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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

The acid attack survivor who forces us to look

Shaheen Malik

Updated on May 11, 2026 02:30 IST

Why balancing work and motherhood is still hard

Until care is seen as a human responsibility shared equally by both parents and not segregated by gender, the old guilt will travel generation to generation. (HT Archive)

Updated on May 9, 2026 15:31 IST

The bench and the body

Supreme Court

Updated on May 4, 2026 07:08 IST

We ❤️ women, but not in the House

The power of their vote. Women queue up during the 2024 parliamentary elections in Nadia, West Bengal.

Updated on Apr 27, 2026 02:30 IST

Women’s rage finds a voice and vocabulary

In Manipur, women weary of ethnic conflict are back on the street to protest inaction following the killing of two children in a bomb blast in Bishnupur. (PTI)

Updated on Apr 25, 2026 17:07 IST

Not rescue but revolution: Inside Kranti’s radical classroom

Courtesy: @wearekranti/Instagram

Updated on Apr 20, 2026 02:31 IST

A giant leap—for women in power

Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen

Updated on Apr 13, 2026 04:30 IST

Giving women their due in law-making

When asked about the missing women, parties invariably talk of “winnability”. The message is clear: Women matter as voters not decision-makers. (@ECISVEEP X/ANI)

Updated on Apr 11, 2026 15:25 IST

Mind The Gap: And so it begins…

Fear and loathing, but also resistance

Updated on Apr 6, 2026 02:30 IST

Mind The Gap: Big Tech’s very bad week

Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify in Los Angeles.

Updated on Mar 30, 2026 02:30 IST

Transgressing rights of self-identification

Members of the transgender community shout slogans during a protest against the proposed Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill in New Delhi on March 26, 2026. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP) (AFP)

Updated on Mar 28, 2026 14:47 IST

Mind The Gap: Identity under scrutiny

File photo

Updated on Mar 23, 2026 02:30 IST

Mind The Gap: Journalism as resistance

Zahra Nader at the Security Council, UN Headquarters, New York, October 20, 2022

Updated on Mar 16, 2026 11:51 IST

When falling in love becomes a radical act

In a country where 95% of marriages are still arranged by families in accordance with caste and faith, where murders committed in the name of family honour, and where even the inter-mingling of girls and boys is frowned upon, the simple act of falling in love can be a radical if not dangerous act. (HT Archive)

Updated on Mar 14, 2026 17:48 IST

Mind The Gap: Women won’t go back

Time to power up

Updated on Mar 8, 2026 11:44 IST

Mind The Gap: More than ‘just’ a housewife

Valuable work

Updated on Mar 2, 2026 02:30 IST

Why a social media ban makes sense

Social media’s harms cut across ages. We are less connected, less able to focus, and our brains are turning into mush. But young people are far more susceptible to peer pressure, to be vulnerable to abuse by strangers, to be more open to addiction. (AFP)

Updated on Mar 1, 2026 01:17 IST

Mind The Gap: The problem with rape judgments

chief justice

Updated on Feb 23, 2026 24:47 IST

Mind The Gap: The hero we need: Merci Gisele

Penguin Books

Updated on Feb 16, 2026 10:50 IST

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

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