About the author
Dr Nanditha Krishna is a historian, environmentalist and writer based in Chennai,
with a PhD in Ancient Indian Culture. She has been Director, Professor and Research
Guide for the PhD programme of the C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar Institute of Indological
Research, and is currently the President of the C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation.
She is a prolific writer who has authored books such as Balaji-Venkateshwara,
Ganesha, Hinduism and Nature, Sacred Plants of India and Sacred Animals of India
among others, and research papers and popular articles on Indian art, religion and
the environment. She is the winner of several awards including Nari Shakti Puraskar,
Stree Ratna and Outstanding Woman of Asia, and has a DLitt (Honoris causa) from
Vidyasagar University, West Bengal.
