Namita Bhandare

She’s an author, entrepreneur, speaker, mother and a proud feminist. Canada-born Eliza Reid, married to the president of Iceland, Gudni Johannesson is also a First Lady. Unshackled by protocol, Reid who once famously asserted that she is not her husband’s handbag is out with her first book, Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s extraordinary women and how […]

When Reena went into labour she was taken to the community health centre in rural Uttar Pradesh where she lives. By then she had begun to bleed and since the health centre didn’t have blood transfusion facilities, she was moved to a district hospital. Two hours later when she arrived at the hospital, she was

Source: letstalkconsent.com Most young adults know about the need for consent but struggle to negotiate it in their relationships, finds a recent survey by dating app Tinder. In fact, 70% of men said it was difficult for them to communicate effectively about consent, leaving partners in uncomfortable situations, found the survey of over 1,000 people aged 18-30

Same-sex couples and unmarried partners are entitled to legal protections and all the benefits available under social welfare legislation, noted a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court. Justices DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna said family can also take the form of ‘domestic, unmarried partnerships, or queer relationships’ while hearing a case on maternity leave benefits. It was

On Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was speaking at a conference of state labour ministers in New Delhi. “The future needs flexible workplaces, a work-from-home ecosystem and flexible work hours,” he said. These, he added, are “opportunities for women’s labour force participation.” To my mind, no prime minister has ever openly acknowledged India’s two-decade-old crisis in women’s

On India’s 75th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed on the need to support ‘nari shakti’ (women power) and called for a ‘change in the mentality’ towards women. Later that day, 11 men serving a life term after being convicted of gangraping and murdering 14 people in the 2002 Gujarat riots walked out of Godhra jail and went

Source: BREAKTHROUGH In a week dominated by chatter around Netflix’s new release, Darlings, comes the sombre news of yet another woman dying by suicide on August 3 after eight years of marriage and unceasing domestic violence. “I kept thinking he’ll reform,” Mandeep Kaur says of her husband Ranjodhbeer Singh Sandhu in a video that has gone viral ever since she

Until she was found on Friday, Pooja Gaud was Girl Number 166 in the missing girls’ file at Mumbai’s Dadabhai Naoroji Nagar police station. Nearly 10 years ago, on January 22, 2013, she had disappeared while on her way to school. Just seven-years-old then, she had squabbled with her elder brother over the sharing of a Rs

(Right, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and left, Droupadi Murmu) When Pratibha Patil was elected the first woman president of India in 2007, there was some discussion on whether the word rashtrapati could apply to a woman. Some felt that the word pati, literally a husband but also used in a larger sense of lord or head, was

It took a ruling by a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court to finally allow an unmarried woman to have an abortion at 24 weeks. The 25-year-old woman conceived while she was in a live-in relationship. At 18 weeks, her partner abandoned her. At 23 weeks and five days pregnant, the woman approached the Delhi high court