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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Monday Jun 20, 2022
Monday Jun 20, 2022
This is the podcast of the talk that Dr. Anil Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) gave at the Annual TAAP convention held in Mumbai on 8th June 2022. The talk was organized by Tata Group. The Chairman of Tata Group Mr. Chandrasekaran together with Tata Sons board members and about 35-40 CEOs of the major Tata Companies like TCS, Tata Motors, Rallis India, Air Asia, etc. together with the CSR heads of major Tata Companies were in the audience. Thus around 180 members of Tata Group were in my talk. My speech was entitled “Role of Corporates in Bringing Social Transformation” and it was well received judging by the enthusiastic response of the participants. All the 180 participants were also given a copy of my book “Romance of Innovation”. The speech together with a few photographs of the event is available at https://nariphaltan.org/tatatalk.pdf I do hope that other corporate houses may follow the suggestions given in the speech for making a better and inclusive India.
Friday May 06, 2022
Friday May 06, 2022
This is the podcast of the TEDx talk that Dr. Anil Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) gave at MNNIT, Prayagraj on 9th April 2022.The transcript of talk is available at; https://nariphaltan.org/tedtalk.pdf
Saturday Apr 23, 2022
Saturday Apr 23, 2022
This is the podcast (in Hindi) of All India Radio interview of Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi conducted by Shri Sachin Prabhune of AIR, Satara on 20th April 2022.The broadcast was done firstly from Satara station on 26th April and nationwide broadcast on 22nd May 2022.This broadcast forms a two part series on the life and work of Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf). The first part is available at; https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/anilrajvanshi/episodes/2022-03-03T03_52_54-08_00
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
This is an inspirational talk given to students and faculty of IIM, Lucknow on 1st March 2022. The original talk was in video format.In this talk Dr. Rajvanshi traces his journey from Lucknow to Phaltan and discusses what made him leave a lucrative career in USA and choose rural Maharashtra to do his work. He tells in short the work done in NARI.Dr. Rajvanshi also discusses how to develop a mindset to do this type of work for rural development.
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.
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.