Rohan Chakravarty's Ruddy (mongoose) detective will whisk you to India's most astonishing places and animals. With mad-eyed delight, a touch of noir, and hat tips to film and literature, this book is the pop culture revolution the world needs today. Find your new superheroes in glowing scorpions, lizards that fly, clever fungus, endemic frogs that sound like water drops, and spiders that mimic ants. And find your own self while unraveling evolution in the forest.

From a storyteller at the height of his powers, each page screams 'Hear me! Taste me! Climb me! Figure me out!' This playful ladder to natural history will make you look at the world with new eyes, and so it is for every child, and every adult.

-- Neha Sinha

The greatest whodunnits are found in nature. The greenest mysteries are cracked by Naturalist Ruddy. Whether you belong to a colony of mongoose or humans, Ruddy has the best tale to tell'

-- Bijal Vachharajani

Rohan Chakravarty, notorious for rolling up into a ball like a pangolin to avoid meeting people, is a cartoonist, illustrator and the creator of Green Humour, a series of cartoons, comics and illustrations on wildlife and nature conservation. Cartoons from Green Humour appear periodically in newspaper columns, magazines and journals. Illustrations from Green Humour have been used for several projects and campaigns on wildlife awareness and conservation. Rohan is also the author of The Great Indian Nature Trail (WWF India) and Bird Business (BNHS), and has won awards by UNDP, Sanctuary Asia, WWF International, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Publishing Next for his work.