Eka highlights need for professionals to change cultural entrepreneurship

The team has worked on a diverse set of projects, ranging from private museums such as the Amrapali Museum in Jaipur and the Kasturbhai Lalbhai Museum in Ahmedabad

Deepthi Sasidharan is a fund of fascinating stories. Not surprisingly, since she is director of the well-regarded — and possibly unique — heritage consultancy, Eka Resources, which she co-founded with Pramod Kumar K G in 2009. Sasidharan recalls one of their first projects, at Mandir Palace in Jaisalmer, for which they were documenting hundreds of swords. “We had put the swords on the floor. One of the palace retainers pulled me aside and said that, in Rajput culture, a sword is a symbol of pride and is worshipped. It should not be put on the floor,” she reminisces. It’s a