[7] Three years later, he founded the Sruthi Laya Seva School that now has centres at Chennai, Bangalore, Australia, London, US, and Canada.

Mani conducted and orchestrated several such concerts, notably a collaboration with Sri VS Narasimhan in 1990 called Melodyssey, a project with 40 artists, and including Western and Indian Instruments.

[citation needed] Mani had performed with many international artists such as Paul Grabowsky of Australian Art Orchestra, Eero Haemmeneimi of Finland Naada group,[8] La Scala percussionist Elio Marchesini, Livio Magnini, Paul Simon, and with the Finland Philharmonic Orchestra.

[citation needed] The Australian Art Orchestra had adapted his Bahudari and Ranjani compositions into Jazz style and released it as Into The Fire.

In 2008, Mani collaborated with Sarangan Sriranganathan and other Australian musicians in a classical fusion concert called Unity in Diversity.