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Business News > Mint Authors > Namita Bhandare

Namita Bhandare

ARTICLES BY NAMITA BHANDARE

Activists often describe progress in women’s rights as 'running in place', or even 'two steps forward and one step backward'. (Unsplash)

Why Indian women are still dreaming of gender equality

6 min read . 29 Mar 2021

Rafiul Alom Rahman has a track record of driving change. (Pradeep Gaur/Mint)

To be Muslim and queer

3 min read . 13 Dec 2019

Rafiul Alom Rahman has a track record of driving change. (Pradeep Gaur/Mint)

To be Muslim and queer

3 min read . 13 Dec 2019

Instead of taking the gender agenda forward, there is fear that today’s governments will take it backward, and there is a scramble to at least maintain the status quo. (iStockphoto)

Opinion | The battle for gender equality in an era of machismo politics

4 min read . 02 Dec 2019

A file photograph of surrogate mothers at Nayana Patel’s clinic in Anand, Gujarat. (Photo: Hindustan Times)

The abolition of choice

6 min read . 20 Sept 2019

A file photograph of surrogate mothers at Nayana Patel’s clinic in Anand, Gujarat. (Photo: Hindustan Times)

The abolition of choice

6 min read . 20 Sept 2019

A still from ‘RBG’.

You can’t spell truth without Ruth Bader Ginsburg

5 min read . 14 Jun 2019

A still from ‘RBG’.

You can’t spell truth without Ruth Bader Ginsburg

5 min read . 14 Jun 2019

A still from ‘Four Shots Please’, now streaming on Amazon Prime.

No punch in this cosmo

3 min read . 15 Feb 2019

A still from ‘Four Shots Please’, now streaming on Amazon Prime.

No punch in this cosmo

3 min read . 15 Feb 2019

More than halfway into her tenure as a Supreme Court judge, Justice R Banumathi is currently the only sitting woman judge. Illustrations: Shyamal Banerjee/Mint

67 years of Supreme Court, 6 women judges

7 min read . 02 Sept 2017

Meena Kandasamy says she needed the crutch of fiction to tell her story.

When home is a prison: Meena Kandasamy’s story of domestic abuse

5 min read . 02 Jun 2017

In 2015, according to National Crime Records Bureau, 34,651 cases of rape were registered. Photo: Hindustan Times

Nirbhaya gangrape case: Separating fact from emotion

4 min read . 06 May 2017

Eight of the country’s 24 high courts don’t have a single woman judge. And of the 229 judges appointed to the Supreme Court since 1950, only six have been women. Photo: iStockphoto

Balancing the scales

4 min read . 02 May 2017

A file photo of a youth being questioned by an anti-Romeo squad official in Lucknow. Photo: PTI

Fire anti-Romeo squads

4 min read . 18 Apr 2017

Yet, despite the centrality of marriage to our lives, 74.1 million single women in India—never married, divorced, separated, widowed—comprise nearly 12% of our female population. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint

All the single women

3 min read . 05 Apr 2017

Despite a law since 2013 and the Vishakha guidelines before that, sexual harassment at the workplace remains a maze that nobody seems to be able to negotiate.

An unequal balance

4 min read . 22 Mar 2017

Meira Paibis protesting against Afspa in Imphal in 2004. Photo: Reuters

Book review: The Mothers Of Manipur—Twelve Women Who Made History

3 min read . 14 Mar 2017

Perhaps Gurmehar Kaur is that kind of 20-year-old who believes that holding up a series of posters will bring about world peace.

Getting lady oriented

3 min read . 07 Mar 2017

Abuse is rampant and a 2002 survey found that 67% reported physical abuse; 53% said they had been sexually abused. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint

The juxtaposition of disability and gender rights

3 min read . 21 Feb 2017