technical discussion on modifying licensed templates and the implications for individual customer licensing. Building Test S...