Rustom Bharucha is a writer, cultural critic and dramaturg based in Kolkata, India. He is an International Fellow of the British Academy, UK, and a retired Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies which he taught in the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, between 2012-2018. Trained as a dramaturg at the Yale School of Drama between 1977-1980, he received his doctorate from Yale in Dramatic Criticism in 1981. Over the years he has published a number of books including Theatre and the World (1993), The Question of Faith (1993), Chandralekha: Woman/Dance/Resistance (1995), In the Name of the Secular (1999), The Politics of Cultural Practice (2000), Rajasthan: An Oral History (2003), Another Asia: Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin (2006) and Terror and Performance (2014). The last publication was researched while he was A Fellow at the International Research Center/Interweaving Performance Cultures in Berlin, Germany, between 2010-2012. More recently, he has published Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments (2021), co-edited with Paula Richman, and The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic through Photography, Performance and Public Culture (2022), which has been nominated as an Outstanding Title by CHOICE. A former advisor of the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development in the Netherlands, he has served as a consultant for Ford Foundation in 2007 on its interdisciplinary and multicultural Artography project. Between 2007-2009 he worked as the Project Director of Arna-Jharna: The Desert Museum of Rajasthan and was the Festival Director of the Ramayana Festival at the Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Research in Puducherry between 2010-2011. Of late he has been conducting dramaturgy workshops, most recently at SP Escola de Teatro in São Paulo, Brazil, and will be conducting the forthcoming Dance Dramaturgies workshop in Chennai in March 2025.