You can describe her as a story digger, story charmer, story gatherer, story extractor, story spotter… Rituparna is anything but just a storyteller! An international storyteller and a TEDx speaker Rituparna is the Founder of Your Story Bag, a Storytelling, Training and Consulting company. She works with listeners, children, adults, organisations, not-for-profits and corporate helping them harness the power of stories.

A former television producer, turned storyteller, Rituparna believes that Storytelling will be the strongest currency in the world. Rituparna sees the world as an inter-connected network of shared stories. Through her work, Rituparna seeks to connect adults and children through storytelling.

She works actively in the education sector, working closely with educators and parents to bring stories in the classrooms, in homes and safe spaces for children. Rituparna also works with individuals, businesses, not-for-profits and corporates helping them harness the power of stories in their business, life and work. From using Stories to create stellar Employee Experiences, creating storied content for business and not-for-profits, to working with entrepreneurs to use stories to market, sell and build their enterprise, to enabling professionals and leaders to use storytelling to make presentations and pitch ideas, Rituparna brings together a diverse understanding of how stories work in the world today.

Rituparna has taught Storytelling and Children’s Literature in Delhi University for five years. She has developed the early years program for Delhi Government Schools, to teach English, Hindi, and monthly themes through stories. Recently, Rituparna has co-developed Storytelling as Pedagogy Manual for CBSE.