She received the Sangeet Natak Academi award for 2022 in Mohiniyattam from president Murmu.
[1] Krishnan hails from Durgapur, Bengal but after her post-graduate studies in Kerala, she settled in Thrissur.
So she did a second under-graduate degree, B.Music from Shantiniketan in Kathakali, Manipuri and Rabindra Sangeeth, Viswa Bharathi University.
[2] In 1992, she moved to Thrissur and did her post-graduation at Kerala Kalamandiram under Bharati Shivaji and Kalamandalam Sugandhi.
[4] In September 2013, she performed at Kochi in an event organised by the Bank Employee's cultural wing ‘BEAME’ in association with Ernakulam Karayogam.