An author and academic, Sumana Roy is building an archive of the literature on plant life in the Indian subcontinent that has existed over the last two millennia. Her book ‘How I Became a Tree’, is recognized as a seminal work in ‘philosophical botany’, across diverse readerships worldwide. She focuses on another unexplored polycrisis stressor – the weakening and disappearance of languages. At the Indian Plant Humanities project, she collaborates with designers, data engineers, librarians, and artists to co-produce ways to make storytelling around plants accessible and wondrous for diverse audiences, especially students, children, and young people. She publishes in the best-regarded literary platforms of the world, but also in little magazines and blogs. Across her work of teaching, writing, and archiving, Sumana is passionately interested in creating a vocabulary of safety, delight, and calm to replace the vocabulary of violence and apocalypse used in everyday life.