Anil K Rajvanshi
This is the podcast of Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf). He is currently the Director and Hon. Secretary of Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) (https://nariphaltan.org). He has more than 43 years of experience in renewable energy R&D and rural development. He did his B.Tech and M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from I.I.T. Kanpur in 1972 and 1974 respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Mech. Engg. from University of Florida, Gainesville, USA in 1979. He was also on the faculty of University of Florida (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering) for 2.5 years before returning to India in 1981 to work at NARI. Anil Rajvanshi is a spiritual engineer! A mechanical engineering graduate of IIT Kanpur in early 1970s he went to U.S. for higher studies. In a fit of madness and arrogance, he left a very lucrative career in U.S. and came back in 1981 to rural India thinking that he will change India! India did not change but he changed. In the process of developing renewable energy technologies for rural areas he discovered himself and the great spiritual traditions of India. He runs a small rural NGO called Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute in Phaltan, Maharashtra and has a passion of writing articles on spirituality and rural development. His articles have been published in Times of India (Speaking Tree); Huffington Post and Thrive Global, South Asia Monitor and syndicated in various other News lines. He has 5 books to his credit and has written more than 250 articles on rural and sustainable development including the interface of spirituality and technology. He is passionate about teaching youngsters and gives inspirational lectures all over India and some abroad. His mantra is Spirituality + Technology = Happiness and lives in a simple and holistic way in rural India.
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Sunday Mar 29, 2020
Sunday Mar 29, 2020
Sir Isaac Newton was one of the greatest scientist of all times. 31st March is his death anniversary. This podcast is a small tribute to this great scientist. The URL of podcast is at: https://nariphaltan.org/newton.pdf
Sunday Mar 29, 2020
Sunday Mar 29, 2020
In this podcast Dr. Anil Rajvanshi explains how by living sustainably we can improve our immune system and can help in fighting Corona type viruses effectively in the future. The URL of this talk is at; https://nariphaltan.org/corona.pdf
Saturday Feb 01, 2020
Saturday Feb 01, 2020
In this episode Anil K Rajvanshi was interviewed by All India Radio, Nashik on his thoughts about Mahatma Gandhi; his science, technology and sustainable development. Dr. Rajvanshi discussed that Gandhi was not an anti-technology or anti science but an engineer!As a great yogi mahatma Gandhi lived a very simple and sustainable life and it is this aspect of his that is as relevant today as was almost 100 years ago when he enunciated his thoughts on sustainable development.
Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
All of us who believe in India’s story and have strong attachment to thisancient land of ours, want to see a prosperous and happy India. Each one ofus have a dream of how India should develop and progress. Just as JawaharLal Nehru our first prime minister had said at the time of gettingindependence that he had to solve 300 million problems (the population ofIndia at that time); similarly each one of us may have thought about “Indiaof my dreams”, though majority of us do not express it.I feel a new thought and paradigm of development based upon the idea thatspirituality with technology produces happiness should be added to it.Technology allows us to take care of our basic and daily needs andspirituality gives us wisdom to use technology judiciously and for our needsand not for our greed. This can lead to sustainable development and happiness for citizens of India and is the basis of “India of my dreams”!The URL of this podcast is at: https://nariphaltan.org/indiaofmydreams.pdf
Saturday Jan 11, 2020
Saturday Jan 11, 2020
This is a 5 minutes talk of Dr. Anil Rajvanshi broadcast by All India Radio via 62 channels all over India on 10th January 2019. Here Dr. Rajvanshi sheds light on Gandhi ji's innovative streak. He was a tinkerer and engineer. He was not anti science or anti technology as people claim. The interview was conducted by AIR Nasik.
Thursday Oct 24, 2019
Thursday Oct 24, 2019
Since time immemorial mankind has always dreamt of getting out of earth’s gravity field and reaching the stars. But this travel requires huge amount of energy and resources and with the present level of our technology we have only been able to go into near-earth orbits and few times to the moon and Mars. Till we have a major breakthrough in jet propulsion technology and materials, we will remain earth-bound.However a simpler and energy wise cheaper method than spaceship travel is to go into space via the soul route!In this podcast Dr. Anil Rajvanshi tries to use the quantum physics concept of tunneling to show how the soul or Atman can get out of the earth's gravity field. The transcript of this talk is at: https://nariphaltan.org/nirvanaandgravity.pdf
Friday Sep 27, 2019
Friday Sep 27, 2019
This podcast is a talk given by Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi at MIT, Pune, on 3rd October 2019. The occasion was an International Conference on Religion, Spirituality and Philosophy. There were various themes in this conference and this talk was given in the theme entitled " Need to Transform Universities into true centers of Research, Innovation, Scientifically Oriented Knowledge, Wisdom, and Holistic Human Development". The transcript of this talk is at; https://nariphaltan.org/mitpune2019.pdf
Friday Sep 20, 2019
Friday Sep 20, 2019
This is a podcast of a public lecture given by Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi at Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi on 6th September 2019.In this podcast, he shows why high tech solutions are needed for rural development and shows the work that has been done in NARI in the areas of agriculture, renewable energy, and animal husbandry.The video on this lecture is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJBsTTt_dTU
Thursday Sep 19, 2019
Thursday Sep 19, 2019
This podcast is a public lecture given by Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) on 7 September 2019. Dr. Rajvanshi has been giving inspirational lectures to students all over India and he has always felt that what they need to be taught is Ethics of Work. This is his first lecture on this subject. The video on this lecture is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcCgHYs4EPY
Wednesday Jul 10, 2019
Wednesday Jul 10, 2019
In this podcast Dr. Anil Rajvanshi talks about Mahatma Gandhi's message that the change should start from us. He discusses that when we change ourselves for good then the world around us will change. The talk is also available at; https://nariphaltan.org/changetheworld.pdf
Anil Rajvanshi
This is a podcast of Anil Rajvanshi. Most of these will be on the interplay of technology and spirituality. This is the theme of his work.