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Eka Cultural Resources and Research was set up in 2009 to address the increasing need for a professional organisation within the culture and heritage industry. Eka aims at providing professional services that add quality and excellence in this field. This nascent and niche sector has the potential to employ a large number of people and significantly increase revenue for cultural institutions. We identify and create key linkages resulting in an increase in both tangible and intangible cultural activity.
Eka prides itself on being able to create content with tailored solutions for a diverse range of cultural activities. The company specializes in planning and creating archives, museums and cultural complexes. Eka also provides assistance in research, documentation and publication for a wide range of cultural industries. We scenograph & create content for arts festivals, seminars, and symposiums, and help design exhibitions. Our services extend to advising art collectors on their material object acquisitions and the management of their collections. We also serve as a nodal agency for the promotion of cultural tourism in India with a focus on indigenous culture and the performing arts.
Team
PRAMOD KUMAR KG
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Pramod Kumar KG is the co-founder of Eka Archiving Services, India’s first museum and cultural advisory firm. He has curated shows and lectured extensively worldwide while working with a vast range of artefacts that vary greatly in their materiality. As an independent researcher and a published author, he has made contributions to several edited volumes, journals, magazines and books. He is the founder director of the Jaipur Literature Festival and was the co-director of Mountain Echoes, the Bhutan Literature Festival till 2019.
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DEEPTHI SASIDHARAN
DIRECTOR
Deepthi Sasidharan is an art historian and curator and her academic qualifications in museology provide a comprehensive approach to managing projects. She works on heritage and museum projects across India with the Government, private and corporate clients. Under her, Eka has executed projects that have been path-breaking in India, including several museums, seminal exhibitions and the creation of archives like those for Kalakshetra in Chennai, City Palace in Udaipur and Tata Trusts in Mumbai.
MOUSHUMI CHATTERJI
LEAD STRATEGIST
Moushumi Chatterji, Museologist and Cultural Heritage Practitioner, has 18 years of experience in the field of museography, heritage planning and management. Committed towards cultural stewardship she brings together her passion and skill to engage in projects central to cultural dialogues. She has worked for leading international, government and private organisations in areas of cultural interpretation, Modern Art, creative industries, safeguarding cultural and natural heritage. These cross-disciplinary projects, with World Bank Group, Asian Development Bank, ICOMOS, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, DAG, Eka Archiving Services, has motivated her to meaningfully engage in areas of social and cultural inclusion by means of democratized access in promoting and managing art and cultural and natural heritage.
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ANITA JACOB KOSHY
SR. MANAGER-COLLECTION MANAGEMENT, ADMINISTRATION & TRAINING
Anita’s area of interest and professional practice lies in collection management – focusing primarily on museum documentation systems and collection care. In 2006, she was nominated by the US Ambassador to visit the United States on the US State Department’s International Visitor’s Leadership Program (IVLP) that facilitated her to officially visit premier public and private museums, cultural institutions across five states to study and observe their collection management systems and storage facilities.
At Eka, Anita monitors projects associated with documenting art collections: managing them in accordance with international museum standards and practices. She also advises the management of collection databases once collections are digitised; through the formulation of procedural manuals and writing policy documents. She also plans, implements and custom trains Eka staff in two areas: documenting art collections and records management.
Publications: The Crescent of the Deccan – The Asaf Jahi Dynasty, Nizams’ Jewellery Exhibition Catalogue, Salar Jung Museum, 2005 and The Camera’s Beloved – Marg Magazine, Vol 1, No 61, Sept 2009
ANKITA CHUGH
MANAGER – OPERATIONS (DELHI)
Ankita has a graduate degree in History from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, as well as a Masters in History, with a specialisation in Modern Indian History, from University of Delhi and a Masters in the History and Culture of Fashion from London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London. Ankita has an interest in textile and costume history and is interested in the relationship between issues of clothing for men, masculinity and culture in 18th century colonial India. She also has a background in retail, research and analysis.
Ankita currently manages and administers multiple projects across North India and also overseas various aspects associated with research and curatorial responsibilities.
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JERRIN GEORGE
CONSERVATION ARCHITECT
Jerrin George has a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the National Institute of Technology, and a Masters in Architectural Conservation from the University of Edinburgh. She has worked on several conservation projects in Scotland and India. Jerrin has gathered experience through a wide range of projects including research, community development, building conservation, urban revitalization, conservation management planning, site interpretation and adaptive reuse of historic buildings. Her interest lies in the interaction between the existing built fabric and new introductions into the urban environment, and recognizes strategic adaptation of built environment as a sustainable approach to bringing a balance between the two. She also has a keen interest in exploring heritage as an expression of society and cultural place-making and the challenges and opportunities that lie in accommodating social context in heritage conservation.
At Eka, Jerrin worked on the Nepal Architecture Archives at Kathmandu in 2017, documenting and archiving the core collection, and currently works on multiple architectural conservation related projects across India and Bhutan.
DR. TEJAL RUIKAR
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE & CONTENT WRITER
Tejal Ruikar is an archaeologist specializing in artefact management from the pre-historic and proto-historic periods of India. She has completed her Ph.D. in Archaeology from Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute, Pune. Tejal has participated in excavations in Farmana (Haryana), Kotada Bhadli (Gujarat) and in Brantford (Canada).
Following her Ph.D., Tejal has pursued certificate courses from internationally recognized institutes. She has completed courses from Smithsonian Museum and Harvard University, published articles in national and international journals such as Antiquity Project Gallery, and presented research papers at national conferences. In addition, she has worked on the National Mission of Monuments and Antiquities project at the Sharma Centre for Heritage Education (at the behest of the Archaeological Survey of India), and the Discovery Gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum (Canada).
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PARIMAL MANDAL
OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR
Parimal is a Commerce graduate from Delhi University. After completing computer classes in Basic and Web Designing, he worked as a home tutor, teaching Primary, and Secondary, levels for a decade. Currently he helms administrative responsibilities at Eka.
TSERING CHOSDOL
ARCHIVIST
Tsering graduated in Buddhist Philosophy and also pursued an Acharya Degree (equivalent to a Master’s degree) in the same field from the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, Varanasi. She also holds a Diploma in Heritage Site Management and Scientific Conservation from Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune- a degree offered in collaboration with INTACH, NRLC and the National Museum Institute (National Museum, New Delhi).
Tsering is currently pursuing an MPhil in Archaeology and Ancient Indian History and Culture (AIHC) at the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute Pune. Her research is focused on “A comparative Study of the Development of Stupa Architecture in Ladakh”. As a student of archaeology, she has also participated in various excavations, including one held in Nagardhan in 2018.
Tsering’s interests lie in archaeology of Buddhism, heritage site management and conservation, as well as Buddhist philosophy.
SAMEER
OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR ASSISTANT
Sameer began his journey as a Studio Assistant at Printer’s Devil, a Delhi-based printmaking studio. With Printer’s Devil, he has gained an exposure in the field of arts and cultural heritage while working on a wide range of photographs and negatives owned by various cultural institutions. He was trained by Mr. Ishan Tankha, a renowned photographer and has assisted him in several exhibitions. He also has experience of working in documentary cinema. He has been working as a commercial photographer and is now interested in working with heritage collections. Being an avid traveller, he also has a keen interest in travel photography.
ANUJ MAHOTRA
JR. ARCHIVIST
Anuj graduated from MS University, Baroda with a B. Sc in Textile and Apparel Design. An artist at heart, his passion has led to projects with the National Crafts Museum & Hastkala Academy, among several others. While at the Devi Art Foundation he worked on an archival project on the Saris of India. Anuj is also a textile designer, using his expertise with various homegrown handloom brands and artisans to design textiles with a focus on interventions in design elements. He loves intricacy, patterns, and strives hard to create profound stories in textiles.