Austin Bollywood was started by Ruchika Dias in 2009 because of her passion for Bollywood dance & music. Ruchika Dias grew up in India has been trained in Indian classical music and dance. Ruchika Dias also has an MS degree in Computer Engineering and an MBA degree both from the University of Texas at Austin.

Ruchika has been featured on Houston’s Fox 26 News channel, Houston’s ABC13 News channel, TV-Asia Houston’s Indo American newspaper, Houston’s Voice of Asia newspaper, News 8 Austin’s “Fit for Friday” show, KEYE/CBS’s “We Are Austin” show, University of Texas’s “Daily Texan” newspaper, Austin’s Community Impact newspaper, “To Do Austin” magazine and many more.