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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Episodes
Monday May 13, 2019
Monday May 13, 2019
In this podcast, Dr. Rajvanshi talks about his visit to Australia in 2008 with his wife Dr. Nandini Nimbkar to attend the 7th international conference on safflower. They visited Cairns, Sydney and Wagga Wagga. Transcript to this podcast is available at https://nariphaltan.org/australia.pdf
Monday May 13, 2019
Monday May 13, 2019
In this podcast, Dr. Rajvanshi talks about his visit to Spain in 2008 with his wife Dr. Nandini Nimbkar. Transcript of this podcast is available at https://nariphaltan.org/spain.pdf
Monday May 13, 2019
Monday May 13, 2019
In this podcast, Dr. Rajvanshi talks about his experience from his visit to Beijing in 2007 at the invitation of the Office of National Energy Leading Group (ONELG). transcript of this podcast is available at https://nariphaltan.org/beijingdiary.pdf
Monday May 13, 2019
Monday May 13, 2019
In this podcast, Dr. Rajvanshi talks about Char Dham yatra he and his family did in 1997. Char Dham yatra is a religious yatra to four main religious centers in India called Dham, which are Jamnotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath. Transcript for this podcast is available at : https://nariphaltan.org/kedarnath.pdf
Monday May 06, 2019
Monday May 06, 2019
Alzheimer’s disease is a disease of the brain where clumps of misfolded protein fragments called amyloid-beta produce plaques around synapses – the connecting point between neurons. These plaques stop neurons from communicating, thus destroying memory. Nobody knows how these plaques are formed and the world over research is being conducted on how to remove them. In this podcast, Dr. Rajvanshi talks about a possible solution for reducing the risk of alzheimer's with the help of some ancient Indian system of meditation and chanting Sanskrit shlokas
Monday May 06, 2019
Monday May 06, 2019
Through ages, mankind has been intrigued by theory of reincarnation. Various theories have been provided in all civilizations but most have been silent on what passes from body to body during reincarnation. In this podcast, Dr. Rajvanshi gives an interesting insight regarding the process of reincarnation using the help cloud computing technology. Transcript to this podcast is available at : https://nariphaltan.org/cloudcomputing.htm
Monday May 06, 2019
Monday May 06, 2019
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister and one of the main architects of Independent India. In this podcast, Dr. Rajvanshi talks about some rare anecdotes related to Pandit Nehru which he heard about him from some of his close associates. Since 2014 was 125th anniversary of Nehru's birth, Dr. Rajvanshi thought of narrating these anecdotes The transcript of this podcast is available at: https://nariphaltan.org/nehru.pdf
Friday Apr 26, 2019
Friday Apr 26, 2019
Walking is like meditation. It helps us to focus the mind on a subject. A lot of people go for walks in the park both in the morning and evening either alone or with various friends, family, and acquaintances. In this podcast, Dr. Rajvanshi talks about the art of walking and how long walks alone and without any company are the best to think and contemplate various issues. Transcript to this podcast is available at https://nariphaltan.org/longwalk.htm
Friday Apr 26, 2019
Friday Apr 26, 2019
In this podcast, Dr. Rajvanshi talks about his experience of attending the 3rd world Congress of Vedic science held in Pune in 2018. Based on his observations in the conference he wrote an essay on why we Indians have this fascination with Vedas. This podcast is about what are the scientific issues in Vedas and Dr. Rajvanshi shows that though the fascination is fine but we should know the limitations of the so called knowledge in these scriptures. Th transcript of this podcast is available at https://nariphaltan.org/vs.pdf
Friday Apr 26, 2019
Friday Apr 26, 2019
In every religion getting into Mayajal or web of love is frowned upon. They all insist that renunciation, the breaking of bonds, etc., frees the soul for ultimate salvation and liberation. We should realize that this planet earth is our permanent home and is all that we have and this is both heaven and . In This podcast, Dr. Rajvanshi talks about a web of love of this planet, of which we all are part of and there is nowhere else to go. If we take this view then we will change our thinking so that we do everything in our power to make this planet a very pleasant place to live. The transcript of this podcast can be found at :https://nariphaltan.org/weboflove.htm
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.