Megnaa Mehtta

Conservation| Climate Maladaptation| Migration| Risk| Care| Assistant Prof. in Social Anthropology @UCLRDR | @AXAResearchFund Fellow | Formerly @LSEanthropology

[Megnaa Mehtta @MMehtta]

Community kitchens in #Sundarbans have been serving not just the need for food but have become a physical space to deal with collective loss & trauma after repeated cyclones.

@MahuaMoitra @derekobrienmp @AITCofficial pls support orgs. running such spaces for communal healing.

[Development Studies Association @devcomms]

📢 Applications are open for the @dpu_ucl Research Excellence Scholarship (UCL-RES) for 2025-26
40 fully funded awards are available for eligible full- or part-time research degree students.
⏰ Apply by 10 January 2025

More info here:
https://t.co/gGXDV4gqkG

[Neha Banka 네하 방카 @nehabnk]

Bengal Famine: 80 years on, the last-remaining survivors live forgotten in rural India, with traumatic memories of scarcity & floods

I travelled to the Sundarbans to report on how the famine changed kitchens & the lives of girls & women in rural Bengal: 

https://t.co/yxgm8sWRMk

[King's Legal Clinic @kcllegalclinic]

Law Clinic is beyond proud that threatened climatedefender Ritwick Dutta @lifeindia2016 lectures on our Transnational Enviro law +ClinicalLegalEducation module for #climatejustice in #Sundarbans @wbnujskolkata @KCL_Law @TLIKings @KMhumanrights @MMehtta @emilymbarritt @SueWillman

[Roxy Koll ⛈ @RockSea]

Cyclone, heatwaves and the monsoon in one frame.

#CycloneRemal in the Bay of Bengal, heatwaves over India and Pakistan, and the southwest monsoon picking up its pace.

[shibaji bose @shibajibose1]

We are happy to invite you to a webinar on looking at climate loss and damage in Indian Sundarbans through the lens of fishers, farmers, federations, NGOs, bureaucrats & academics. Link:
https://t.co/pxkw3tOOkP
Meeting ID: 827 5736 1894 Passcode: 264567 
@grassandgreens

[Sue Willman @SueWillman]

Spking at @publiclawproject conference re communities in #Sundarbans working with @kcllegalclinic to seek reparations for #climatecrisis collaborating w @wbnujskolkata @KMhumanrights @MMehtta @emilymbarritt here’s a fundraiser to support their self-help
https://t.co/B3LbQ5K9YY

[Orient BlackSwan @OrientBlackSwan]

@MMehtta and Renny Thomas will discuss the implications of ecologies of care with volume editors Ambika Aiyadurai, Arka Chattopadhyay and Nishaant Choksi. The session will be moderated by @DalitCulture.

@UCLIRDR @iiserbhopal @IiserMohali.

[Amitav Ghosh @GhoshAmitav]

In this ethnographic study of climate change and its impacts on Bangladesh, @CameliaDewan offers a vitally important corrective to simplistic narratives of global warming. 1/n

Thread 👇🏾

[King's Legal Clinic @kcllegalclinic]

With tiger widows holding the death certificates of husbands killed fishing in tigerreserve, denied compensation ⁦@DishaEarth⁩ reps them in litigation ⁦@SueWillman⁩ w ⁦@wbnujskolkata⁩ students ⁦@rv_shashank⁩ ⁦@akashtypes⁩ #Sundarbans #climatechange

[Ritwika Mitra @MRitwika]

What is the burden of #ClimateCrisis on #women living in #Bangladesh's #Sundarbans? For @BehanBox, I write on the #burden of #unpaidcare & #healthchallenges borne by women. Edited by Malini Nair, and produced by @bhanupriya_rao
https://t.co/SAsP7R8qmq

[Sue Willman @SueWillman]

Our Sundarbans Climate Justice Project co-collaborator @KMhumanrights @DoughtyStIntl is doing sponsored cycle for Tiger Widows of Lahiripur, Sundarbans, India https://t.co/xyLWRasNjR @kcllegalclinic #Sundarbans @emilymbarritt #ClimateEmergency #globalsouth @apmehrotra @MMehtta

[Supriya Vohra @Supriya_Vohra]

Hi! I spent the last 13 months writing stories across India's west coast - from port development and fish famine to chemical pollution to water scarcity to diversion - with the underlying theme of prioritization of corporate interests over communities and water ecosystems.#THREAD

[Amitangshu| অমিতাংশু। @amitangshu]

In the #Bengal #Delta, every #pond, or pukur, has stories to tell — of waterbirds and #wetland plants, of family memory, colonialist history, and #climatechange. My piece on ponds, #partition, and placemaking has been published in @PlacesJournal.
https://t.co/bkgj2wkkz9

[Raza Kazmi @RazaKazmi17]

Ritwick Dutta is absolutely incredible. For years, he's been the strongest defender of India's ecological security & those dependent on it, both wildlife and people, in our courts of law. The govt is gravely mistaken if they think they can deter him by such intimidation tactics.

[Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar]

Failing to understand the allegation here. No one should criticise coal in India?! Didn't Central Electricity Authority call for closure of old thermal plants!

Litigation is meant to be a tool. That is by design. Why not make counter arguments during hearing? Why FCRA route?

[Raza Kazmi @RazaKazmi17]

Some history Trivia on Project Tiger. A🧵

Though the Project was launched today, 50 yrs ago, the actual beginning was a year earlier. In 1972, an 11-member 'task force' constituted by Indira Gandhi submitted its report. They thought of a title for their report. They called it 👇

[Calynn Dowler @calynndowler]

Tomorrow I will give a talk via Zoom about my ongoing work on water & religion in the #Sundarbans as a part of @KingsIndiaInst's seminar series on "Archipelagic Indias." Thankful to to Professor @ananya_jahanara for this invitation & looking forward!
https://t.co/i4VBzo9Zt9

[Tanmoy Bhaduri @tanmoy_pj]

Changing Coastlines

This #documentary is now finished after three months of labour. It largely focuses on how small-scale fishers in #WestBengal's East Midnapore are affected by #climatechange and #development initiatives. #Watch and share your feedback: https://t.co/9rhmuPlwWf