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Vaibhav Chauhan | Indian Cultural Bytes

Welcome to the Lopez Design Forum for collaboration series. Our Forum is a bimonthly platform, which allows designers, academia, artists and other professionals to share their work with a vision of cross-disciplinary collaboration. Vaibhav Chauhan is an art conservator, culture aficionado and heritage treasurer. He has devoted the past 9 years of his life contributing to the field as a co-founder of Sahapedia, which is an online knowledge resource on art, culture, and history. He is a qualified chemical engineer who found his passion for art restoration and has been a part of the National Manuscripts Mission by the government. In his talk, he briefly spoke about his events from childhood and visits to his ancestral village, which shaped his inclination for culture and heritage. During his days from National Mission for Manuscripts, while chasing manuscripts from one region to another, he discovered they hold immense knowledge across all verticals of study. Yet, few of us are unaware of the abundant information available. Being a government project of this scale, there were restrictions not to reveal anything about the scripts, which made Chauhan feel curbed and discontented. In 2009, he and his team members from the National Mission for Manuscripts started a one-of-its-kind, free online resource base dedicated to art, culture, and history. Saha means ‘being together’ in Sanskrit and they named this initiative Sahapedia as the team wanted it to be a work of collaborative effort. Its main objective was to spread knowledge without any restriction and fear. Chauhan mentions, during the initial days of starting Sahapedia, they realized that a lot of available information is locked and inaccessible, due to which a major chunk of their time went into convincing the authorities to open up. It was fascinating to witness as he also dived a little into the changing consumer behavior and how reading is shifting its course to short narratives and creative visuals. Due to the changing scenario, Sahapedia also hosts heritage walks in more than 65 cities. The best part is one can enjoy these priceless heritage possessions without any cost. India has always been rich with the amalgamation of diverse cultures and the topic culture in itself shares a very delicate relationship with its people. Chauhan expressed his struggle to maintain a neutral connection because of people’s sensitivity towards one’s culture but he proudly mentions being on a safe page throughout his career. He ended his talk on a very positive and hopeful note, of never stopping to deliver what people love and cherish. Video and Editing by Word of Mouth Media Forum Organised by Lopez Design in collaboration with Nestaway Pvt. Ltd. and Sona Papers.