Arundhati is a writer, cultural practitioner, social activist, and traveller. With three decades of experience in the arts and culture, she served as the executive director of India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) between 2013 and 2023. She contributed on advisory boards of the Seagull Foundation for the Arts, Blind with Camera, and Toto Funds the Arts, and continues to do so for The Museum of Art and Photography (MAP), Shomokaleen Protibidhan (a feminist magazine in Bangla), the Solidarity Foundation, Sangama, and Maraa. She volunteers with citizen initiatives that work towards an equitable society; speaks on the arts and philanthropy across international platforms; and writes for various publications. A poet in Bangla, publishing in little magazines since 2010, her first collection of poetry, Oshomoye Phire Esho Nodi Hoye, was published by Lastrada Prakashan in 2023. She consults and offers training programmes for the cultural and not-for-profit sector. She was raised in Asansol and is based in Bengaluru.