Award-winning historian, environmentalist and writer, Nanditha Krishna is a Professor at the University of Madras. She is Director of the C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation and CPR Environmental Education Centre, a member of the Governing Body of the Blue Cross of India, Chennai; Editor of ECONEWS and the Indian Journal of Environmental Education and publisher of the Journal of Indian History and Culture. She has written several books, including Sacred Animals of India.