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.