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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Friday Jun 16, 2023
Friday Jun 16, 2023
This is a podcast by Anil K Rajvanshi in which he has shown how Patanjali's sutras mirror the knowledge of modern science and technology. According to him Patanjali was a true scientist who gave the first knowledge about the control of thought and mind and about universal laws governing time and space. Unfortunately till now none of the commentaries on Yoga Sutras have explored them through the lens of science. He feels this podcast will help overcome that lacunae. It is really remarkable that in his Sutras Patanjali talks about Universe, space-time continuum, movement of planets among others and this was much before the time of Copernicus, Plato, Socrates, Newton and Einstein. Rajvanshi says that Sage Patanjali has been his teacher. Whatever little he has written in the last 20 years on spirituality or thought about the interaction of mind-matter and higher things have been inspired by Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and feels that his spirit has guided him in this journey. The article on which this podcast is based is at: https://nariphaltan.org/sutrascience.pdf
Saturday Jun 03, 2023
Saturday Jun 03, 2023
This is the inaugural talk that Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi gave at Techkriti 23 at IIT Kanpur in March 2023.Dr. Rajvanshi talks about the challenges of providing high technology in rural areas and how with technology we can improve the quality of life of rural population and in the process show the world a new paradigm of development. Dr. Rajvanshi also talked how spirituality + Technology could be new paradigm of development.
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
This podcast is about discovering the deep science in Patanjali Yoga Sutras. Dr. Anil Rajvanshi talks about how Sutras match the modern science and technology. He has given various examples of different sutras having uncanny resemblances with Einstein's gravitation theory and how some sutras show that Patanjali knew the details of human body.The talk is based on the Dr. Rajvanshi"s article "Understanding the Science of Patanjali Yoga Sutras". https://nariphaltan.org/sutrascience.pdf Please follow the links in this article to understand the deep science embedded in these sutras.I will be delighted to hear back from the listeners. anilrajvanshi50@gmail.com
Saturday Mar 11, 2023
Saturday Mar 11, 2023
This is a podcast of National Science Day public lecture delivered in Delhi by Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi on 28th Februray 2023. The lecture was organized by Indian National Academy of Science (INSA) and INYAS. The video of this lecture is here.The lecture was well received and there was a lively question answer session after the lecture.In this lecture Dr. Rajvanshi tried to inspire the young audience to follow science so that they can make India a great Nation.
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
This is the recording of Dr. Anil Rajvanshi's interview (in Hindi) on Gandhiji on 30th January 2023. The interview was broadcast by All India Radio, Nasik and was carried by all stations in Maharashtra.
Friday Feb 03, 2023
Friday Feb 03, 2023
This is a podcast of presentation made by Dr. Anil Rajvanshi, Padma Shri Awardee of 2022 on his work at NARI to Members of Parliament. He together with 18 other Padma Awardees was invited by the Speaker of Lok Sabha, Shri Om Birla ji to present their work on 27th January 2023 in PRIDE Secretariat. The presentation transcript is at this site and the webcast is here.
Saturday Jan 07, 2023
Saturday Jan 07, 2023
This podcast is about how to keep your sinuses clean by the Yogic method of Neti. Clean sinuses help you remain healthy and also help in humming. Humming is an enjoyable and is good for body and mind.Dr. Rajvanshi shows scientifically how humming helps in vagus nerve stimulation for healthy body and mind.The transcript of this podcast is at. How Sinuses Help in Humming. This article was published in South Asia Monitor on 6 January 2023.
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
For becoming an Atmanirbhar Bharat India needs excellent engineers. However the present education in undergraduate level is simply geared to passing exams which are unrelated to real life situation. The higher education for M.Tech and Ph.D. is even in worst situation with students working in theoretical problems. Essentially they become applied mathematicians.Some possible solutions are proposed in this talk. Suggestions from listeners are most welcome.The URL of this essay is: https://www.southasiamonitor.org/open-forum/where-are-engineers-who-will-build-india
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
The COP conferences are really a sham and a show of hypocritical behavior which brings out the real face of the selfish and the control freaks of the world. In the recently concluded COP 27 the much touted creation of loss and damage fund was nothing but hot air. With no details about who will provide money for the fund and which country will get how much this remains only platitudes. The tycoons, heads of states and big industry leaders fly in their expensive personal jets and stay in total luxury in the resort places which are the venues of the conferences. There were reports that about 400 private jets landed in Egypt carrying the delegates! The amount of energy use and carbon dioxide production by these events is enormous and all the trappings of unsustainable lifestyle are on display by people who are talking and preaching about sustainable lifestyle!Dr. Anil Rajvanshi has given suggestions on how to make them productive and what should be done to help go on the path to sustainability.
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
In this podcast Dr. Anil Rajvanshi talks about the neurobiological basis of fear, how it is formed and possible ways to overcome it and reduce it.If we can reduce it then we can do wonderful things. History of world is history of fearless people who charted new paths and developed new thoughts, inventions and innovations.
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.