Having worked in a government office can totally relate. 1. The dedicated ones are thrown each & every work even if it's not theirs to do. While the freeloaders get a free pass. 2. The person who takes an initiative gets hounded for life unless he has the politician's backing. Hearing Mani Sir's anecdotes can see why change in the Ministry was inevitable. Hope Ashwani Vaishnaw delivers.

Went to Vaishnodevi in Vande Bharat! Best train experience ever for me... Thanks to people like Mani sir people in India are now able to experience world class facilities 😀

Maza aaya, Indian railways ko different level par le gye hai ye, He is a very practical person. Great podcast Arihant bhai.

मनी साहब मैं आपके योगदान के लिए आप व आप की पूरी टीम को कोटी कोटी नमन

Sudhanshu ji is a GEM 😊 Very simple and down to earth man

This man is great , his justifications are very realistic

another brilliant Podcast. Really depressing that such a great initiative was stopped and punished by people working in Railway. I hope people who tried to obstruct this are made accountable. and the people behind Train18 are rewarded. Also, Arihant please have Tufail Chaturvedi on your next podcast if possible.

In My 28 Years Of Life I have Heard only this 1 hour of interview of any Person Hats off too you sir What a Great Journey you have completed in your GM sir Tenor . As I am also a railway employee Feel Proud To Be A Part Of Railways Because Of You & Yours Team Work.

What a voice. Loved the range of guests on this channel.

In Pvt sector, if you don't work you are questioned. In Govt sector, if you work, you get asked, what is your interest / motive etc. Non performance in Govt is equated with nishkama karma. People who just mechanically follow process without a bother about outcome and results are rewarded. Time entire PSU sector is privatised. India would then shoot up economically in no time. I have worked in PSUs for decades.

यही तो भारत का दुर्भाग्य है की ईमानदारी की सजा मिलती हैं इनाम नहीं

सुधांशु मणि ने एक नए अध्याय लिख दिए जिसे मिटाया नहीं जा सकता रेलवे को इसे अपनाना ही होगा इसका कोई विकल्प नहीं , सिस्टम मे कल्चर ही ऐसा है रेलवे ही नहीं पूरे सरकारी तंत्र मे ऐसा है शुक्र है देश ऐसे मुकाम पर पहुच गया है जहां से पीछे नहीं जाएगा सुधांशु जैसे लोगों की मेहनत का फल है

excellent interview. The quality of this shows why our main media has been replaced by social media and KZfaq. Mr Mani is a doer and he exhibits that building infrastructure is not so straightforward and economics plays a large role in projects.

पूरे कार्यक्रम का बहुत अच्छा संयोजन। हृदय से साधुवाद।

Thank you for bringing Mr Sudhanshu Ji ... please request Dr Balram from ICMR to tell his experience in collaborating with BB to produce Covaxin

Thanks to your service sir. Today, India is in love with Train 18 set and it's a big blow to those who wants to continue with the status quo of Indian Railways.

Trane 18 जैसे गिफ्ट भारत को देने के लिए मानी सर को सादर प्रणाम 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Our best wishes to Shri Sudhanshu Mani. India will always be indebted to his efforts & success. His efforts have given fresh confidence to Indian outlook & national morale! Regds

Namaste. I appreciate the eclectic choice of interview.

बहोत खुब। सुधांशुजी को फिरसे आमंत्रित कीजीये कभी रेल के बारेमे और बात करने

If only all govt officers were like Mr Shudanshu ji, India would have been far developed than what she is today. Loved this podcast and keep on bringing these gems out in light.🙏 And Mani ji has a very magnificent and charming voice.

Thankyou Sudhanshu Sir and other brilliant officers who actually worked fr the Nation.

Mantri ji imandar he jin logo ne rokne ki koshish kihe unhe dand jarur de .sudhansu sir ap logo ke dil me rahenge Jo sunega pappe garve karega😢

wah! maza aagya, showing it to my parents

I salute him and his team

Rarely do we get such oversight of contemporary issues related to our Indian masses. This was such a treat to come across to. Pertinent questions, Mr. Mani's positive outlook despite struggling with India's inertia for mediocrity, More solutions than bitching. He does comes across as a leader to follow. Hope the current minister rectifies the past mistakes and lay a precedent for more such initiative-taking, ingenious and hardworking teams to prosper.

Abhijit chavda, Vikram sampath, koenraad elst, Sanjeev sanyal, Rahul raushan, Stanly Johny

Train 18 actually needs some decorative changes in terms of aestheics, comfort and luxury, not in technical aspects like faster acceleration, and these can be achieved in relative short time without requiring extensive trial and testing. 1) Exterior still looks boxy like old LHB coaches instead of tubular. T18 also needs a side/bottom skirt to hide the bogie and all those components under the coach. 2) Nose and exterior of train pilot's cabin needs improvement in terms of aestheics and aerodynamics (the nose of RRTS bombardier indeed looks better). some portions of it looks shoddily designed and made and also does not look like merging smoothly into the exterior of the rest of the coach- the nose and exterior of the driver's cabin of the DEMU supplied to the Srilankan railways is less aerodynamic but atleast merges in far better aesthetic way into rest of the locomotive. Blue horizontal patch on upper side of the coaches perhaps intended at hiding protruded welding, looks ugly and suddenly ends before the driver's cabin. 3) Interiors of Executive chair class has to be more aesthetically pleasing in its paneling, finesse with more wood finish (or woodlike) paneling, more facilities like proper WiFi (train WiFi is a joke on Indian railways trains), LED screen for each seat (many commuters who do not carry tablets actually prefer wider screens over their smart phones and definitely would like to rest their phones), proper leg rest to justify the significant rise in fare over the economy class. Also seats in train 18 are not as comforting as the Tejas express both in terms of ergonomics and cushion comfort (the new tejas on Mumbai-Ahmedabad route, Chennai-Madurai Tejas express have better executive class seats). Atleast the executive class on T18 should introduce more comfortable seats. Also, the luggage rack on executive class could be kept covered for privacy purpose and the reading light could be attached to the seat itself just like aircraft. It is a shame that three years were just wasted.

Message to PM and Railway Minister Gives a chance to Mr.shubranshu for appreciation for his hard work.

Bullet train project is working perfectly satisfactorily especially in "GUJARAT" Don't know about Maharashtra...

You are an inspiration to the younger generation. Politics in every field is hampering the development of our country.

Sudhanshu mani sir we love you and proud of you sir.....koti koti pranam

जय हिंद जय भारत।

वंदेभारत ट्रेन भारत की सभी बड़े शहरों से चलना चाहिए।

Ram ram bhai, aise hi shandaar logo ko late raho. Thank you Mr. Mani for your service.

29:55 Sir this is so true. Recently went to Banaras, when booked the tickets it showed that thr were not enough seats available. But in actual when boarded in the train the whole compartment was almost empty, not only mine but also the nearby compartments too.

Mani sir - rocks , India should be proud of him and the team

Ahh!!! Being from govt I know. We are not dumbs. We are selected from a very tough competition. We are the brightest minds on this country but we have a feudal attitude and we fight among ourselves. Nobody strong enough to break free these shakles and guide us. Any govt. employee can do miracles if guided properly.

Salute sudhanshu sir....your dedication always inspires me.

Amazing person Mr. Mani , par excellence. Just keep hearing his wonderful insights and experiences... extremely knowledgeable.

Hats off to u sir.. god bless u always.. Isey kehtey h karm hi dharm hota h

I appreciate the truthfulness and honesty in the podcast, Nevertheless regardless of the odds and problems and challenges and the corruption We will emerge successful and glorious And our Indian railways will become Better year on year 👍💪💪❤️

Bhaiii 😭........😭😭 kitne mehnat ke bad enka video mila.. Sukriya sir. Mani sir ka etna achha video ke liye sukriya 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

I just want to salute you Sir. Jai Hind. Just great, a humble and noble personality. U r inspiration for innovative youth.

Ab toh Abhijit Chavda ko bhi le aao bhai aur Vikram Sampath ko bhi

Modi government did excellent work 👍👍👍👍 to more credit to you sir for doing this.

WE INDIAN ARE VERY PROUD THANKFUL TO MANI SIR & HIS TEAM FOR GIVING THE GIFT OF VANDE BHARAT TRAIN SHAME ON THE OTHER PART OF OFFICER'S OF THE RAILWAY & MINISTRY COULD NOT PROCEED FURTHER RESULTS

What a podcast!! All respect and shat shat naman to you Mani jee 🙏🏽😇 you vocalized what my father told me while I was growing up; honesty and passion for one’s job is personal commitment! Just a simple question I have to you and Arihant; did the Govt of India rectified their earlier actions and promoted the in-service teammates of yours? Please let me know. Because if it’s still not done, we as responsible citizens of India need to get involved in this campaign. ITS ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT.

Dr.Vishweshwsraiah/Dr.George Kurien/ Dr A P J Kalam / Dr. Nambi narayan/ Metro Sridharan/ Dr . Narayan Murthy/ Dr. Krishn Ella and now Sudhanshu Mani. Hope we get many more Engineers.

Dear Mani, Sir its always a pleasure to hear from U. In this cacophony, urs is a lone saner voice. Where the hyperbolic & vitrolic score high, ur logical & positivity stays in the ground. Congrats for appearing in other podcasts apart from NS. Thank U Sir 🙏

I sent the train concept and photograph to the then Railway minister Mr.Suresh prabhu, in 2016, with the same blue and white color pattern, on his twitter..and i gave many advices to him on twitter, when i came to india, on how india should change the old brick colored trains to some modern looking european trains, and also sent him some photographs of New Zealand and Australian train stations.I dont know if it is coincidence or not, but immediately after this, news came about this Train 18 in indian media. Thanks-From USA.🙏☝🙏🙏🙏

सरकार को सारी ट्रैन भारत मे ही banani चाहिए... भले ही थोड़ा समय लगे.. खुद बनाएंगे तो रोजगार मिलेगा.. हुनर मिलेगा.. टेक्नोलॉजी devlop होंगी..

Great Conversation Arihant bhai👍

very inspirational story....

Jai shree Ram, S Mani ji Namskar. Mani ji Salute

Wow! What a person! Lovely interview and lovely platform!thanks .

Hope our hon'ble PM n Rail Minister watched this video clip n take some concrete steps !!!

As a Keralite I fully support the intention of K-Rail. But it's better to Construct it in Broad Gauge and use and improved version of Train-18 to achieve a tol speed of 200km/h.

This was very insightful. We have a great amount of govmt employees who like to work positively but they are withheld by a junk class of employees. We ought to break these shackles more often and be brave towards our approach. This is the least we can do for our motherland.

ट्रेन 18 के नायक मनी सर को प्रणाम

When Mani Sir said that you could delay this project but you could not stop this from becoming a reality ...I got reminded of famous quote of Victor Hugo , " Nothing is more powerful than an Idea whose time has come." I have been an admirer of his approach towards works As he sacrificied a cushy position of GM of a Zone for making his dream a reality by opting for the post of less lucrative post of GM of a production unit. It speaks volumes about his works ethics and integrity. I have read some of his posts on Audit where he has made valid criticism against the latter. I agree to sir's criticism despite being a Railway Auditor beacuse I can understand his points of audits having little skin in the game and auditiors often become victims of cognitive biases like Hindsight Bias and Confirmation bias.. Always a delight listening to him and reading his articles...what makes him an eloquent speaker is his penchant forcusing shayaaris and philosophical quotes .

मणि सर गजब..👌💐

Real and great conversation 👏👍

Bharat Mata ki Jai 🇮🇳🚩🙏🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🙏🇮🇳🇮🇳🙏🇮🇳🚩🇮🇳 Jay Shree Krishna Jai Shree Ram 🇮🇳🚩🙏🇮🇳🚩🙏🇮🇳🚩🙏

Even after gone through so bad this man is still so positive... you and ur team had performed ur duty towards ur country and u will get ur place in History..

For an aspiring engineer, I take a lot of inspiration from Mani Sudhansu sir. Always great to hear him.

Very sad .Ashwani vaishanaw must look this matter .mani sir is real hero

Very proud of Shri Sudanshu Mani as fellow Indian! He serves BHARAT RATNA.

Brilliant podcast. Respect for both of you

Great job sir, you are hero of India 🎉

Your podcasts keep getting better. 👌👌👏👏

We the general people of India will always remember you as a creator of great transformation of Indian Railways train system in the form of Train 18 ( Bande Bharat express) after introduction of Rajdhani express in 1960's. Sir, I believe every word you spoken in this interview & probably can feel to some extent what you are feeling after gifting the great train sets to the people of my country with that record breaking time schedule but in return so much of trouble for the entire team & you also. But Sir, I am not surprised. This has become the culture here since long time, specially in Govt. establishments. Here, doing good work like developing important assets like train18 or fighter plane like Tejas, Arjun Tanks, which can be manufactured locally is a act like stoning in Hornets nest. Imagine how many foreign trips of high level people you have spoilt & many other things not mentionable here. You will be pulled down from all sides. When you are in a stage of completing your design & manufacturer & successful trial on that moment you will face changed requirements from buyer/ users. You have sensed that and intelligently bypassed them as you mentioned in the interview. Only advantage, here developer & user/buyer are same i,e. I R. Second vital thing is jealousy. Which is the most dangerous thing for not only the project but also for related all peoples. Not only many colleagues become potential enemy but also people in very higher ups in the chain. Sir, this is the story of nearly all the Govt. establishments who are functioning in important areas like new creation & development . Our country have lost many scientists & talents in their golden time. One example Ex ISRO Cryogenic engine scientists Nambi Nrayanan's saga. Only hope is that with the change of leadership at the top (Political & bureaucracy), things are changing but it will take time. Changing of culture, developed since 60 years can't be changed over night. Let us hope for the best of our country & once again a very big salute for you Sir. Jai Hind.

Thanks you for podcast. Keep working

Mr.Mani We appreciate your work sir.

Er. Sudhanshu Mani should had been awarded by extension of three years inted of that he was facing departmental inquiry case... How india will progress?

HAT'S OFF & GOD BLESS YOU & YOUR TEAM WE WILL PRAY FOR THEM

Respect to a brilliant mind🙏

What a tragedy for society, honesty suffers the tyranny of currupt. Where will our future be as society if we can't protect courage of few good men.

great salute to Mr. Mani

Free and frank..wonderful. let's bless such people. Hope goverment can create a process where people are dismissed when performance is poor

Salute Mani Sir 🙏🏻🚩❤️🇮🇳

Great podcast great guest do bring him more in future. Though should have discussed more aspects of Bullet trains in India.

Delighted to hear such insightful conversation, keep it up Vaad team. Would like to see such episodes more.

excellent. Thank you Arihant Ji

Salute to Shri Sudhanshu Mani Sir... 💐🙏🏻

One more gem..thanks..

We Salut Mr sudansu mani as Indian we all proud always ❤️

Great Mani Sir 👍

Hats off Sir...

वर्ल्ड लेबल की स्वदेशी ट्रेन बन गई तो विदेश से दुगनी कीमत पर खरीद कर तगड़ा कमीशन खाने की उम्मीद करने वाले अफसरों और उनके सरपरस्तों का तो मनी साहब ने भारी नुकसान कर दीया है। अब मनी साहब और उनकी टीम को इसकी सजा तो भुगतनी ही थी। कमीशन लॉबी तो उनका जहां तक वश चलेगा आगे भी इस प्रोजेक्ट को मटिया मेट करने की कोशिश करेंगे।

Watching this while travelling in Indian Railways 😎

Mani sahab, intelligent and competent engineers cannot help but exert when opportunity to build and do something new which they always wanted to do. That pleasure of struggling to build something novel is very compelling. It is understandable to me if to complete and see the train running in time before retirement, you used your legitimate powers to hasten procurement. I have worked in govt and have believed that if your intentions are honest and your files speak for you, then you will not be in grief. But maybe I was lucky ? I am sorry that the officers were not appreciated and such a bad example has been set for those who dare? I hope this govt will look into it?

Please bring acharya Prashant 🙏🙏🙏

Icon proud to an Indian🇮🇳

Very good n informative video. Thanks

Didn't know about this legend thanks for introducing him to us.

वंदे भारत

I watched latest and then came to this old interview some noteworthy points are mentioned below 1. Mani sir is bold to say everything but he avoided to make his interview controversial like Governor Satyapal Malik 2. Our Lovely country men has vast potential to do anything unless politics should keep aside. 3. Mani Sir insisted to make more projects like this in India for Aatamnirbhar India... 4. Government officials and bureaucrats are not supportive towards developing new indigenous technology instead they prefer import of technology, I think main objective of their is to grab bribe from multi national companies There are much more to say on 2 interviews of mani Sir...

If hard working & honest condidate is not demoralized & punished, it means he is not working in Govt. Sector.

Sir You Are Proud of India......