Nanditha Krishna
Nanditha Krishna is a historian and an environmentalist, and director of the CPR Institute of Indological Research in Chennai. She has co-written Madras Then Chennai Now (2014)
Books
The Hindu Way of Writing
Both scholarly and simple in his argument, Shashi Tharoor celebrates Indian syncretism
14 March 2018
Books
Woes of a Warrior
The prince who took on the East India Company for the era’s biggest port city
21 February 2018
Books
Lost in the South
Charles Allen’s south Indian journey misses many historical moments
10 January 2018
History
Enlightenment in the Gobi Desert
Amidst the India-China standoff elsewhere, art unites the two countries on the Silk Road. Nanditha Krishna looks at the Grottoes of a Thousand Buddhas to realise how civilisation is a unifying force even in the time of adversity
19 July 2017