Namita Bhandare
Hindustan Times
New Delhi, DL, India
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Mind The Gap | The Indian woman’s search for agency
Hello and welcome to Mind the Gap, a newsletter that adds perspective to the gender developments of the week. → Read More
Mind The Gap | Women leaders of India and the world
Hello and welcome to Mind the Gap, a newsletter that adds perspective to the gender developments of the week. → Read More
Challenging patriarchy in religion
When the pujari (priest) at the Durga temple in Madurai fell ill and could no longer perform the ritual pujas, his only child, a daughter, Pinniyakkal, stepped up. Two years later, when he died in 2006, she staked her claim to be the full-time pujari, a hereditary position at that temple → Read More
The regressive mindset behind the Tarun Tejpal judgment
The Tejpal judgment could have stopped with an acquittal on reasonable doubt due to lack of police evidence. Instead, there are insinuations about the woman’s credibility, including the fact that she admittedly had no physical injuries after the assault → Read More
Amma and the women who enable women
A widowed, unlettered refugee from Bangladesh who remained unsure about her age, she had come to Delhi with two young sons, acquiring employment, a bank account and a property in what was then called the East Pakistan Displaced Persons Society, now Chittaranjan Park → Read More
Shake power structures to give women dignity
The MeToo Movement undoubtedly gave a few women a voice and a platform, but it left out the vast majority of India’s working women, women employed as domestic workers, in brick kilns, as farm labourers, in garment factories. Dalit, tribal, trans and marginalised voices were never heard. → Read More
The trinity of patriarchy, poverty and the pandemic
There is a clear link between keeping girls in school and delaying marriage. Raising the minimum age of marriage for girls to 21 is not a solution → Read More
India’s 2020 Gender Report Card
The end of a year is a good time to take stock – just how much we’ve achieved, how much more must be done and, this year in particular, how much is in danger of being lost → Read More
Covid-19: Preserving the gains on education
It’s the job of institutions and government to provide infrastructure. We need a coherent policy tailored to specific regions and needs that will look at the complexities of online learning. → Read More
Covid-19 and the heroic role of women health workers | Opinion
India’s army of community health workers feels invisibilised despite the critical role they play in fighting Covid-19 → Read More
Build a society that respects individual choice
Demonising doctors and families who force individuals to undergo conversion therapy is the easy bit. The far harder part is the work that must go into building an affirmative society that is respectful of individual choice → Read More
The lockdown is hard for women with disability
Before Covid-19, women with disabilities were already undergoing their own lockdown, invisible and shut out from the rest of the world. Now, the walls are closing in. → Read More
Gender stereotypes can be broken. Here is how
In a slum in New Delhi, a group of young women and men are making their city safer → Read More
Recognise unpaid care work as a common good
Care work is highly gendered and a barrier to women’s participation in the paid economy. It’s time we changed that → Read More
Why it is essential to have women at the table
Women have their own perspective based on their struggles to ascension. To exclude them from crucial meetings is to shut out the voices of nearly half of our population → Read More
Anti-CAA protests have shown women can lead
The photographs emerging from the Jamia protest — not just the iconic video featuring the four but also women breaking stereotypes in all— women protests, offering roses to police, giving clear soundbytes, or just claiming their place on the streets — show courage and tenacity, clarity and commitment. More important, they tell us that women belong and, yes, they can lead. → Read More
A gender revolution in education, but not jobs
Perhaps the biggest transformation has taken place in rural India where in 2016, 70% of 18-year-olds were already in college. But do they want daughters to pursue careers? That’s another story. → Read More
A year since MeToo, what it achieved — and didn’t
A conversation that began post the December 16 Delhi gangrape has grown louder. We may be miles away from a world free of sexual assault, but we are certainly a few notches closer → Read More
The perils of a two-child policy
Concerns about a national law on population revolve around two questions. Will it be coercive and will it further skew our already precarious sex ratio? → Read More
On a mission to save the world
Despite the hardships they face, teenage girls are pushing back for change → Read More