Mar 21, 2021
Dr Nanditha Krishna is an eminent historian, environmentalist, writer, and scholar of ancient Indian culture. She established the CP Art Centre and Shakunthala Art Gallery in Chennai and the Shakunthala Jagannathan Museum of Folk Art in Kanchipuram. Currently, she is the President of the CP Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation and Director of the CPR Institute of Indological Research in Chennai. Dr Nanditha Krishna was responsible for reviving the painting traditions of the Kurumba tribes, pottery traditions of Kota women, and traditional drawing and painting in Mamallapuram; and for the introduction of Tamil folk art forms in schools. She has also been documenting India’s ecological heritage traditions. She has authored 23 books on Indian art, culture, religion and the environment, including Life Lessons from Mahavira; Hinduism and Nature; Sacred Plants of India; Sacred Animals of India (Penguin); The Arts and Crafts of Tamilnadu (Mapin), besides several research papers and po