While tailing her father who worked for a tea company, author Arthy Muthanna Singh fondly remembers their years in Korakundah Estate, which borders Mukurthi National Park in Tamil Nadu. “One has to see that landscape to believe it! Green, lush sholas, the grasslands, the streams, the lakes…awe-inspiring! I spotted practically every wonderful animal found in the Nilgiris and Kodagu [Coorg], but I’m still waiting for my own first sight of the Nilgiri tahr,” she shares. Her desire to see the rare, elusive state animal of Tamil Nadu has been partially fulfilled through World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF India)’s comic book, Valli’s Nilgiri Adventures, that she has penned along with Mamta Nainy. 

Mamta Nainy; Arthy Muthanna Singh