Jun 07 2025 to Jun 07 2025 11 a.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

A fun and interactive storytelling session inspired by the children’s book So Many Leaves by Harini Nagendra and Seema Mundoli. Through stories and hands-on activities, young participants will explore the shapes, textures, and colors of leaves.

Designed for curious young minds and budding nature enthusiasts, the session encourages exploration and discovery of the natural world.

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This event is part of BIC’s programmes for Environment Day 2025 titled The Earth Remembers: Stories of Justice and Resilience. This year’s Environment Day gathering centres on the people at the frontlines of ecological change, communities whose lives are entangled with the land, the waters, and the skies, and who carry not only the weight of loss but also the seeds of resilience. Rather than viewing the environment as separate from society, we listen to stories where the two are inseparable.

Facilitators

Harini Nagendra
Director, Research Centre & School of Climate Change & Sustainability, Azim Premji University
Harini Nagendra is Director of Research Centre, and Director, School of Climate Change and Sustainability, at Azim Premji University. Her work focuses on urban ecology, forest conservation and climate change amongst other themes.

She is a well-known public speaker and writer on issues of urban sustainability in India. Her books include Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present and Future; Cities and Canopies: Trees of Indian Cities; So Many Leaves, and Shades of Blue: Connecting the Drops in India’s Cities. She also writes the acclaimed Bangalore Detectives Club series, a set of historical mysteries set in 1920s Bangalore.

Seema Mundoli
Faculty, Azim Premji University
Seema Mundoli is faculty at Azim Premji University, where she has taught in the post-graduate programmes and currently teaches environment and sustainability courses in the undergraduate programme. She has more than 20 years of experience working in the areas of conservation, advocacy issues of indigenous communities, and more recently on role of nature in cities, urban sustainability, and climate change. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and appeared in popular press. Her publications include the co-authored books (with Harini Nagendra) Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities (Penguin India 2019), which won the Publishing Next’s Printed Book of the Year Award and was on the Green Literature Festival Honour List, So Many Leaves (Pratham Publications 2021) and Shades of Blues: Connecting the Drops in India’s Cities (Penguin India 2023).

Prachi Gupta
Faculty, School of Climate Change & Sustainability, Azim Premji University
Prachi Gupta is faculty at the School of Climate Change and Sustainability, Azim Premji University. She holds a PhD in Forest Botany from the Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun, India, where her research was focused on the wood anatomy of Indian oaks. She is interested in climate change education, curriculum development, and understanding the resilience of urban trees to air pollution.