Avantika Mehta
Avantika Mehta is an independent journalist based out of New Delhi. She covers issues related to law, gender and crime. She studied at Iowa Writers Workshop, and also writes fiction.
On the periphery
India’s sex workers were vulnerable even before the pandemic.
Dec 09, 2020
Latest Articles
The deep roots of Myanmar’s crisis
Can the history of Myanmar’s political economy help us make sense of the military coup?
The anatomy of Urdu
How the language of state-making in Pakistan contributes to the erasure of regional languages.
CNN in Myanmar, environmental crises, and Tibetan cinema
Southasiasphere podcast episode 06: Updates and analysis from around the region.
Translating a pandemic
The impact of COVID-19 terminology on Southasian languages.
