Anil K Rajvanshi

This is the podcast of Dr. Anil Rajvanshi interview in English/Hindi on Khulke.com a platform to engage youth in a meaningful dialogue on various issues of the country. Dr. Rajvanshi was interviewed on 27th December by Nancy Narang - a talented and dynamic moderator of Khulke. The interview covered topics like how to motivate students to stay in India; what made Anil Rajvanshi come back to India; what are the challenges that Anil faced while working in rural India and what message Anil has for the youth of today.

This is the podcast of the Institute Lecture given by Dr. Anil Rajvanshi at IIT Bombay on 4th December 2023. The lecture was titled: Innovative Water Technologies - Possibilities for Rural Applications. The introduction was by Dr. Shobha Shukla. The lecture was organized in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Water Technologies organized by IIT Bombay. Dr. Anil Rajvanshi also gave the inaugural address at the conference. The conference was organized by Dr. Shobha Shukla and Dr. Sumit Saxena.

This is a podcast of the Institute lecture on Deep Science in Patanjali Yoga Sutras given by Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi in 9th November 2023 at IIT Kanpur.The video of the lecture is available here.The lecture is based on the booklet on Patanjali that Dr. Rajvanshi has published. It can be accesed here.

Dr. Anil Rajvanshi, a distinguished alumni of IIT Kanpur gave an Institute lecture on Patanjali Yoga Sutras at IIT Kanpur on 9th November 2023. During his visit to the campus he was interviewed by Media Cell of IITK regarding his work and proposed Center of Excellence for high tech systems in rural areas.This is a podcast of that interview. The video of the interview is here.

Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi was invited as chief guest to HAL, Nasik in Otober 2023. The ocassion was the Vigilance Awareness Week program at HAL.The talk was entitled : Ethics of Work - How to be a Good Citizen.The talk was well received and Dr. Rajvanshi had the ocassion of visiting the HAL facilities and interacting with the officers and staff.

This is a podcast of discussion that Dr. Anil Rajvanshi had in October 2023 with the students of Kirori Mal College, Delhi University.The original podcast is available on their website TRT Unspoken.

This is a talk given by Dr. Anil Rajvanshi on 6th October 2023 to senior citizens of Nightingale Medical Trust, Bangalore.The talk was organized by Mrs. Usha Prasad.

This is an invited lecture that Dr. Anil Rajvanshi, Director of Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute gave to freshman students at NICMAR University, Pune on 25th July 2023.The lecture was followed by questions and answer session.

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 

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.

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 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Mayank Chaya, a well known journalist from Chicago interviewed Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) on 4th August 2022 for South Asia Monitor. The interview covered wide area including renewable energy, R&D, innovation in India and role of Mahatma Gandhi in modern India. South Asia Monitor (https://southasiamonitor.org).With diverse global catastrophes caused by climate change across the world, India has the opportunity to play a decisive role to help reverse that. Significantly contributing to that effort is Anil Rajvanshi, a pioneering innovator, heading the Nimbkar Agricultural Institute or NARI in Phaltan, Maharashtra.An inductee of America's Solar Hall of Fame, Rajvanshi has bachelor's and master's degrees from the IIT Kanpur and a Ph. D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Florida. He has seven patents to his credit in areas of lantern, alcohol stove, biomass gasifier and electric cycle rickshaws.Rajvanshi spoke to South Asia Monitor and Mayank Chhaya Reports over a wide range of issues, including climate change, rural innovation and whether India has the R and D depth to make a difference.Read more at: https://www.southasiamonitor.org/sam-conversations/anil-rajvanshi-renewable-energy-expert-rural-technology-innovator-and-spiritual

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.  

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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).

In this podcast Dr. Rajvanshi talks about how the great spiritual tradions of India can show the world a new path of development.Thus instead of following the unsustainable growth example of the US and China, which is based on extreme greed and a very materialistic outlook, we should give the world a new direction of development where high technology is guided by spiritualityRead more at: https://www.southasiamonitor.org/spotlight/indias-philosophical-spiritual-traditions-can-give-new-direction-global-sustainable

In this audio Dr. Anil Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) talks about how modern science and yoga sutras are similar. He also talks about the experiences of UFO abductees who talk about the supernatural powers exhibited by extraterrestrials which is exactly what Patanjali wrote 2500 years ago. The similarity is really uncanny.Dr. Rajvanshi has written about this issue in many published articles.https://www.southasiamonitor.org/open...https://nariphaltan.org/patanjali.pdfHis writings on spirituality and similar topics are available at: https://nariphaltan.org/writings.htmSHOW LESS

In this talk Dr. Rajvanshi describes the possible mechanism of memory formation in the brain and how the time and sequencing is buried in them. He also talks about where it could be stored and what is the mechanism by which unpleasant memories could be removed to make our lives better and happier. This is an interesting talk and makes one think about the underlying processes in the brain. The URL of this talk is at: https://nariphaltan.org/memoryformation.pdf

This is the interview of Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi on the new Engineering policy laid out by All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). This policy states that for engineering college entrance it is not necessary for students to know Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. They can come from any stream and in the college they can take bridge courses. Dr. Rajvanshi states that this policy was dictated more from commercial point of view rather than any solid reasons.

In late 1977 I was walking through a thick pine-grove in Gainesville, Florida, USA when suddenly a thought came out of blue that gravity and human thought may be related. I was not thinking about this relationship or anything connected to gravity at that time, and hence was taken aback by this thought and felt that it must be true since it came with such a force. The power of this thought was such that I spent next 3-4 months researching it and, in the process, neglected my Ph.D. research. I also felt that pine-grove acted as an antenna for getting such a thought. This event also propelled me to start investigating the area of mind-matter interaction and other aspects of spirituality. In fact, whatever little I have done within this realm in the last 40 years was triggered by this single thought. Though I understood intuitively the import of this thought at that time and even today, somehow the relationship between deep human thought and gravity has remained elusive. Recently it appeared that there may be a light at the end of the tunnel! And this podcast is my humble attempt to show how the human thought and gravity may be related. The article was published in Thrive Global. https://thriveglobal.com/stories/touched-by-light-a-conjecture-on-how-gravity-and-human-thought-maybe-related/

14th March is the birth anniversary of Albert Einstein. He has been one of my heroes and I have been inspired by his work and his life. So I thought of paying my small tribute to him. Millions of words and thousands of books have already been written about him so what I am stating in this essay may not be anything new but for few anecdotes from people whom I knew. I have always considered Einstein to be an extremely evolved human being and in my judgment, he occupies the same stature as Buddha, Christ and other great figures of history who have given mankind a new thought and have helped in its progress and evolution. Such people are few and far between but come to this planet earth to give a quantum jump to mankind’s thought. The article on it was published in Thrive Global. https://thriveglobal.com/stories/one-of-my-heroes-albert-einstein/ The URL is at: https://nariphaltan.org/einstein.pdf

Homeopathy is an alternative system of medicine. It is used by about 1/7th of mankind. Yet very little is known on how it works. I present a possible mechanism on its working based on existing scientific principles. The URL of this episode is at: https://nariphaltan.org/homeopathyconjecture.pdf It was also published in Thrive Global. https://thriveglobal.com/stories/how-homeopathy-might-work-a-conjecture/

As one grows older one remembers nostalgically the era gone by. One such era was of steam engine train travel. I would like to narrate some instances of my fascination with steam engines and how I rode on a steam engine. The URL of this episode is at: https://thriveglobal.com/stories/era-gone-by-my-love-affair-with-steam-engines/

On 30th January was the 73rd death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi – the apostle of peace and a person who engineered India’s independence from British rule in 1947. His decency, democratic nature, personal examples, and teachings are as relevant today in this divided and fractious world as they were almost hundred years ago. I am going to narrate anecdotes about him from people who met and worked with him. Anecdotes help describe a person in human terms. No matter how great the soul is, once it acquires a human body then it is guided by the frailties of human existence. The URL of this episode is at:https://thriveglobal.com/stories/mahatma-gandhi-as-they-knew-him-personal-anecdotes-2/

We all identify entities with their forms. Either living or non-living entities are all identified by their physical forms. Our own body-form creates a memory map in our brain, and we identify ourselves and others with those memories. The idea of form has always intrigued me. If a simple physical and thermodynamical analysis is done on a system, then one faces a dilemma on how to put the energy of form in it. For example when a body (either a living or a non-living one) gets destroyed then its atoms and molecules all get distributed in space since matter cannot be produced or destroyed except in nuclear fission or fusion; or at very high temperatures when it becomes plasma! Similarly, the energy that goes in making its structure converts into heat and is also dissipated in space. But what happens to the energy of form? And also what happens to its space-time structure that it displaced for some time in that form? These are some issues which I think are fundamental to species survival and procreation. I feel that the fear of death is associated with the destruction of form. Hence all living entities protect their forms and procreate to provide its continuity. This podcast tries to explore these issues. The URL of this essay is at: https://nariphaltan.org/form.pdf

In this podcast Dr. Anil Rajvanshi presents a novel and unique description of Consciousness. Since time immemorial mankind has always wondered what is consciousness and where is it located in the brain. Some recent scientific discoveries may provide a possible answer. There are various definition of consciousness but the most accepted definition is “awareness”. Awareness is an outcome of thought. Dr. Rajvanshi presents a unique description of what is thought and where in the brain it is produced. The URL of this podcast is at: https://nariphaltan.org/whatisconsciousness.pdf All these ideas of thought and consciousness have been dealt in details in Dr. Rajvanshi's book; "Nature of Human Thought". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBSo5WWW0-4

The true power of technology is achieved when it impacts the last mile. Listen to Dr. Anil Rajvanshi talk about how technology can be used to create a difference at the grassroot level and what it take to be the change you want to see in the world. This podcast has been recorded by Suraj Nair - a young researcher from Bangalore. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anil-k-rajvanshi-580a9323/ Bio: https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf Podcast: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/anilrajvanshi

Throughout the history of human civilization there have been large number of instances where so called “miracles” have been performed. These have included levitation, production of material things from thin air, physical healing, etc. These events have come because of interaction of human thought and material surroundings. This podcast explores the possibilities on how human thought could interact with matter. Thus the nature of human thought, its characteristics and possibility of how it can interact with gravity and matter are explored. Novel concept of thought engine, existence of human thought in higher dimensions and its relationship with space, time and Universal Consciousness are discussed. The URL of this podcast is at: https://nariphaltan.org/mindmatterconjecture.pdf Please look at this link for figures and further reading material