Megnaa Mehtta

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Megnaa Mehtta

Megnaa Mehtta is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR) at University College London.

Counting Tigers, Discounting Victims of Tiger Attacks

When people die in tiger attacks in the Sundarbans, the humane response would be to compensate their families. Instead, we see an opaque bureaucracy splitting hairs to deny justice to some of the…

▶30-Oct-2023

Megnaa Mehtta

A ‘Licence’ to Kill in the Sundarbans

A regime of fishing licences in the Sundarbans, unchanged since colonial times, might be the single biggest everyday hazard to the lives of the fishers: on par with tigers, cyclones, and rising seas.

▶10-Nov-2021

Megnaa Mehtta

Megnaa Mehtta

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Counting Tigers, Discounting Victims of Tiger Attacks

A ‘Licence’ to Kill in the Sundarbans