Thinking with Plants and Fungi: "The Quest for the Plant Script, a Talk by Author Sumana Roy

Why have our writers, artists, thinkers, and scholars been compelled to turn their attention towards the ‘plant script’ in the last one hundred years? Beginning from Jagadish Chandra Bose’s “torulipi”—the handwriting of plants or the plant script through which he hoped plants would write their autobiography—and moving through Rabindranath Tagore’s songs about the language of flowers; to poets writing about the syntax of the falling of leaves to artists trying to coax a vocabulary out of plants or creating a “tree alphabet,” Sumana Roy shall speak about the quest for the plant script, its codes, its compulsions, and its intimate histories.  
Speaker's Bio:   
Sumana Roy is the author of many publications, including How I Became a Tree (Aleph Book Company, 2019; Yale University Press, 2022), Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries (Yale University Press, 2024), and VIP: Very Important Plant, a collection of poems (Shearsman Books, 2022). She is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University.