This paper examines how Indian children’s climate movement-building is narrated as an Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) genealogy of protest in Bijal Vachharajani’s middle-grade novel A Cloud Called Bhura. (Vachharajani, 2024) Situating the text within education-for-sustainable-development concerns, the study asks how protest memory (Chipko and Vanar Sena), naming practices (“Abhiyan”), and institution-facing repertoires (march and PIL) are represented as civic literacy that can support SDG 13 (climate action) and SDG 16 (participation, rights, and civic institutions). (Vachharajani, 2024) (United Nations, n.d.) (United Nations, n.d.) The theoretical framework integrates operationalized New Historicism, focusing on co-texts and circulation (news media, scientific reporting, legal documents) and on how power works through public narratives, with social movement theory’s framing tasks and repertoires/diffusion to analyze collective action dynamics. (Gallagher & Greenblatt, 2000) (Benford & Snow, 2000) Methodologically, the analysis treats the novel as a primary text, read alongside its embedded co-texts, and uses close reading plus thematic coding of (a) protest-memory allusions, (b) diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational framing, (c) repertoire depictions, and (d) diffusion and networking mentions. (Vachharajani, 2024) Findings show that the children’s initiative, The Silver Lining Abhiyan (TSLA), scales through culturally legible naming, relational diffusion (“friends… friends”), and spatial strategy (Google Maps-based neighborhood division), while also building authority through evidence-gathering and institutional encounters. (Vachharajani, 2024) The novel represents the march and PIL as complementary repertoires, teaching procedural participation, permissions, and rights-claiming in ways that align climate mobilization with democratic civic practice. (Vachharajani, 2024) Overall, the narrative performs cultural work by reactivating protest genealogies as actionable memory, enabling young protagonists to translate climate harm into public claims, and modeling how sustainable development can be pursued through knowledge circulation, collective organization, and institutional accountability. (Vachharajani, 2024) (United Nations, n.d.)