10:00 am to 10:15 am

Inaugural and Welcome
Benedict Paramanand, Founder, Green Literature Festival, Prolific Author

10:15 am to 10:45 am

Reflections From My Travels to Leh and Ladakh
Sujatha Padmanaban, Author, Member, Kalpavriksh

10:45 am to 11:30 am

In the Front Line: Stories From the Field
Arathi Menon, Senior Writer and Editor, Mongabay India
Priti David, Executive Editor, PARI Network
Host – Chintan Girish Modi, Literary Critic and Journalist

11:30 am to 11:45 am

Tea Break

11:45 am to 12:30 pm

Island on Edge: Pushing Nicobar Knowingly Into Disaster
Pankaj Sekhsaria, Author, Academic

12:30 pm to 1:00 pm

How AI Helps Parents and Students Drive Climate Action
Swaroop Madhavan, Founder, Parentof

1:00 pm to 1:40 pm

Lunch

1:40 pm to 2:00 pm

Quiz

2:00 pm to 2:30 pm

Cartoons and Conservation Communication
Rohan Chakravarty, Cartoonist, Artist, Author, The Green Humour Series

2:30 pm to 3:00 pm

How Youth Can Influence Climate Story
Ishaan Shanavas, Author, The Light of Wilder Things: A Teenager’s Search for Nature and Wildlife

3:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Nature in Focus Film – The Last Frontier: An Ode to the Resilient Mangroves
Presented by Rohit Varma, Co-founder, Nature in Focus, Brand Strategist, Filmmaker, Podcast Host

3:30 pm to 3:45 pm

Tea Break

3:45 pm to 4:30 pm

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
Host – Joya John, Assistant Professor of Literature, Krea University

4:30 pm to 5:15 pm

Re-Imagining Greener Bengaluru
Roopa Pai, Author, Becoming Bangalore – Stories That Shaped A Home Town
Ramya Coushik, Writer, Naturalist and Founder, Green Goobe Zero Waste Living
Deepa Padmanaban, Author, Rewilding India and Invisible Housemates and Science Journalist