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Anil K RajvanshiAuthor: 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. Language: en Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Science Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Romance of Innovation - R&D is Fun
Episode 218
Saturday, 15 August, 2026
This is the podcast of the talk given by Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi (https://nariphaltan.org/shortbio.pdf) at Tata Innovation Center, Pune on 12 August 2026. The URL of slides is at: https://nariphaltan.org/tctalk.pdf The talk centered around the methodology developed by Irving Langmuir and his team at General Electric to do industrial R&D. That methodology developed in early 1910s and 20s in US is still valid and should provide the guiding principles in all Corporate R&D activities. Dr. Rajvanshi has written many articles on this theme. https://nariphaltan.org/langmuir.pdf And https://www.nariphaltan.org/langmuirrural.pdf
