Thodur Madabusi Krishna is a Carnatic music vocalist, writer, and activist. He has championed a number of causes connected to the environment, the caste system, communalism, religious reform, reform of social practices, and so on. He has been published in most leading Indian newspapers, such as The Indian Express, The Hindu, and Hindustan Times, etc. He received the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2016 and the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration in 2017.