New Delhi, July 13 -- It is the final day of the Railway Week at the Bharat Pavilion-India at the World Expo 2025 in Osaka and I am in a magnificent, almost dreamlike situation of international appreciation- and cross cultural sharing. Here, I am not only a party to the celebration of Indian engineering and innovation, but a feeling of a warm appreciation between nations.

In the twisting roads of the Yumeshima Island, where this futuristic Expo is held, converge the inquisitive hordes of people all over the world, especially including the most interested Japanese masses, who have learned to hold the Indian Pavilion, particularly the Indian Railways exhibit, as their essential visiting showpiece.

There is no mistaking the fluid energy of t...