It is a woman's name of Hindu origin. It means beautiful woman, splendid or who shines like a jewel. Name of a BBC journalist, whose full name is Ritula Harakhchand Shah. It may even present the possibility that they ask for ritual and it is a typing error. He was born in Barnet, north London.
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.