Ep 381: V Vinay Has Lived a Life of Science

He created the iconic Simputer, and has lived a life that married science and its applications. V Vinay joins Amit Varma in episode 381 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about his journey and what it taught him.

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Also check out:
1. V Vinay on Twitter, LinkedIn, IISC and Google Scholar.
2. The UNIX Episode -- Episode 32 of Everything is Everything.
3. Calculus Made Simple -- H Mulholland.
4. India vs West Indies, 1st Test, Bengaluru, November 22 – 27, 1974.
5. Ram Guha Writes a Letter to a Friend -- Episode 371 of The Seen and the Unseen.
6. A Text-book Of Inorganic Chemistry -- JR Partington.
7. Perkin and Kipping's Organic Chemistry -- Stanley F Kipping and Barry Kipping.
8. There's no speed limit — Derek Sivers.
9. The Botany of Desire -- Michael Pollan.
10. Vishwa Bandhu Gupta on cloud computing & more!
11. Design & Analysis of Computer Algorithms -- Alfred V Aho, John E Hopcroft and Jeffrey D Ullman.
12. A Circuit-Based Proof of Toda′ s Theorem -- Ravi Kannan, H Venkateswaran, V Vinay and Andrew C Yao.
13. Ramesh Hariharan's website.
14. The Little Prince -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
15. Bruce Sterling on the Simputer in the New York Times.
16. Rahul Matthan Seeks the Protocol — Episode 360 of The Seen and the Unseen.
17. James Hadley Chase, Alistair Maclean, Desmond Bagley and Agatha Christie on Amazon.
18. Illusions -- Richard Bach.
19. Jonathan Livingston Seagull -- Richard Bach.
20. Lila -- Robert M Pirsig.
21. The True Believer -- Eric Hoffer.
22. Crime and Punishment -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
23. The Idiot -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
24. Leo Tolstoy's short stories.
25. Essays -- Ralh Waldo Emerson.
26. The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
27. Self-Reliance -- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
28. Walden --  Henry David Thoreau.
29. Vinaya Pitaka.
30. Isha Upanishad.
31. Atoms in Motion -- Richard Feynman.
32. Mandukya Upanishad.
33. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.
34. The Matrix -- The Wachowskis.
35. Chanakya -- Chandraprakash Dwivedi.
36. Chomana Dudi -- BV Karanth.
37. Akira Kurosawa and Yasujirō Ozu.
38. Tokyo Story -- Yasujirō Ozu.
39. Departures -- Yôjirô Takita.
40. The Silence of the Lambs -- Jonathan Demme.
41. Notorious -- Alfred Hitchcock.
42. Mr Smith Goes to Washington -- Frank Capra.
43. The Philadelphia Story -- George Cukor.
44. Bringing Up Baby -- Howard Hawks.
45. Casablanca -- Michael Curtiz.
46. Gandhi -- Richard Attenborough.
47. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring -- Kim Ki-duk.
48. Bicycle Thieves -- Vittorio De Sica.
49. Ilaiyaraaja, TM Krishna and MS Subbulakshmi on Spotify.
50. Twenty-Five Twenty-One -- Jung Ji-hyun.
51. Misaeng --  Kim Won-seok.
52. My Ahjusshi -- Kim Won-seok.
53. Succession, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones and House.

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Episode art: 'Searching for Truth' by Simahina.