OPEN TO OPINION
Namita Bhandare is an independent writer who writes on social and gender issues and was involved in an award-winning documentary on the December 2012 gang-rape and murder of a young medical student.
POLITICS
| 5-minute read
No bleeding hearts for bleeding feet of Indian farmers
Those protesting farmers just gave us a lesson in how to be good citizens. Patronise them at your peril.
VOICES
| 6-minute read
9 thoughts on creating a gender equal world
Changing the world sometimes is not about the big revolutions or the grand ideas, it begins by the tiny steps you and I can take.
VOICES
| 7-minute read
If men are not entitled to sex, then women are not entitled to victimhood
It's time to ask why fundamental signals between men and women are being misread and, more dangerously, not being received.
VARIETY
| 4-minute read
Practise safe sex, use a condom. Don't worry about ads
It's time to get over our prudishness in public life.
VOICES
| 4-minute read
Gauri Lankesh's murder marks the end of an era of Indian journalism
Assaults have almost become a part of the job, but murder is a new and more worrying trend.
VOICES
| 4-minute read
A tribute to Aunty Leila Seth
For her wisdom, patience and sharp intelligence, I will always be grateful. I find that in this gratitude, I am not alone.
POLITICS
| 3-minute read