diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 4e92e6d0..4e4c4ed4 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ JianXiong Zhou <zhoujianxiong2@gmail.com>
 Joao Paulo Magalhaes <joaoppmagalhaes@gmail.com>
 Jussi Knuuttila <jussi.knuuttila@gmail.com>
 Kaito Udagawa <umireon@gmail.com>
+Kishan Kumar <kumar.kishan@outlook.com>
 Lei Xu <eddyxu@gmail.com>
 Matt Clarkson <mattyclarkson@gmail.com>
 Maxim Vafin <maxvafin@gmail.com>
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 457e0ea4..c59134b9 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ JianXiong Zhou <zhoujianxiong2@gmail.com>
 Joao Paulo Magalhaes <joaoppmagalhaes@gmail.com>
 Jussi Knuuttila <jussi.knuuttila@gmail.com>
 Kai Wolf <kai.wolf@gmail.com>
+Kishan Kumar <kumar.kishan@outlook.com>
 Kaito Udagawa <umireon@gmail.com>
 Lei Xu <eddyxu@gmail.com>
 Matt Clarkson <mattyclarkson@gmail.com>
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d363095a..c6a9caf2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -13,6 +13,39 @@ IRC channel: https://freenode.net #googlebenchmark
 
 [Additional Tooling Documentation](docs/tools.md)
 
+
+## Installation Guide
+
+For Ubuntu and Debian Based System
+
+First make sure you have git and cmake installed (If not please install it)
+
+```
+sudo apt-get install git
+sudo apt-get install cmake
+```
+
+Now, let's clone the repository and build it
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/google/benchmark.git
+cd benchmark
+mkdir build
+cd build
+cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE
+make
+```
+
+We need to install the library globally now
+
+```
+sudo make install
+```
+
+Now you have google/benchmark installed in your machine 
+Note: Don't forget to link to pthread library while building
+
+
 ## Example usage
 ### Basic usage
 Define a function that executes the code to be measured.