Yatrigan Kripyaa Dhyan De… May I Have Your Attention Please! 1-0-1-1-1 Down Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CSMT)-Madgaon Konkan Kanya Express is arriving shortly on platform number one, such announcements at railway stations in a woman's voice in different pitches resonate in the ears as one waits for any train on the platform. The soundtrack in different pitches—up and down—is so embedded in our subconscious minds that we seldom fail to give it any thought and, in a hurry to locate our coaches and move the luggage, blindly follow it as it churns out coach numbers. Well, here’s a twister. The announcement in a woman's voice is actually that of a 24-year-old man, Shravan Adode, who did it once and then again and again—till his voice became the voice of Indian Railways.

Adode's voice recordings, digitally mixed up to create sentences as per requirements, have now become common announcements at all stations of Indian Railways.