YUNOVA Stories
People who built their skillsजिन लोगों ने अपने skill खुद बनाए
True stories of people who built a skill step by step, written from public sources, and where you can start on the same skill for free.ऐसे लोगों की सच्ची कहानियाँ जिन्होंने कदम-दर-कदम एक skill सीखा, public sources से लिखी हुई, और वह जगह जहाँ आप वही skill free में शुरू कर सकते हैं।
Money & FinanceAmartya Sen: from Santiniketan to the Nobel, economics for human welfare
Amartya Sen · Economist and philosopher, 1998 Nobel laureate in economic sciencesAmartya Sen was born on a university campus in Santiniketan in 1933 and, by his own account, has lived on one campus or another ever since. A famine he saw as a boy and questions he argued over as a student in Calcutta became the work of his life. In 1998 he received the Nobel prize in economic sciences for his contributions to welfare economics. His story shows economics as a tool for understanding how people actually live.Read story →
Data & AIAndrew Ng: the professor who put machine learning online for everyone
Andrew Ng · Co-founder of Coursera and founding lead of Google BrainFor years, machine learning was taught to a few hundred students at a time in top universities. Then, in 2011, Stanford professor Andrew Ng put his class online for free and more than 100,000 people signed up. That experiment grew into Coursera, and Ng went on to lead AI work at Google and Baidu. His story shows how patient, step-by-step teaching can open a hard subject to the whole world.Read story →
TechnologyAndy Jassy: the marketing manager who built Amazon Web Services
Andy Jassy · Founding leader of Amazon Web Services and Amazon's CEOWhen you launch a server or store a file on AWS, you are using a business that Andy Jassy helped imagine and then led for well over a decade. He did not start as an engineer. He joined Amazon in 1997 with a background in marketing and business, learned the company from the inside, and turned an idea about sharing Amazon's own infrastructure into a cloud platform used by more than a million customers.Read story →
Personal DevelopmentB. R. Ambedkar: the scholar who chaired the drafting of India's Constitution
B. R. Ambedkar · Jurist, economist, social reformer and chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution of IndiaBhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born into a community that the society of his time treated as untouchable. He was kept apart in school, yet he went on to earn degrees from Columbia University and the London School of Economics, qualify as a barrister, and chair the committee that drafted the Constitution of India. His story shows how far careful, patient study can carry a person, and why the text he helped write is worth reading closely.Read story →
Design & CreativeDon Norman: the scientist who said bad design is not your fault
Don Norman · Cognitive scientist and author of The Design of Everyday ThingsHave you ever pushed a door that needed a pull, or pressed the wrong button on a remote, and felt foolish? Don Norman spent his career arguing that the fault was not yours. An electrical engineer who became a cognitive scientist, he wrote The Design of Everyday Things, helped found the field of user-centred design and, at Apple, held the first job title to use the words User Experience. His story shows that good design starts with understanding how people think.Read story →
TechnologyDonald Knuth: the patient scholar who wrote the book on algorithms
Donald Knuth · Author of The Art of Computer Programming and creator of TeXWhen you study how fast a sorting method runs or why one search beats another, you are standing on ground that Donald Knuth helped lay. A mathematics student who fell for an early IBM computer, he spent decades writing The Art of Computer Programming, a series that treats algorithms with the care of a scientist. Along the way he built TeX, won the Turing Award, and showed that slow, deep study is a real strategy.Read story →
Business & ProductivityE. Sreedharan: the Metro Man who finished on time
E. Sreedharan · Civil engineer known as India's Metro ManIn India, big public projects are often expected to run late and over budget. E. Sreedharan became famous for doing the opposite. From a cyclone-wrecked bridge in Tamil Nadu to the Konkan Railway and the Delhi Metro, he delivered difficult projects on schedule and kept his teams disciplined and honest. His story is one of the clearest examples in India of what good project management looks like in practice.Read story →
StudyFali S. Nariman: seven decades of reading, argument and principle
Fali S. Nariman · Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India and constitutional juristFali Sam Nariman began practising law in Bombay in 1950, the year India's Constitution came into force, and was still writing about it in 2023. In between he argued some of the most important constitutional cases the Supreme Court has heard, resigned a high government post on principle, and read widely all his life. For anyone preparing for CLAT, his career shows what a lifetime of careful reading and clear argument can build.Read story →
Data & AIGeoffrey Hinton: the scientist who kept faith in neural networks
Geoffrey Hinton · Computer scientist and pioneer of deep learningFor much of his career, Geoffrey Hinton worked on an idea that most of the field had given up on: that computers could learn the way networks of brain cells do. He kept going through the decades when neural networks were unfashionable, and with his students he helped spark the deep learning boom behind today's image recognition and chatbots. His story is about patience, curiosity and the value of building on solid foundations.Read story →
Language & CommunicationGulzar: from a Mumbai garage to the Jnanpith Award
Gulzar · Urdu poet, lyricist and film directorGulzar was a teenager doing odd jobs in Bombay when he was writing couplets in his spare time. Over more than seven decades he became one of the best-known Urdu poets of his era, a lyricist for Hindi cinema, a film director, and in 2024 a winner of India's highest literary honour, the Jnanpith Award. His story shows how a love of language, fed every day, can grow into a life's work.Read story →
Data & AIHans Rosling: the doctor who made data tell the truth
Hans Rosling · Swedish doctor, professor of global health and co-founder of GapminderHans Rosling was a Swedish doctor who became one of the world's best-loved teachers of data. He used moving charts, toy bricks and even teacups to show how health, wealth and population were really changing across countries. He never claimed numbers were magic. He claimed they were the only honest starting point for a good argument. His story shows that data analysis is not about software. It is about seeing clearly and explaining clearly.Read story →
TechnologyJames Gosling: the Canadian engineer who created Java
James Gosling · Designer of the Java programming languageEvery Java program you write is compiled for a virtual machine, so the same code can run on many different computers. That idea grew out of the work of James Gosling, a computer scientist from Calgary who did the original design of the Java language at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. His story shows how years of building tools, editors and compilers prepared him to create one of the most widely used languages in the world.Read story →