Author. Junglee. Traveller. Sleepless dreamer. Ex-Hon. Wildlife Warden, Udaipur. Authored 19 books (Penguin Random House, HarperCollins etc).
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@storizenmag: Arefa Tehsin’s “Wild Next Door” is a fun and interesting nature book that helps children discover the amazing creatures living around them.
Illustrated by Canato Jimo
Read the review on: storizen.com/book-reviews/wi…
@PenguinIndia #childrensbooks #urbanwildlife #nature
Arefa Tehsin retweeted
"In #Udaipur, once upon a time, hyenas came to feast on Dadijaan’s pots of vinegar and Daddy just went to the perennial stream by our home to catch fish if there were guests at home. Foxes lived in graveyards, peacocks danced in the rain. Now the #Aravalli range are turning arid."
On the #wildlife he had in our cities, what we lost, what we must fight to retain & why.
Beautiful piece in @IndianExpress by @ATehsin (and can i come live in #Colombo too-i want fireflies on my spoon & a monitor or two in my garden..
@IndianExpress: #Bengaluru needs a tunnel and 1,128 #trees must make way...I can't name a single metropolis in India where a firefly lands on your spoon as you are about to serve aloo-gobhi.
Here are the lessons I have learnt from #Colombo's city wildlife.
indianexpress.com/article/op…
What if the fox isn’t always sly, the lion isn’t always brave, and the spider isn’t always creepy? What if there’s more to every character than meets the eye?
Join me for the free #writingworkshop organised by Big Red Education
@PenguinIndia #kidlit #creativewriting
@IndianExpress: #Bengaluru needs a tunnel and 1,128 #trees must make way...I can't name a single metropolis in India where a firefly lands on your spoon as you are about to serve aloo-gobhi.
Here are the lessons I have learnt from #Colombo's city wildlife.
indianexpress.com/article/op…
It was such fun writing about the wild denizens that inhabit our cities, homes and backyards.
The lovely illustrations by Canato Jimo
#wildnextdoor @PenguinIndia
"Wild Next Door" encourages children to look at small creatures with curiosity instead of fear.
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@PenguinIndia @PeriSwapna @ATehsin
#books
“A fast paced, suspenseful thriller… building up to a shocking finale!”
• @GargiRawat
Bohot bohot shukriya, Gargi! I am glad The Fourth Girl was a good companion during your travels :)
#TheFourthGirl #MysteryThriller @PenguinIndia #bookrecommendations
@IndianExpress: Wild Next Door is a good read for children...From using humour generously to quick quizzes through the chapters, (Arefa) keeps the reader on their toes, making them exercise their brains.
indianexpress.com/article/bo…
#wildnextdoor @PuffinIndia #WildlifeFacts #kidlit
@RajaSen, I’m happy you enjoyed meeting Q, Raj and Bhair & took out time to write them a word of appreciation!
Readers of #thrillers, #mysteries, #womensfiction, if you haven’t met #TheFourthGirl yet, well, beware of the trapdoors and stumbling in dark...
@PenguinIndia
Glimpses of the launch of my feminist thriller #TheFourthGirl in #Colombo.
A beautiful evening of conversations around women who write, women written & the messy, marvellous territory in between.
Designer Radisi. Video-NilanMaligespe
#booklaunch @PenguinIndia #authorslife
I list my favourite female driven #thrillers on @mybookdna
1. The Moonstone: ...Rosanna Spearman deserved better and 150 yrs later I'm still cross about it. A good makes you hold grudges on behalf of people who never existed.
Read @ bookdna.com/best-books/thril…
#BookRecommendations
Arefa Tehsin retweeted
With its intriguing premise and mounting suspense, @ATehsin's novel invites readers to question how well we can ever know the truth and whether some secrets are too dangerous to uncover.
@PenguinBooks
Arefa Tehsin retweeted
Today is Jayaprakash Narayan’s birth anniversary. Incidentally the JP movement of 1974 was a massive student-led protest against corruption and misgovernance, during Indira Gandhi’s govt.
It gave us regional leaders like Mulayam Singh Yadav, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Nitish Kumar
"Arefa writes with stride of a sturdy, curious, empathetic explorer...tearing apart facades while retaining her quick humour, whimsical wordplay & sharp observation"
- Shereekumar Varma, Playwright, Columnist
Thank you, Mr. @shreekumarvarma
@PenguinIndia #thefourthgirl
"Both haunting and brilliant, I found it impossible to put down."
Thank you, @sombatabyal on these generous words about #TheFourthGirl. Delighted that you enjoyed the story! 🙂
@PenguinIndia
@IndianExpress reviews #TheFourthGirl: ...it is her writing that makes the third-person narrative feel like a first-person one...and you can’t help but turn the page. The Fourth Girl is definitely a relevant read in this day and age.
Link: indianexpress.com/article/bo…
@PenguinIndia
I am impressed with Ishara of Daily News who came to cover the launch and wrote such a remarkable piece on the evening, covering the discussion about women in writing and women written - from the lens of a male #journalist.
@PenguinIndia #booklaunch
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