Herlands - Lessons From Societies Where Women Make the Rules

Megha Mohan is a storyteller from southern India, living in the UK. Her first book, HERLANDS: Lessons From Societies Where Women Make the Rules, is being published by Harvill at Penguin Random House, in 2026.

As of September 2018, she became the BBC's first Gender and Identity Correspondent. She covered issues concerning women's rights and LGBT communities, and race and ethnicity, for the BBC's 43 language services. She has travelled to and reported from six continents. Megha is a deployment journalist who files longform original features for BBC World TV, radio, online and social media.

She has interviewed Michelle Obama, Amal Clooney, Melinda French Gates, several women leaders including Sanna Marin, the Prime Minister of Finland and Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, the Prime Minister of Samoa, as well as several public figures including pop star Billie Eilish.

Megha is the co-founder of Second Source, a community for women and non-binary journalists from underrepresented backgrounds in London.

She has consulted on Level Up’s media guidelines on how to responsibly report domestic abuse. She has presented these guidelines at the International Journalism Festival at Perugia, Italy and Reuters Institute of Journalism, Oxford University.

Her original reporting include exclusive in-depth the influence of the far right in global politics, the War on Drugs in the Philippines, the billion dollar livestreaming industry in China, meme culture in India, women in North Korea’s army, political instability in DR Congo, and the spread of propaganda and misinformation in Burundi.

She regularly appears on BBC News TV, the World Service and Radio 4.

Prior to joining the BBC, she worked in the Great Lakes in Africa.