Dialogue
Conversations &
Thought Leadership
550+ speakers, artists, and practitioners in dialogue about the Himalayas, identity, ecology, and the future.
Featured Panels
Climate & Identity in the Himalayas
Day 2 · 11:00 · 4 speakers
Himalayan Communities Forum
Day 4 · 13:00 · 6 speakers
Closing Conversations — Becoming
Day 7 · 10:00 · 5 speakers
Design as Resistance
Day 3 · 11:00 · 3 speakers
Speakers & Practitioners
Day 1 · 14:00
Becoming is not a destination. It is the act of walking toward yourself.
Tillotama Shome
Actor & Storyteller · Northeast India
Becoming: A Conversation on Transformation
IdentityStorytellingNortheast India
Day 1 · 10:00
The Himalayas are not just geography — they are the conscience of the nation.
Amitabh Kant
Policy Leader & Author · New Delhi
Opening Ceremony & Inaugural Address
PolicyHimalayasDevelopment
Day 6 · 13:00
The women of the Himalayas have been writing history with their hands, their looms, their silence.
Urvashi Butalia
Publisher & Feminist Historian · New Delhi
Publishing & Himalayan Voices
PublishingWomenHistory
Day 5 · 11:30
Stories from the margins are the ones that change the centre.
Dhruv Sehgal
Writer & Filmmaker · Mumbai
Dhruv Sehgal in Conversation
FilmWritingYouth Culture
Day 3 · 11:00
Design is not decoration. It is the architecture of meaning.
Vishal K. Dar
Designer & Cultural Curator · New Delhi
Design as Resistance
DesignCultureCraft
Day 5 · 09:00
Every thread in a Mising weave carries the memory of a river.
Avantika Haflongbar
Textile Artist & Researcher · Assam
Northeast Textiles — Living Traditions
TextilesNortheastCraft