{"id":106955,"date":"2025-10-28T19:26:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=106955"},"modified":"2025-10-28T19:26:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:56:49","slug":"art-world-looks-glamourous-but-its-a-grind-that-needs-management-of-resources-and-people-ruchira-das","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=106955","title":{"rendered":"Art world looks glamourous, but it\u2019s a grind that needs management of resources and people : Ruchira Das"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goa Khabar : Balancing her passion for the arts and pursuing a rather staid career in accountancy, Ruchira Das, a leading arts professional in the country, said that the mere act of volunteering at cultural events was something she found \u201cfar more joyful than numbers and audits\u201d and proved to be a starting point for her for a career in the arts.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recounting a memorable anecdote during her MOG Sunday talk at the Museum of Goa, Pilerne, titled, \u2018Everything You Can Imagine: A 25-Year Journey in the Arts\u2019, Das said that she even had to arrange for a barber for famous\u00a0shehnai\u00a0maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan before a performance at the last minute.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery experience was a lesson in problem-solving, empathy and humour,\u201d Das said in her talk, while describing the early years of producing concerts for maestros such as world-renowned sitar player Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Bismillah Khan, and the unpredictability that came with it,\u00a0 from managing last-minute travel crises to finding a barber for Ustadji before a show.<\/p>\n

But she also said that volunteering for such events helped her start a career in the domain of the arts. \u201cI realised I had stumbled into something far more joyful than numbers and audits,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Das, who traced her 25-year journey through India\u2019s cultural landscape from her beginnings as a chartered accountant to founding and leading ThinkArts, and holding key roles at ARThink South Asia, Arthshila, and British Council India, also credited the voluntary cultural movement SPIC MACAY in Kolkata, whose mission is \u2018to have every child experience the inspiration and mysticism embodied in Indian and world heritage\u2019 for reshaping her career and outlook.<\/p>\n

Das spoke about creating the memorable ThinkArts event in 2013 to bring arts experiences to children, inspired by her daughters\u2019 engagement with the festivals she managed. \u201cIf we could take our children to the arts, why not bring the arts to all the children?\u201d she reflected. ThinkArts went on to collaborate internationally and design arts-based education models across India.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on her leadership across arts organisations, Das discussed the balance between\u00a0creative vision and administrative rigour. \u201cThe arts world often looks glamorous from the\u00a0outside,\u201d she said, \u201cbut behind every project are people navigating limited resources, endless\u00a0coordination and a shared love for what they do.\u201d She added that while empathy and communication are as crucial to the arts as funding or infrastructure, the real challenge lies in sustaining human connection across creative ecosystems.<\/p>\n

Das reminded audiences that the strength of the arts lies not in funding or infrastructure alone\u00a0but in people and their collective imagination. The session closed with a reflection on how\u00a0creativity, collaboration, and community continue to define India\u2019s cultural future and how\u00a0sustaining imagination remains both an artistic and civic responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goa Khabar : Balancing her passion for the arts and pursuing a rather staid career in accountancy, Ruchira Das, a leading arts professional in the country, said that the mere act of volunteering at cultural events was something she found \u201cfar more joyful than numbers and audits\u201d and proved to be a starting point for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":106956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,155],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-106955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6","category-155","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106957,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106955\/revisions\/106957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}