Book Launch and Neighbourhood Walk: Be a Neighbourhood Naturalist | Indiranagar | September 27th, 4 PM

Join us at Champaca Bookstore, Indiranagar for the launch of Be a Neighbourhood Naturalist. We'll start with a walk around the neighbourhood led by the book's creators -  spotting wildlife, trying creative activities from the book and discovering the magic of everyday nature. 

After the walk, we’ll return to Champaca for a conversation with Labonie Roy, Suhel Quader, and Vena Kapoor. We'll discuss their book - a beautifully crafted guide that invites you to slow down, look closer, and discover the wonders of the living world right in your neighbourhood. Blending creative experiments with stunning illustrations, this book offers fresh ways to reimagine the natural world just outside your door.

Here are the event details:

Date: 27th September, Saturday

Time: 4:00 pm

Venue: Champaca Bookstore, Indiranagar, followed by a walk in the neighbourhood around the store

Fee: Rs. 499/- ( fully redeemable against the book)

About the Book: 

Be a Neighbourhood Naturalist has been created by a team with decades of experience studying the natural world, and working in the field of nature conservation. Packed with creative experiments and stunning illustrations, this book will open your eyes to the magic of the natural world and the amazing living things that share your neighborhood.

About the Speakers: 

Labonie Roy is a designer, illustrator, and artist, working towards creating engaging learning resources for children and adults. Growing up, she spent most of her time peering among plants for bugs, collecting leaves, petting every passing dog, and devouring every nature book and documentary she came across. Not much has changed since then, except that she now shares her passions with others through her work whether it’s creating classroom tools or writing children’s books about the natural world. 

Suhel Quader is a scientist at NCF, and head of the Education and Public Engagement programme there. After an academic focus on wildlife biology, animal behaviour and evolutionary ecology, he has spent the last 13 years concentrating instead on trying to broaden and deepen public engagement with nature.

Vena Kapoor is a nature educator, ecologist and conservation practitioner.  She founded Nature Classrooms - an initiative that connects learning to the natural world. With her team she designs age-appropriate and locally-culturally relevant nature learning modules and activities that can be weaved into the school curricula.