Dr. NANDITHA KRISHNA
Dr. Nanditha Krishna is the Honorary Director of the C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation and administers its various constituents:
C.P. Art Centre, Chennai
C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Institute of Indological Research, Chennai
Saraswathi Kendra Learning Centre for Children, Chennai
The Grove School, Chennai
Shakunthala Jagannathan Museum of Folk Art, Kanchipuram
Rangammal Vidyalaya Nursery & Primary School, Kanchipuram
Sir C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Memorial Nursery & Primary School, Kumbakonam
For more information, visit www.cprfoundation.org
She is also the Honorary Director of the C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre, Chennai, a Centre of Excellence set up jointly by the C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation and the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India.
For more information, visit www.cpreec.org
She obtained herPh.D. from the Department of Ancient Indian Culture, University of Bombay, in 1975 on the "Iconography of Vishnu Narayana". She was a Heras Scholar during this period. Earlier, she studied at the Cathedral and John Connon High School, Bombay, and Elphinstone College, University of Bombay.
She also has a degree in French literature, a diploma in Interior Decoration and has studied the Conservation of Cultural Property.
She has specialized in
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Publications on Culture
The Book of Vishnu, Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd., 2001
The VarahishwaraTemple – Damal, Chennai 2001
Balaji Venkateshwara - Lord of Tirumala Tirupati - An Introduction, Vakils, Feffer and Simons Ltd, Mumbai, 2000
Painted Manuscripts of the Sarasvati Mahal Library, Thanjavur Maharaja Serfoji's Sarasvati Mahal Library, Thanjavur, 1994
Folk Arts of Tamilnadu, Chennai, 1994 (reprinted several times)
Madras – Chennai, Chennai, 1994 (reprinted several times)
Naatupura Kalaigal (Tamil), Chennai, 1994 (reprinted several times)
Namadhu Chennai (Tamil), Chennai, 1994 (reprinted several times)
The Arts and Crafts of Tamilnadu, U.S.A., 1992
Ganesha (jointly with Shakunthala Jagannathan), Bombay, 1992 (reprinted several times)
The Art and Iconography of Vishnu-Narayana, D.B. Taraporevala Sons & Co. Pvt. Ltd., Bombay, 1980
Edited
Kanchi, Madras, 1992
Shakti, Madras, 1991
Publications on the Environment
Ecological Traditions of Tamilnadu, Chennai, 1997 (edited)
Understanding Animals - An Activity Book, Chennai, 1990 (several reprints)
The Tree - A Book of Facts and Activities, Chennai, 1989 (several reprints)
Communication Techniques for Environmental Awareness Raising, (several reprints)
Editor of
Eco News (A quarterly magazine of environmental news and articles), Chennai
Indian Journal of Environmental Education (Annual)
Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Indian History and Culture
Fortnightly Column
“Creations” in The New Sunday Express Magazine
Important Keynote and Presidential Addresses
A People's History of India, Presidential Address at the 38th Annual Conference of the Institute of Historical Studies, Calcutta, held at Mother Teresa Women's University, Kodaikanal, November 8, 2001.
Art and Cultural History, Presidential Address, Tamilnadu History Congress, Annamalainagar, 1995
Environment and History, Indira Gandhi Endowment Lecture, Stella Maris College, Chennai, September 9, 1999.
Environment and Culture, Keynote address at “Conference on Cultural Adaptation: the Relationship between Man and Environment”, Centre for Social Development and Management Research, Chennai, August 27, 1999.
Conserving our Natural Resources, “Conference on Land Use, Ecology and Resources”, Association of Geography Teachers, July 13, 1999.
Iconogaphy and Indian Culture, Presidential Address to the Art and Culture Section, Tamilnadu History Congress, 1995
Awards
C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation received the Rani Lady Meyammai Aachi Birthday Commemoration Award, under her Directorship in 2005.
Dr. M. S. Swaminathan Award for Environmental Protection by Rotary Club of Madras (East) and Earth Care Group, 2004
Enabled Woman from Madras Management Association, 2003
C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre received the Indira Gandhi Paryvaran Puraskar, India’s highest environmental award, under her Directorship in 2000
Seva Ratna (from the Centenarian Trust, Chennai), December 1999
Stree Ratna (from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Chennai), March 1998
Outstanding Woman of Asia (from the University Women of Asia), January 1997
President of the Art and Culture Section, Tamilnadu History Congress, 1995
Fellow of the Institute of Social Science Research
Latest Writings
"Wanted - A National Culture Policy", The New Sunday Express, January 6, 2002
"We Owe it to the Future", The New Sunday Express, February 17, 2002
"Protecting the Ecology - A Sacred Duty", The New Sunday Express, March 3, 2002
"Restoring the Old", The New Sunday Express, March 31, 2002
"Rape of the Nilgiris", The New Sunday Express, May 26, 2002
"Government Apathy is Appalling", The New Sunday Express, June 9, 2002
"Does Art have a Social Function?", The New Sunday Express, June 23, 2002
“Teaching History " A Political Agenda", The New Sunday Express, July 21, 2002
"Books to make you weep", The New Sunday Express, August 4, 2002
"Marine Archaeology and the Study of the Past", The New Sunday Express, August 18, 2002
"Are we Civilized", The New Sunday Express, September 1, 2002
"Animals in Indian Art", The New Sunday Express, September 15, 2002
"In the Eyes of the Beholder", The New Sunday Express, September 29, 2002
"The Vanquisher of Mahisha", The New Sunday Express, October 13, 2002
"Images of Religion", The New Sunday Express, October 27, 2002
"Nurturing Nature", The New Sunday Express, November 10, 2002
"The Temples of Angkor", The New Sunday Express, November 24, 2002
"A Tourist's Nightmare", The New Sunday Express, December 8, 2002
"It's Raining Music in Chennai", The New Sunday Express, December 22, 2002
"Where's the water", The New Sunday Express, January 5, 2003
"Discovering Tirupati", The New Sunday Express, January 19, 2003
"The Itihasa Tradition", The New Sunday Express, February 2, 2003
"Raja Ravi Varma - Portrait of an Artist", The New Sunday Express, February 16, 2003
"The Legend of Iraq", The New Sunday Express, March 2, 2003
"Wealth out of Waste", The New Sunday Express, March 16, 2003
"Finding a Past", The New Sunday Express, March 30, 2003
"Demonising the Enemy", The New Sunday Express, April 13, 2003
"Grounded in Wisdom", The New Sunday Express, April 27, 2003
"The Indian Dream Girl", The New Sunday Express, May 11, 2003
"Hunger Then & Now", The New Sunday Express, May 25, 2003
"The Power of One", The New Sunday Express, June 8, 2003
"The Buddha Effect", The New Sunday Express, June 22, 2003
"Did Rama Exist", The New Sunday Express, July 6, 2003
"Prisoners of History" , The New Sunday Express, July 20, 2003
"The Equals of Men" , The New Sunday Express, August 3, 2003
"Immortalised in Art" , The New Sunday Express, August 17, 2003
"Elephantine Irony" , The New Sunday Express, August 31, 2003
"Blood on Our Hands" , The New Sunday Express, September 14, 2003
"Birth of Swadeshi Art" , The New Sunday Express, September 28, 2003
"Who is an Aryan?" , The New Sunday Express, October 26, 2003
"In the Land of Pharaohs" , The New Sunday Express, November 9, 2003
"Abused and Polluted" , The New Sunday Express, November 23, 2003
"Tales of Human Folly" , The New Sunday Express, December 7, 2003
"In Search of a River" , The New Sunday Express, December 21, 2003
"Is anyone Listening?" , The New Sunday Express, January 4, 2004
"Why do rivers die?" , The New Sunday Express, January 18, 2004
"Celebrating the sun" , The New Sunday Express, February 1, 2004
"Cultural policing is bad" , The New Sunday Express, February 15, 2004
"What's your poison?" , The New Sunday Express, March 14, 2004
"Winds of change" , The New Sunday Express, April 4, 2004
"Charity or cheating" , The New Sunday Express, June 27, 2004
“David Turns 500”, The New Sunday Express, September 5, 2004
“Earth @ Rs 100 Crore”, The New Sunday Express, October 3, 2004
“Warrant for Indian Forests”, The New Sunday Express, June 26, 2005
“The Wandering Ganesha”, The New Sunday Express, September 4, 2005
“Endangered”, The New Sunday Express, October 23, 2005