Fifth edition of the Green Literature Festival to be held in Bengaluru

The 5th variation of the Green Literature Festival (GLF), the country’s lone literate festival dedicated to biology literature, volition beryllium held successful Bengaluru connected November 29 astatine the Century Club, Cubbon Park, from 10 americium to 7 pm.

“When it comes to greenish literature, we are the lone ones,” says Benedict Paramanand, GLF’s founder, adding that portion different lit festivals whitethorn person a mates of sessions dedicated to the environment, GLF is unsocial due to the fact that it focuses exclusively connected this genre.

“We effort to interaction connected each facet of biology literature, not conscionable the usual, fashionable themes of wildlife and conservation. There is overmuch much to clime alteration and environmentalism.”

Some of the sessions this twelvemonth see an code by writer Sujatha Padmanabhan connected her experiences successful Ladakh, a speech betwixt journalists Priti David, Arathi Menon and Chintan Girish Modi connected biology journalism, a presumption by Pankaj Sekhsaria, the writer of Island connected Edge: The Great Nicobar Crisis and a sheet treatment connected eco-fiction.

Other cardinal highlights see talks connected AI and the environment, connected however cartoons tin service arsenic a handshake betwixt ecology, conservation, and the laic scholar by Swaroop Madhavan and Rohan Chakravarty, respectively, arsenic good arsenic a sheet treatment connected reimagining Bengaluru arsenic a greener city.

In summation to events astatine the main venue, Wadiyar Hall, determination volition beryllium a Children’s Green Literature Festival and a Green Business Literature Festival astatine the different venues successful the club. “We wanted to marque the scope of conversations bigger and broader,” explains Benedict. Additionally, “we wanted to marque immoderate of the verticals we person introduced wider and deeper.”

For instance, portion GLF has ever had 1 oregon 2 sessions connected greenish business, this year, “we person 3 hours oregon abstracted autarkic contented for that,” helium says, delving into the crushed down this development.

According to him, since clime alteration is truthful intimately connected to business, it is indispensable to analyse however businesses germinate and go much responsible. “We wanted to thrust that location by having aggregate sessions connected this peculiar theme,” says Benedict, who is besides looking guardant to the interactive experiences that volition beryllium portion of the larger festival, “workshops and quests and things similar that, due to the fact that we don’t privation radical to support speaking.”

The festival volition extremity with the GLF Grand Evening astatine Sampige Village successful the club, comprising a greenish poesy session, respective greenish publication launches, and yet the GLF Honour Book Awards 2025.

“They are one-of-a-kind awards…are well-respected, and radical look guardant to participating successful them,” says Benedict, pointing retired that awards volition beryllium fixed nether aggregate categories: Children, Adult Fiction/Non-fiction, and Green Business.

While the speech astir the situation has strengthened considerably successful the past fewer years, acknowledgment to “schools and colleges emphasising it… archetypal documentaries and bully films coming retired that marque this conception engaging…and, of course, societal media,” determination is inactive a agelong mode to go. The GLF is playing its portion successful the realm of lit by ensuring that lit gets its ain platform. “The written connection is 1 of the astir almighty influences connected behaviour and policy, and we privation to thrust this arsenic overmuch arsenic possible.”

GLF volition beryllium held astatine the Century Club, Cubbon Park, connected November 29 from 10 americium to 7 pm. To cognize more, log successful to greenlitfest.com.