Vande Bharat, Team ICF and Me
Train 18/Vande Bharat express is constantly in news now-a-days, what with the PM Narendra Modi ji himself launching every train and the train running over cattle frequently. Thanks to our countrymen, considerable acclaim and indeed some abuse came, and is coming, my way. One of my TEDx talk of September 2019 at Hyderabad went viral ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvDLYZ1tm7A&t=24s ) and many of my interviews started doing the rounds again on social media. Facebook posts summarising the story of self as the leader and the Chennai team as the creator of the train, originally written in Hindi, were shared very widely, including in English and many regional languages. (type ‘ आज से कोई 6 साल पुरानी बात है ’ or ‘ It is some 6 years old thing from today’ (sic) in Facebook search and you can see more than 100 of them with varying level of readership from a few hundreds to as many as 50 K. I neither know who originated the post nor am I tech-savvy enough to find that out so I th