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

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

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

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

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

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.

Thursday Oct 13, 2022

This is the audio of the talk that Dr. Anil Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) gave at Pune International Center on 1st October 2022.The talk was on Dr. Rajvanshi's latest book Ëxploring the Mind of God - How Technology Guided by Spirituality can produce Happiness". The book is available at Amazon and other book stores.The video of the talk is available at YouTube.

Wednesday Sep 28, 2022

This is an audio of Institute lecture that Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) gave at IIT Kanpur in September 2022. The title of the talk was Nation Building, Junoon and Happiness.The YouTube video of the lecture is available at. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w83mc6cdygThe talk focused on how bright students of IIT Kanpur (IITK) can help light up the lives of the rural population and in the process help in Nation Building. By doing so they will contribute to the betterment of society. The talk showed how giving back to society produces happiness.Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi an alumnus of IITK talked about his journey from IITK to USA and to rural India and what inspired him to do so and the junoon and forces which shaped his life. The talk also touched upon the challenges facing rural India and how high tech solutions from bright minds in IITK might be able to overcome them.

Wednesday Aug 24, 2022

This is the audio of the keynote address that Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) gave to the incoming freshmen class of NICMAR University in Pune. The talk was delivered on 16th August 2022.Around 750 students and faculty gave a standing ovation after the lecture.The YouTube lecture is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH7WkcRokQw

Saturday Aug 13, 2022

As India approaches 75th year of Independence (Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav) Dr. Anil Rajvanshi talks about the need to remember all the leaders and unsung heroes who took part in the movement. He thinks that the proper account of the history should be presented to the children so that they should feel proud of our heritage.

Saturday Aug 13, 2022

In this talk Dr. Anil Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) discusses a possible mechanism about why we have a desire to reproduce. All the theories talk about Darwin's theory of evolution but why is their a desire to reproduce and evolve? Interesting ideas on it are put forth based on Big Bang and Patanjali Yoga theories.

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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.

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