In Dec 2013, Ruchira founded ThinkArts, inspired by the integral role that the arts played in the lives of her two homeschooled daughters. Ruchira also works as an independent consultant and has designed activity trails for young visitors at Museums, led workshops for teachers, facilitated participatory art projects with young people and created DreamScape, a sensorial exhibition for toddlers. She curated the annual literary festival for children, Junior Kolkata Literary Meet for 5 years since its inception.
In Sep 2018, she took up an additional role as Deputy Director, ARThink South Asia. She is also a tutor for Strategic Planning in the Arts. Since July 2020, Ruchira is the Artistic Director of Arthshila and looks after programming at their multi arts centres currently running in Ahmedabad & Santiniketan and coming up soon in Delhi & Patna.
Participant at Salzburg Global Seminar, 2022
Member of Regional // Regional Alliance by Asia Link, 2022
Participant at TPAM Yokohama, 2020
Grantee for Five Million Incidents, a project by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi and Kolkata in collaboration with Raqs Media Collective, 2019
International Participant – Australia Arts Leadership Programme, 2017-18
Participating artist at Chitpur Local Second Edition by Hamdasti, 2018
Participant at International Visitors Programme of NRW KULTURsekretariat, 2017
Global Fellow at ISPA (International Society for Performing Arts), 2016 & 2018
Participant at ThinkArts Residency hosted by Imaginate in Edinburgh, 2016
Fellow for the ARThink South Asia Fellowship 2015-16.
Participant at the Atelier for Young Festival Managers, Edinburgh - April 2014.
Participation in conferences and webinars
Arts and Leadership during COVID-19 in India and Wales – 2021
ISPA Virtual Congress – 2021
Webinar at Rangashankara’s AHA Festival – 2021
Wee Festival Conference - 2021
Theatre for Young Audiences Forum by ASSITEJ Pakistan - 2020
NAIDOC Week in India: Creative Conversations – 2020
FIAE Conference, Goa - 2019
International Teaching Artists Conference, New York - 2018
Past Engagements
In Sep 2018, she took up an additional role as Deputy Director, ARThink South Asia. She is also a tutor for Strategic Planning in the Arts. Since July 2020, Ruchira is the Artistic Director of Arthshila and looks after programming at their multi arts centres currently running in Ahmedabad & Santiniketan and coming up soon in Delhi & Patna.
- Director of Arts, British Council India - since 2023
- Artistic Director, Arthshila - since 2020
- Deputy Director, ARThink South Asia (ATSA) - since 2018
- Tutor, Strategic Planning in the Arts, for short courses by ATSA - since 2018
- Founder, Director, ThinkArts, since 2013
- Curator of the Junior Kolkata Literary Meet , 2017-2021
- Director, Pickle Factory Dance Foundation,2018 - 2021
Participant at Salzburg Global Seminar, 2022
Member of Regional // Regional Alliance by Asia Link, 2022
Participant at TPAM Yokohama, 2020
Grantee for Five Million Incidents, a project by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi and Kolkata in collaboration with Raqs Media Collective, 2019
International Participant – Australia Arts Leadership Programme, 2017-18
Participating artist at Chitpur Local Second Edition by Hamdasti, 2018
Participant at International Visitors Programme of NRW KULTURsekretariat, 2017
Global Fellow at ISPA (International Society for Performing Arts), 2016 & 2018
Participant at ThinkArts Residency hosted by Imaginate in Edinburgh, 2016
Fellow for the ARThink South Asia Fellowship 2015-16.
Participant at the Atelier for Young Festival Managers, Edinburgh - April 2014.
Participation in conferences and webinars
Arts and Leadership during COVID-19 in India and Wales – 2021
ISPA Virtual Congress – 2021
Webinar at Rangashankara’s AHA Festival – 2021
Wee Festival Conference - 2021
Theatre for Young Audiences Forum by ASSITEJ Pakistan - 2020
NAIDOC Week in India: Creative Conversations – 2020
FIAE Conference, Goa - 2019
International Teaching Artists Conference, New York - 2018
Past Engagements
- Festival Manager, Rabindra Utsav, 2010-2014
- Publicity & Programming Coordinator, Ranan Performance Collective, 2009 - 2013
- Volunteer & Mentoring Programme Coordinator, India Literacy Project, 2005 - 2008
- Various roles at SPIC MACAY, 1998 to 2005
