RITULA Hindu female given name , known in the West by Jain journalist Ritula Shah ( n . 1967) , bbc radio announcer . As an observer of the jain dharma religion, one of the oldest and most continuous on the planet, she is a renunciationist (abstinence from sexual pleasures among other renunciations) Ritula Shah has interviewed as a presenter various people who have been or are involved with renunciation.