Tales from the Hot Seat
Hop into an Auto to Tackle Bangalore’s Rising Temperatures
For Ages 6-12
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Bangalore is sizzling! And young Ravi’s favourite sticker-covered water bottle is officially missing.
He and his mother hail an auto-rickshaw to retrace their steps. As they zip through the streets, the missing bottle turns into something bigger: a ride through a city gasping in the heat.
Auto Akka and the Hot Seat is a new children’s illustrated storybook that turns climate science into an urban adventure. In this session, climate data and research transform into a sensory, lived experience through storytelling.
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 experience.
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.
We welcome your ideas and input. If you have suggestions for children’s events or activities that align with this vision, we’d love to hear from you. Please reach out to us at library@bangaloreinternationalcentre.org
Facilitators
Ujjvala
Ujjvala is a climate and urban researcher drawn to the intersections of people, policy, and the built environment. Believing that cities are simultaneously wonderful and disastrously ad-hoc, her work explores the friction and negotiations between the various systems that shape our urban spaces. As an architect by training, she is perpetually asking, ‘how did this really get built?’ seeking to bridge the gap between the chaotic reality of the city, and what shapes it.
Radha
Radha is a visual communication designer from Mumbai, currently based in Bangalore. She works across illustration, comics, and visual storytelling, creating stories inspired by everyday life. Her work draws from the people, places, and small moments that often go unnoticed, turning them into visual narratives that feel familiar, observant, and human.
Nithya
Nithya is an urban planner and community engagement specialist. She has worked at the intersection of mobility, climate resilience, urban ecology, and grassroots engagement. Her work consistently turns community knowledge into planning evidence: from leading walkability audits across 300 km of Bengaluru’s footpaths to co-authoring a nationally replicable safe routes to school guidebook. Fluent in Kannada, she engages directly with communities that planning processes most often leave out.
Lakshita
Lakshita is an architect and visual artist with a focus on circular materiality. Educated at CEPT University and the Royal College of Art, her work in furniture and interior design foregrounds reuse and repair, shaped by a deep engagement with craft and regional fabrication methods. She is a founder of BLURCK, a multidisciplinary architecture studio that blends critical foresight with collaborative methods to build responsive work across India.
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