Third Edition – 25th November 2023

Inaugural Keynote

Dr Ullas Karanth
Founder and Emeritus Director, Centre for Wildlife Studies

Mega Mammal Myopia: Looking Past The BIG stars of Conservation

Sejal Mehta
Author, Superpowers on the Shore

Mahesh Rangarajan
Environmental Historian & Author

Rohan Arthur
Scientist, Nature Conservation Foundation

Kartik Shanker
Ecologist & Writer

Grassroots to Green Shoots: The Changing Face of Green Entrepreneurship

Prof Anil Gupta
Social Sector Activist, former Faculty at IIM Ahmedabad, Author of Grassroots Innovation: Minds on the Margin are not Marginal Minds

Nagaraja Prakasam
Mentor at IIMB NSRCEL and Author of Back to Bharat – In Search of a Sustainable Future

Benedict Paramanand
Founder, GLF

Other People, Other Places: Exploring Otherisation in Cinematic Storytelling

Devashish Makhija
Filmmaker and Writer

Landscapes of Loss: Livelihoods in Peril

Stephen Alter
Author

Aparajita Datta
Scientist at the Nature Conservation Foundation

Yuvan Aves
Writer, Naturalist, Educator and Activist

Meghaa Gupta
Head, Young People’s Programme, GLF

The Business of Green Books

Anita Mani
Publisher, Indian Pitta Books, an imprint of Juggernaut

Sujatha Padmanabhan
Member, Kalpavriksh

R Sivapriya
Publisher, Bloomsbury India

Vidya Mani
Head, General Fiction and Nonfiction List, GLF

When Pictures Speak: Telling Green Stories through Graphic Narratives

Amruta Patil
Graphic Novelist & Author

Priya Kuriyan
Writer, Illustrator & Animation Filmmaker

We, the Children and How We Read

Dhwani Nagendra Suri
Grade 10, Prakriya School, Bangalore

Vihaan Srivastava
Grade 8, The Future Kid’s School, Hyderabad

Meghaa Gupta
Head, Young People’s Programme, GLF

2023 GLF Honour Book Awards

Vidya Mani
Head, General Fiction and Nonfiction List, GLF

Meghaa Gupta
Head, Young People’s Programme, GLF

Benedict Paramanand
Founder, GLF

Santhosh Jayaram
Global Head – Sustainability, HCL Technologies Limited

A Clay Story

Priya Muthukumar
Storyteller and Educator, Founder, Storipur

Book Launches