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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Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
This is the podcast of the interview broadcast on All India Radio, Pune on 3 March 2022. The interview in Hindi was conducted and recorded by Shri M.J. Patel of All India Radio.In this interview Dr. Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) discusses his life's work and journey at Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute, Phaltan (www.nariphaltan.org) and which led him to get the Padma Shri Award from Government of India.This podcast is a part of two part AIR broadcast about the life and work of Anil Rajvanshi. The second part is: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/anilrajvanshi/episodes/2022-04-22T21_23_01-07_00
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
This is the podcast (in Hindi) based on the interview of Anil K. Rajvanshi conducted by DJ Daksh for Radio City 91.1 FM. The occasion was National Science Day. Dr. Rajvanshi was interviewed regarding his views on how to make science attractive for children and young students.
Thursday Feb 17, 2022
Thursday Feb 17, 2022
This is the podcast of TV interview (in Hindi) of Dr. Anil Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) given to a Door Darshan (DD) TV station.Dr. Rajvanshi discusses the history and evolution of some of the main R&D work done at NARI starting in 1981.The interview was taken after Dr. Rajvanshi was selected for Padma Shri Award.
Monday Feb 07, 2022
Monday Feb 07, 2022
This is the podcast of the interview of Anil K Rajvanshi conducted by All India Radio, Nasik on 27th January 2022. The occasion was the announcement of Padma Shri Award ( https://www.padmaawards.gov.in/padmaawardees2022.pdf) by the Government of India.Padma awards are the highest civilian awards given every year. Dr. Anil Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) received this year Padma Shri. The interview charts the journey of Anil Rajvanshi for the last 40 years.Since this was the phone interview hence the quality of sound is not studio quality.
Thursday Feb 03, 2022
Thursday Feb 03, 2022
This is the podcast of full interview of Anil Rajvanshi by IIT Kanpur DORA staff members after he was awarded Padma Shri by Govt. of India (https://www.padmaawards.gov.in/padmaawardees2022.pdf). Padma awards are the highest civilian awards given by GOI every year.Anil Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) is a graduate of IIT Kanpur and did his B Tech and MTech in Mechanical Engineering in 1972 and 1974 respectively.The edited video uploaded by IIT Kanpur is here. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNpaNwmGWxc)The interview was conducted on 27th January by Gauri Sharma and assisted by Komal.
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
This podcast is about what made Dr. Anil Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) write his fifth book: "Exploring the Mind of God - How Technology guided by Spirituality can produce Happiness".The URL of this talk is at: https://nariphaltan.org/bookpodcast.pdfI hope the people who will listen to this podcast will be inspired to read the book.
Saturday Dec 11, 2021
Saturday Dec 11, 2021
All of us sometime or the other have experienced the Eureka moments or insights where suddenly the solution to a long-vexed problem emerges in a flash. Such eureka moments or sudden insights have been the basis of some of the greatest discoveries of this world.So curiosity arose how the brain produces such moments and insights and what is the neurobiological basis of it.The details with links are given in this article: https://nariphaltan.org/eureka.pdf
Saturday Dec 04, 2021
Saturday Dec 04, 2021
In this podcast Dr. Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) talks about how spirituality gives us wisdom to use technology properly and also help us live sustainably. There is tremendous turmoil in the world.I believe it has to do with the tremendous insecurity that mankind faces. Increased population pressures, stress of daily life, increased expectations fueled by social media together with the need for instant gratification add to this insecurity. This, in turn, fuels the greed impulse and for some who have power and resources, this impulse is enhanced.One of the best ways to reduce greed and insecurity is by practicing spirituality. Greed is an outcome of the desire to possess. It is a part of the evolutionary process, and every human being wants to have resources for distressed times. In the absence of wisdom, this degenerates into hoarding impulse and greed. By practicing spirituality one can get the wisdom to understand that we should use things for our needs and not for our greed as Mahatma Gandhi once said.Read more at: https://nariphaltan.org/worldspirituality.pdf
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Patanjali Yoga sutras, written almost 2500 years ago, are the earliest treatise on Yoga. In the book Sage Patanjali enunciates in a scientific manner how to control thought – a process which makes the mind powerful enough so that when it focuses on any subject its complete knowledge results.In this broadcast Dr. Rajvanshi shows the deep science of sutras and how they match what has been discovered now by science. It is really uncanny that Patanjali wrote about all these almost 2500 years ago.The URL of this talk is: https://nariphaltan.org/patanjaliscience.pdfAnd a YouTube lecture is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud9bL68TRbI
Saturday Nov 13, 2021
Saturday Nov 13, 2021
This is the broadcast of All India Radio interview given by Dr. Anil Rajvanshi on 13 November 2021. In this broadcast Dr. Rajvanshi discusses the challenges thrown by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in COP26 meeting and possible way we in India can meet them.He feels that the vision shown by Prime Minister is a doable goal provided we set in motion huge program in human resource development, reduction of our energy needs and out of box thinking in developing renewable energy resource technologies based on biomimicry.He also feels that this goal can be met by practicing the mantra of Spirituality + Technology = Happiness (https://nariphaltan.org/spiritech.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.