With its vastly rich history and culture, India is a heritage-lover’s paradise. But there’s a problem. A large number of monuments, museums and art is either badly maintained or looks unsalvageable. Solutions from the world of AI, however, argue that things need not be the way they are right now. AI can be used to travel in time to see how the object was originally and attempt to restore it to a large extent.

Credits:

Narration: Harsha Bhogle

Executive Producer: Gaurav Vaz

Producer: Archana Nathan

Research, Interviews and Scripts: Prthvir Solanki

Narrative overview: Charu Sharma and Shriram Parthasarathy

Title track, sound design and background score: Nikhil Rao, Avyay Gujral and Abhijit Nath.

All clips and voices used in this podcast are owned by the original creators

We thank wholeheartedly all our guests who appeared on this episode

• Benoy K. Behl, art historian, filmmaker and photographer
• Ashwin Srivastava, CEO of Sapio Analytics
• Professor Ronojoy Adhikari, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at University of Cambridge
• Fabin Rasheed, Creator of Auria Kathi
• Sahej Rahal, Digital Artist

Links to clips used in the episode and citations:

• The Arctic World Archives website: https://arcticworldarchive.org/
• Mann Ki Baat Episode where Narendra Modi mentions the Sapio Analytics Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7gEx18Zw98
• Explore the ancient city of Olympia through Microsoft’s project: https://inculture.microsoft.com/arts/ancient-olympia-common-grounds/
• A short article about the AI painting sold at Christie’s: https://www.christies.com/features/a-collaboration-between-two-artists-one-human-one-a-machine-9332-1.aspx
• Auria Kathi’s Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/p/B6vR2kaFXSd/

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