Namita Bhandare writes on gender and other social issues and has 25 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
We must agree to disagree
On national networks, anchors with no pretence to journalistic objectivity jump onto the national/anti-national bandwagon over the Kashmir issue: demands to dilute army presence are anti-national. Namita Bhandare writes.
Updated on Mar 06, 2011 01:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Namita Bhandare, New Delhi
Will our real heroes stand up?
There is no dearth of role models in India. But those who get recognised are rarely deserving, writes Namita Bhandare.
Updated on Mar 06, 2011 06:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Namita Bhandare, New Delhi
No spark to light our anger
The middle class, the one-time custodians of moral values, isn't vigilant enough anymore, writes Namita Bhandare.
Updated on Mar 07, 2011 09:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Namita Bhandare, New Dellhi
Don't dribble past this episode
We will probably never know the whole truth about what provoked 31 Indian women hockey players to sign a letter backing charges of sexual harassment against their coach, MK Kaushik. But if hockey's sleazy story taught me one thing, it is this: women athletes are expected to wash their coach's clothes, writes Namita Bhandare.
Updated on Jul 23, 2010 10:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Namita Bhandare
Let’s get the basics right
New Delhi needs more than just grand edifices to join the list of the most liveable cities. Namita Bhandare writes.
Updated on Jul 09, 2010 10:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Namita Bhandare
Bhutan Literary Festival: Last Day
Several speakers at Bhutan’s first literary festival have pointed to what they see as televisions baleful influence.
Updated on May 21, 2010 04:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Namita Bhandare, New Delhi
Revealing Kinley Dorji
Kinley Dorji, secretary in the ministry of Information, points out that the main competitors of newspapers in Bhutan are not television, but word-of-mouth rumour mongering.
Updated on May 21, 2010 04:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Namita Bhandare, New Delhi
Bhutan Literary Festival: Day 2
The Bhutan Literary Festival had an unexpected visitor today when King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the fifth king, said he wanted to meet writers from India.
Updated on May 21, 2010 04:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Namita Bhandare, Bhutan
Mountain echoes
Arshi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, the 'chief royal patron' of Bhutan's first-ever literature festival delivers the keynote address at the India House Auditorium. Namita Bhandare elaborates.
Updated on May 21, 2010 04:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Namita Bhandare, New Delhi
What a cover-up!
Belgium is planning to ban the burqa to ‘liberate’ women. But coercion seldom results in change, writes Namita Bhandare.
Updated on May 09, 2010 09:46 PM IST
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The eyes have it
This is not only a valued collection of photos of a nation in flux but it also restores visual archiving to its rightful place, writes, Namita Bhandare.
Updated on Apr 23, 2010 11:57 PM IST
An unnecessary link
The fracas over Amitabh Bachchan’s presence at the Bandra-Worli sealink opening is silly, writes Namita Bhandare.
Updated on Mar 25, 2010 08:53 PM IST
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When life offers you lemons...
In 2005, the euphoria surrounding the Commonwealth Games to be held in New Delhi had already set in. The media couldn’t seem to get enough stories on how the capital was on its way to becoming a ‘world-class city’. There was hope everywhere of new beginnings.
Updated on Mar 19, 2010 11:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Namita Bhandare
Priyanka charms all despite heat
In her bright blue sari, smile firmly in place it’s hard to believe that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (37) is standing bang at the epicentre of a whirlwind of confusion and dust of Rae Barely. A cavalcade of some 50 journalists, both print and television, local police, her own Special Protection Group and Congress party workers are in attendance.
Updated on Apr 24, 2009 02:01 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Namita Bhandare, Rae Bareilly
She’s a player who plays by her own rules
There’s a story, most likely apocryphal, relating to Mayawati’s visit to a posh beauty parlour at a five-star hotel.
Updated on Mar 22, 2009 12:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Namita Bhandare
Clueless, defenceless
In a crisis, people need two things: a plan to effectively counter it (or even better, to prevent it), and strong and resolute leaders. Our real tragedy is that we seem to have neither, writes Namita Bhandare.
Updated on Nov 30, 2008 10:30 PM IST
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Thuggery means always having to say sorry
Raj Thackeray is a chip off the old block, yet another one-trick pony from the Sena stable, writes Namita Bhandare.
Updated on Sep 11, 2008 09:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Namita Bhandare
Breaking noose
In the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case one thing is clear: nobody — English or Hindi, tabloid or broadsheet, print or TV — has come out smelling of roses, writes Namita Bhandare.
Updated on Jul 15, 2008 11:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Namita Bhandare, New Delhi
A tale of two urban legends
Tragically, neither city delivers on issues that should matter most to its citizens: infrastructure; law and order; a modern mindset that includes involved citizens, writes Namita Bhandare.
Updated on May 18, 2008 11:08 PM IST
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The All-Rounder
Although he’s supremely conscious of the role his father has played, and continues to play, in his life, you suspect that Jyotiraditya Scindia is not the kind of person to look back with regret. Namita Bhandare tells us more about this Gen Y MP.
Updated on Apr 12, 2008 01:54 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Namita Bhandare
Writes of passage
In a literature festival, the only stars should be the writers. All other taaras should stay in another zameen, writes Namita Bhandare.
Updated on Jan 30, 2008 10:27 PM IST
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And what is it to you?
We have every right to ask our politicians to be honest, efficient and effective, what they do in their off-hours is entirely their business, writes Namita Bhandare.
Updated on Jan 09, 2008 10:39 PM IST
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Mum’s the word
If Mother’s Day is to have any real meaning, it must go beyond platitudes. Years after the women’s movement hoped to bring about equality, nothing much has changed, writes Namita Bhandare.
Updated on May 15, 2007 01:37 AM IST
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Big packets bring bigger worries, finds HT survey
Executives nowadays are paying for high salaries with endless work hours and poor quality of family life, writes Namita Bhandare.
Updated on Mar 17, 2007 12:03 PM IST
None | Namita Bhandare, New Delhi
No working woman, no cry
How does a modern woman strike a work-life balance? Seema Goswami has answers, says Namita Bhandare.
Published on Feb 08, 2007 05:29 PM IST
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Traveller who saw many worlds
Those who knew Rabindra Seth call him the 'forever man', writes Namita Bhandare.
Published on Feb 01, 2007 03:55 AM IST
None | Namita Bhandare, New Delhi
Middle class loves to splurge
The segment that's powerful enough to shape India's destiny is the one most of us belong to. HT does a reality check
Published on Jan 29, 2007 03:12 AM IST
None | Namita Bhandare, New Delhi
New middle class mantra is spending
It prefers a good lifestyle to a simple one, an HT-CNN IBN survey shows, reports Namita Bhandare.
Published on Jan 26, 2007 09:47 PM IST
None | Namita Bhandare, New Delhi
Rushdie-Naipaul: Mirror images?
The ground beneath Rushdie?s feet has shifted and now he is eerily like his old bete noire Naipaul, says Namita Bhandare.
Published on Jan 23, 2007 03:02 PM IST
None | Namita Bhandare, New Delhi
In Sir Vidia's shadow
Salman Rushdie and VS Naipaul in some mysterious way, have turned into mirror images of each other, writes Namita Bhandare.
Updated on Jan 23, 2007 04:33 AM IST
None | By Namita Bhandare