{"id":4360,"date":"2025-02-05T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T06:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/mfg-transformation\/?post_type=team&#038;p=4360"},"modified":"2025-02-05T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T06:38:07","slug":"sudhanshu-mani","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/mfg-transformation\/team\/sudhanshu-mani\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudhanshu Mani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sudhanshu Mani retired in the apex grade of GoI from the Indian Railways (IR) Service of Mechanical Engineering as General Manager, Integral Coach Factory, Chennai after serving IR for 38 years. He also served as Railway Advisor in the Embassy of India, Berlin for 3 years, interacting with railway systems of advanced countries world-wide on behalf of IR. A graduate engineer in Mechanical and Electrical engineering, he is also a Fellow of Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London IMechE). Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai and Sir Padampad Singhania University, Udaipur, have conferred upon him the degrees of Doctor of Science (Hon.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Hon.) respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He led the Train 18\/Vande Bharat project, the first ever indigenous semi high-speed train of India, from concept to delivery.<\/strong> His journey in leading and completing this unique project is recounted in his best-seller book, \u2018<strong>My Train 18 Story<\/strong>\u2019. He has authored six more books, including four on a subject of his special passion, art and railways, and one each on greening of environment and collation of the works of Gh\u0101lib and Shakespeare and two more books are works in progress.<\/p>\n<p>After retirement, he is engaged in advisory role in the corporate world, including technical, strategic and investment consulting.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from his intense work as a consultant, he is also engaged in multiple activities like serving as Co-Editor for niche magazine Rail Business and on Advisory &amp; Editorial Board of leading Railway &amp; Metro journals, organization of Awadh Conclave (a festival of free thought), <strong>Keynote\/stand-alone speaker and panellist on platforms such as IIMs, IITs, TEDx, PMI, AIMA &amp; CII conferences<\/strong>, anchor for news analysis, art and culture on YouTube channel thepublic.india and promotion and curation of Visual Arts in association with a prominent art gallery of Lucknow. He runs a \u2018not for profit\u2019 art and culture centre, Manis\u2019, and presides over Rolling Cars\u2019 Society, which promotes technical awareness. He writes opinion pieces regularly on national issues of engineering and project management in leading newspapers, journals and portals, like, The Hindu, The Hindu Business Line, Deccan herald, Moneycontrol, PSUWatch, FPJ, IRJ, and The Pioneer and in addition, on these subjects and current affairs, art and literature etc. in his blog <a href=\"http:\/\/anindecisiveindian.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/anindecisiveindian.blogspot.com\/#<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He is also a theatre aficionado and in a new avatar, he has recently produced a play \u2018Bay\u0101n-e-Gh\u0101lib\u2019, bringing out the life and times of Gh\u0101lib, through recitation, narration, rendition, music and Kathak and acted in the same, which has been a runaway success at Lucknow and Hyderabad.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social media details<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/manisudhansu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/manisudhansu.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Linked in: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/s-mani-train18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/s-mani-train18<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/anindecisiveindian.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/anindecisiveindian.blogspot.com\/#<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManiSudhanshu58\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManiSudhanshu58<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sudhanshu.mani.5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sudhanshu.mani.5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/ManiSudhanshu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/ManiSudhanshu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4364,"menu_order":0,"template":"","team_designation":[],"team_department":[44],"class_list":["post-4360","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team_department-speakers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sudhanshu Mani - ET Edge Manufacturing Transformation Summit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/mfg-transformation\/team\/sudhanshu-mani\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sudhanshu Mani - ET Edge Manufacturing Transformation Summit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sudhanshu Mani retired in the apex grade of GoI from the Indian Railways (IR) Service of Mechanical Engineering as General Manager, Integral Coach Factory, Chennai after serving IR for 38 years. 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