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Namita Bhandare

Namita Bhandare

Namita Bhandare writes on gender and other social issues and has 35-plus years of experience in journalism. She has edited books and features in a documentary on sexual violence. She tweets as @namitabhandare

Articles by Namita Bhandare

Parks and playgrounds must become inclusive

If a playground for children will not let a child, accompanied by her parents, feel the freedom of a swing, then who is that playground for? (HT Archive)

Updated on Feb 14, 2026 17:17 IST

Mind The Gap: A deep and dark morality tale of our times

Epstein survivors hold photos of their younger selves in a video from World Without Exploitation published on November 16, 2025.

Updated on Feb 9, 2026 02:30 IST

Mind The Gap: Why Indians fear love marriages

Man-made rules: a panchayat in session

Updated on Feb 2, 2026 09:55 IST

Corroding justice: Gaps in punishing acid violence

A 2011 report by Cornell University argues that the intention is not to kill but to make the person suffer for life — very often by some man furious that a woman has dared reject his advances. In Shaheen’s case, her lawyer Madiah Shahjar says, she was being propositioned by her married boss. (PTI)

Updated on Jan 31, 2026 17:36 IST

Mind The Gap: A death in Manipur

On the brink, again

Updated on Jan 27, 2026 11:55 IST

Decriminalising adolescent relationships under POCSO

POCSO’s object is to protect minors from sexual abuse. But by defining everybody below 18 as a child incapable of consent, it has “trapped many adolescent couples in a legal paradox”. (HT Archive)

Updated on Jan 17, 2026 18:38 IST

India’s son preference endures, daughter aversion declines

11th child

Updated on Jan 12, 2026 02:30 IST

Grok is on a global undressing spree. Can India stop it?

Elon Musk chose to post this can’t-unsee-it photo. Scores of other women did not consent.

Updated on Jan 5, 2026 09:47 IST

Sexual violence and the unevenness of justice

As 2025 came to an end, a court in Ernakulam finally convicted six men of raping and abducting a woman actor in 2017, but found no evidence against the actor Dileep, who the woman says hatched the plan. (PTI)

Updated on Jan 3, 2026 16:10 IST

Mind The Gap: The 2025 year-ender gender quiz

Instagram

Updated on Dec 29, 2025 02:30 IST

The good, the bad and the downright ugly: 2025 version

Crossing a line.

Updated on Dec 22, 2025 01:30 IST

Ending the male monopoly in bar councils in India

There’s been a fair amount of media attention on the lack of representation in the higher judiciary. In the Supreme Court, only one judge out of 34 is a woman. (HT Archive)

Updated on Dec 20, 2025 15:26 IST

Absolutely the best books by women in 2025

Credit: India Hamish Hamilton

Updated on Dec 16, 2025 10:30 IST

Bucking global trends, marriage in India endures. Here’s why

Jaya and Amitabh Bachchan on their wedding day, 1973

Updated on Dec 8, 2025 01:30 IST

In a world that normalises violence against women, digital violence is a threat

suicide

Updated on Dec 1, 2025 01:30 IST

When the internet allows weaponisation of intimacy

One in four female journalists and one in three women parliamentarians has reported online violence, according to UN Women

Updated on Nov 29, 2025 12:49 IST

A woman advising other women about fertility choices? Oh the horror

Upasana Kamineni

Updated on Nov 24, 2025 01:30 IST

Mind The Gap: How women voters powered the NDA’s Bihar sweep

Bihar election

Updated on Nov 17, 2025 01:30 IST

Missing women in the assemblies, Parliament

Thanks to reservation, our panchayats have 33% elected women and, in states such as Bihar 50%, but in the Lok Sabha, it’s 14% and in state assemblies it’s an average of 9%. (HT Archive)

Updated on Nov 15, 2025 16:28 IST

Mind The Gap: A week of pure good news

Harmanpreet Kaur (L) and Deepti Sharma after the dismissal of South African skipper Laura Wolvaardt

Updated on Nov 10, 2025 01:30 IST

Mind The Gap: How Jemimah Rodrigues found her groove

@jemimarodrigues

Updated on Nov 3, 2025 01:30 IST

Assault on Aussie cricketers: Accepting women’s equal right to space

India’s abysmal ranking on women’s safety in various surveys is hardly a secret: Ninth most dangerous by World Population Review’s 2024 Women Danger Index ; four out of 10 women feel unsafe in the 2025 National Annual Report and Index (NARI) on women’s safety. (HT Archive)

Updated on Nov 1, 2025 16:28 IST

Mind The Gap: The keepers of memory

Cooking for my firefly

Updated on Oct 20, 2025 01:30 IST

Rape and victim-blaming cues from leaders, judges

This is not the first time Banerjee has jumped in with her own theories about individual rape cases. In 2012, “fabricated” was the word she used to describe the rape of the “Park Street victim”, as media called her. (ANI)

Updated on Oct 18, 2025 16:26 IST

💪When the women said no

Miss Rishikesh 2025

Updated on Oct 13, 2025 09:27 IST

Mind The Gap| In her words: Harinder Baweja

Harinder ‘Shammy’ Baweja.

Updated on Oct 6, 2025 02:18 IST

In Bihar, the focus is on the woman voter

In 2020, the Nitish Kumar-led NDA won the assembly election by a narrow margin. A poll analysis by Lokniti-CSDS found that the win was partly due to young women voters. (HT Archive)

Updated on Oct 4, 2025 16:25 IST

Empowering Single Women in India: The Rise of the Ekal Nari Movement

Nirmal Chandel/pic courtesy: Martha Farrell Foundation

Updated on Sep 22, 2025 06:25 IST

Political parties have to be safe spaces for women

The Supreme Court’s observation on political parties as workspaces offers no solutions. It is time for political parties to pick up the slack and signal their good intentions. (HT Archive)

Updated on Sep 20, 2025 14:24 IST

Delayed justice to limited aid: The long wait for domestic abuse relief

The 2005 law defined domestic violence not just in terms of physical assault, but also mental and emotional cruelty, sexual violence and financial deprivation.

Updated on Sep 19, 2025 23:51 IST

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