Dr. Mukund, prof at Rochester Institute of Technology,  was in Woodlands on saturday 2/11/2017. Here is his bio – https://www.rit.edu/kgcoe/staff/pr-mukund. Here is his fascinating talk about the state of ancient Indian manuscripts.

*audio removed on request*

He has worked on projects to digitally restore ancient hindu manuscripts that are crumbling in various temples. They restored 750 yr old manuscripts at Udupi, Karnataka – https://www.rit.edu/news/newsevents/2006/Oct01/story.php?file=t1 . This was the original dictated by Madhva himself to Hrishikesh Tirtha