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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