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    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

    Mind The Gap: Journalism as resistance

    Zahra Nader at the Security Council, UN Headquarters, New York, October 20, 2022
    opinion
    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)
    opinion
    Updated on Mar 14, 2026 17:48 IST

    Mind The Gap: Women won’t go back

    Time to power up
    opinion
    Updated on Mar 8, 2026 11:44 IST

    Mind The Gap: More than ‘just’ a housewife

    Valuable work
    opinion
    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)
    opinion
    Updated on Mar 1, 2026 01:17 IST

    Mind The Gap: The problem with rape judgments

    chief justice
    opinion
    Updated on Feb 23, 2026 24:47 IST

    Mind The Gap: The hero we need: Merci Gisele

    Penguin Books
    opinion
    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)
    opinion
    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.
    opinion
    Updated on Feb 9, 2026 02:30 IST

    Mind The Gap: Why Indians fear love marriages

    Man-made rules: a panchayat in session
    opinion
    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)
    opinion
    Updated on Jan 31, 2026 17:36 IST

    Mind The Gap: A death in Manipur

    On the brink, again
    opinion
    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)
    opinion
    Updated on Jan 17, 2026 18:38 IST

    India’s son preference endures, daughter aversion declines

    11th child
    opinion
    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.
    opinion
    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)
    opinion
    Updated on Jan 3, 2026 16:10 IST

    Mind The Gap: The 2025 year-ender gender quiz

    Instagram
    opinion
    Updated on Dec 29, 2025 02:30 IST

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

    Crossing a line.
    opinion
    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)
    opinion
    Updated on Dec 20, 2025 15:26 IST

    Absolutely the best books by women in 2025

    Credit: India Hamish Hamilton
    opinion
    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
    opinion
    Updated on Dec 8, 2025 01:30 IST

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

    suicide
    opinion
    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
    opinion
    Updated on Nov 29, 2025 12:49 IST

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

    Upasana Kamineni
    opinion
    Updated on Nov 24, 2025 01:30 IST

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

    Bihar election
    opinion
    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)
    opinion
    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
    opinion
    Updated on Nov 10, 2025 01:30 IST

    Mind The Gap: How Jemimah Rodrigues found her groove

    @jemimarodrigues
    opinion
    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)
    opinion
    Updated on Nov 1, 2025 16:28 IST

    Mind The Gap: The keepers of memory

    Cooking for my firefly
    opinion
    Updated on Oct 20, 2025 01:30 IST
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