Fifth Edition – 29th November 2025
Curtain Raiser with Ricky Kej
Ricky Kej
Music Composer with 3 times Grammy Award Winnner, Padmashree Awardee
Benedict Paramanand
Founder – Greenlitfest
Roopa Pai
Author
Reflections from My Travels to Leh and Ladakh
Sujatha Padmanabhan
Author, Member, Kalpavriksh
In the Front Line: Stories From the Field
Arathi Menon
Senior Writer and Editor, Mongabay India
Priti David
Executive Editor, People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI)
Chintan Girish Modi
Literary Critic and Journalist
Island on Edge: Pushing Nicobar Knowingly Into Disaster
Pankaj Sekhsaria
Author, Academic
Sharachchandra Lele
Distinguished Fellow, Forests, Governance and Livelihoods
How AI Will Drive Impactful Environmental Education
Swaroop Madavan
Founder, Parentof
Amlan Shome
Team GLF, Sustainability Professional
Pack that Perished – Nature Film Screening and Quiz by ATREE
Abi Tamim Vanak
Sr. Fellow and Director, Centre for Policy Design
Anuja Malhotra
Policy Manager, Centre for Policy Design, ATREE
Cartoons and Conservation Communication
Rohan Chakravarty
Cartoonist, Artist, Author, The Green Humour Series
How Youth Can Influence The Climate Story
Ishan Shanavas
Author, The Light of Wilder Things: A Teenager’s Search for Nature and Wildlife
Karishma Pejathaya
Student at National Law School of India University
Fiction That Sparks Climate Conversations
Gigi Ganguly
Author, Biopeculiar: Stories of an Uncertain World and One Arm Shorter Than the Other
Sonali Prasad
Journalist and Author, Glass Bottom
Joya John
Assistant Professor of Literature, Krea University
Re-Imagining Greener Bengaluru
Roopa Pai
Author, Becoming Bangalore – Stories That Shaped A Home Town
Deepa Padmanaban
Author, Invisible Housemates and Science Journalist
Ramya Coushik
Writer, Naturalist and Founder, Green Goobe’ Zero Waste Living
Big Book Launch – Fruitful Insights
Prasanna NS
Consultant at ATREE, Bengaluru
Rapid Book Launch – Whispers of the Mangroves
Radhika Suri
Author and Educator
Rapid Book Launch – Leaf People
Chatura Rao
Author, Academic
Rapid Cover Reveal – Nanna Mane Totti Mane
Sandhya Koti
Author
Rapid Book Launch – The Highlands of Yore
Monisha Raman
Author, Team GLF
GLF Honour Book Awards 2025
How New Materials Will Shape India’s Green Transition
Babu Padmanabhan
Founder and MD, STEER World
Gayatri Chauhan
Founder and CEO, BuzzOnEarth + Presentations by Startups
Vishal Mehta
Co-Founder & CEO, unWOOD
Santosh Nagasamy
Co-Founder, Phitons
Prakash Hadimani
General Manager (Advanced Applications) STEER World
AI and Future of Sustainability
Madanmohan Rao
Research Director, YourStory, Co-founder, MXR.world
Kundan Das
Head Sales & BD, Renewable & Nuclear Energy Transition, Common European Energy Data Space (CEEDS)
The Climate Future Rooted in Our Past
Sunanda Sharma
Head of Sustainability, AU Small Finance Bank
Shaping Consumer Consciousness
Sahar Mansoor
Author, Founder and CEO, Bare Necessities
Ramya Coushik
Writer, Naturalist and Founder, Green Goobe’ Zero Waste Living
Manvel Alur
Startup Mentor, Educator, Consultant Climate Adaptation
Sustainability Thinking and the Future of Careers
Santhosh Jayaram
Sustainability Thought Leader, Advisor, Green Literature Festival
Rajeev Peshawaria
Author, Sustainable Sustainability: Why ESG is Not Enough, CEO, Stewardship Asia Centre (SAC), Singapore
Benedict Paramanand
Author, Founder, Green Literature Festival, Editor, SustainabilityNext, Co-founder, BizLitFest
