Mar 08 2026 to Mar 08 2026 11 a.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Poop is a bad word. It is also, depending on who you ask, a home, a weapon, a meal, and a way to save the planet.

In the animal kingdom, dung is serious business. Herbivores use scat the way we use social media. Tigers use it to mark territory. Dung beetles build homes in it and eat it for breakfast. Hoopoes weaponise it. Blue whales poop in quantities that actually help keep our oceans alive. And scientists collect all of it, enthusiastically, in the name of conservation.

Join author Shweta Taneja for a noisy, messy, gloriously disgusting science session on wild animals and what they leave behind.

Warning: you will be grossed out, you will giggle, and you will learn things you cannot unlearn.

Around the World in 50 Sundays is a journey that begins, not with a ticket, but with opening a book. In a city like Bangalore where families are always in motion, the BIC Library hopes to offer stillness and a quiet, welcoming space for both parents and children where reading becomes a shared way of being and not a task.

Every Sunday, we open our doors to invite you into a library that listens; building a rhythm of return, a habit of joy and a new community bound not just by books, but by the weekly ritual of reading together.

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Facilitator

Shweta Taneja
Author
Shweta Taneja is an award-winning author and journalist from India, most known for her bestselling science book for children, They Made What? They Found What? and critically acclaimed fantasy series, Anantya Tantrist Mysteries. Through her works which range from nonfiction to speculative fiction, she tracks the evolving relationship between science, soul and modern society.

She is a finalist in the prestigious French award Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, a Charles Wallace Writing Fellow and has given talks on science and fiction in China, UK and Ireland. Her work has been translated to Chinese, Bengali, French, Romanian, Kannada and Dutch. As a journalist, she writes on deeptech, science and AI for Hindustan Times.

When not writing, she wanders in forests, hikes on trails and eyes birds through binoculars. Find her online with her handle @shwetawrites.