Nanditha Krishna

Nanditha Krishna (born 1951) is an Indian author, environmentalist and educationist. She was recognised by the Government of India who gave her one of the first Nari Shakti Awards in 2015, the highest award for women in India. She is the president of the C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation in Chennai and an author of several books.

She was born in 1951 and was known as Nanditha Jagannathan.

She is the great granddaughter of Dr C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar, lawyer and Advocate General of Madras Presidency, Dewan of Travancore state and Vice-chancellor of Annamalai and University and Travancore University. She is the daughter of Shakunthala Jagannathan, Deputy Director-General and Regional Director of Tourism, Government of India, Mumbai, and author of the best-seller Hinduism – An Introduction  and Ganesha, and A.R. Jagannathan, Vice-chairman and managing director of Tata Projects Limited. Her maternal grandfather was C. R. Pattabhiraman, former Minister of Law, Government of India.^{[citation needed]}

She studied at Cathedral and John Connon High School, Bombay, graduated from Elphinstone College, Mumbai in 1970 and obtained her Ph.D. on The Iconography of Vishnu Narayana from the University of Bombay in 1975 and was a Heras scholar during the period of her research.

She received an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from Vidyasagar University, West Bengal in 2016.

She was the anchor and presenter of the popular Bombay based "Magic Lamp" TV series from 1972 to 1974.

She moved to Chennai after her marriage in 1974 and founded C.P. Art Centre, Chennai's first gallery for traditional arts and crafts in 1978

In 1981 she was appointed Director of the C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation (CPRAF), and elected president in 2013. The Foundation is headquartered in Chennai, India, on Eldams Road at "The Grove", the ancestral home of the C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar family, where all the institutions mentioned below are situated