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Archaeologist laments preservation of
famous Indian landmarks in lecture
Hosted by Center for South Asian Studies, Nyanjot Lahiri spotlights poor conservation
On Monday, the University
of
Michigan’s
Center
for
South
Asian
Studies
hosted
Professor
Nayanjot
Lahiri,
a
historian and archaeologist, to
discuss conservation struggles
faced by India’s archeological
efforts. Lahiri referenced the
mistreatment of major Indian
national monuments and possible
solutions
to
protect
these
monuments and educate the
Indian people on Indian heritage.
Lahiri studies ancient India and
is a professor of history at Ashoka
University. She won the 2013
Infosys Prize and has published
multiple books on ancient Indian
history and archeology.
CSAS
professor
Thomas
Trautmann introduced Lahiri and
described her writing historical
works.
“She is a wonderful writer and
a very engaging one and notes it
and appreciates and curates it,”
Trautmann said.
As Lahiri took the stage, she
referenced the Archaeological
Survey of India which states
there are only 3,700 nationally
protected
monuments,
10,000
monuments protected by state
and union territories and over
500,000 monuments in India
left unprotected and subject to
mistreatment.
“I think it’s necessary to
remember that … (even though)
a monument has been declared
protected
or
just
because
there are lots of antiquities in
different
museums
in
India,
this is not in itself enough to
ensure that they will be properly
conserved,” Lahiri said.
During
the
lecture,
she
projected images of Indian
monuments
harmed
by
human actions such as the
Taj Mahal and the Elephanta
Caves. She showed statues
on which people have hung
clothes and the Elephanta
caves covered in garbage.
She stated more than two-
thirds of India’s federally
protected monuments are left
unguarded.
Lahiri also blamed the poor
treatment of the monuments
on encroachments as part of
a systematic land grab and
politicians who favor these
actions over ones that protect
the heritage sites.
“These
beautiful
monuments, as a consequence,
has (sic) been turned into a
rubbish dump,” Lahiri said.
One
example
of
this,
according to Lahiri, is when
former
Prime
Minister
Indira Gandhi’s government
allowed the creation of a
petroleum refinery within
40 kilometers of the Taj
Mahal in 1968. As soon as
1973,
it
became
evident
environmental
pollutants
had been harming the monument
itself, and the Indian Supreme
Court stepped in to regulate the
emissions from the refinery.
“In retrospect, Mrs. Gandhi’s
inability to act on this manner sits
very uneasily with her interest
in monuments, one can only
“surmise that the tassel between
heritage and development, in this
instance, she turned her face away
from the past,” Lahiri said.
Lahiri gave possible solutions
for the care of monuments.
She stated that the top-down
approach with the government
has failed and a bottom-up
approach would help protect
heritage sites and public pressure
from the ground-up would better
protect these national sites. She
supported education in schools
beyond textbook learning, such
as taking children out to these
monuments, which she believes
would instill national pride and
protection for their heritage.
Rackham
student
Brittany
Puller said Lahiri’s lecture was,
for
her,
a
once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to hear the author.
“My biggest takeaway was
the
conservation
of
Indian
monuments and how not much
is being done, however, it needs
to be a bottom-up approach
rather than just an archeological
sites approach,” Puller said.
Lahiri emphasized the pride
she has in her Indian heritage and
the pride all Indians should have
over their monuments.
“India’s monuments and relics,
I think, deserve better than what
has fallen to their lot,” Lahiri
said. “Their ownership across
all sections of society is very
urgent and necessary, they have to
survive in a better form than what
we see around.”
REMY FARKAS
Daily Staff Reporter
Many have hailed Mcity, the
University of Michigan’s self-driving
car site, as the first of its kind in
accelerating the global autonomous
vehicle technology. In the last year,
though, the campus has played
host to far saucier competition: The
future of pizza delivery.
Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda
announced Monday the Japanese
car company will begin testing
self-driving vehicles at Mcity in
partnership with Uber, Amazon
and Pizza Hut. The class of vehicles
dubbed “e-Palette,” according to
Wired, will serve as a “mobile hub
for services from medical clinics to
entertainment and festivals.”
Vehicles will be electric and
fully self-driving, with some
types large enough to even
contain small businesses. The
announcement marks a shift
from driving technology-focused
development to business strategies
that can measure— quite literally —
deliverable gains. Toyoda projected
the concept vehicles would hit
testing grounds by 2020.
“With Toyota, we are excited to
be partnering with an undisputed
leader in human mobility with a
reputation for innovation, reliability
and efficiency, as we define the
pizza delivery experience of the
future,” Artie Starrs, president of
Pizza Hut U.S., said in a statement.
“We are focused on technology-
based solutions that enable our team
members and drivers to deliver even
better customer experiences.”
Flavor considerations aside,
Pizza Hut isn’t too far behind
Domino’s Pizza. The Ann Arbor-
based competitor announced a
similar partnership with Ford
last August. The companies’ most
pressing questions included how
customers would react to having to
leave their homes to retrieve their
pizza orders.
Mcity researchers made their
own headlines earlier this week
with the release of three potential
cybersecurity vulnerabilities in
self-driving vehicles. From hacked
technology to ransoms, a Mcity
report detailed the ways in which
self-driving cars could be subject to
security threats — and how Mcity
plans to tackle them.
According to Andre
Weimerskirch, lead author of
the report, who leads Mcity’s
cybersecurity working group and is
also vice president of cybersecurity
for Lear Corp, the scientific and
business communities have not
been paying enough attention to
cybersecurity within the realm of
self-driving cars.
“Cybersecurity is an overlooked
area of research in the development
of autonomous vehicles,”
Weimerskirch said to Michigan
News. “Our tool marks not only
an important early step in solving
these problems, but also presents a
blueprint to effectively identify and
analyze cybersecurity threats and
create effective approaches to make
autonomous vehicle systems safe
and secure.”
In their report, the researchers
examine the potential threats
involved in automated parking.
According to the press release, the
most likely attacks are a mechanic
disabling the range sensors in park-
assist or remote parking in order to
require additional maintenance for
which a driver would have to pay,
and an expert hacker sending a false
signal to your vehicle’s receiver to
turn off remote parking. Both of
these vulnerabilities were given a six
out of 10 on a scale the researchers
created, with zero being the lowest
probability.
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