Namita Bhandare

Refusing to accept Maxim Editor’s apology, actress Khushboo has filed a petition with Chennai Police. There is a new twist to the Maxim-Khushboo tale. Ever since the lad mag Maxim published an admittedly morphed picture of the southern film star — using her face on the body of a woman dressed in underwear — Khushboo […]

Chanda Shroff is the moving force behind a project that sustains thousands of families, reports Namita Bhandare. HT Image She’s an unlikely social crusader. Conservatively dressed, married into a wealthy Mumbai-based family of industrialists, Chanda Shroff is the moving force behind a project that sustains thousands of families in drought-prone Kutch. Chandaben, or Kaki as

Swiss International Air Lines is not out to spoil you silly. But it scores on ? quality, reliability, and hospitality? ott:10:ht-entertainment_listing-desktop HT Image It’s funny how airlines acquire their own image. Take Virgin Atlantic. No matter how much on the straight and narrow you are, flying Virgin will conjure up all sorts of images —

In November last year, the rape of a Maulana Azad Medical College student in broad daylight focused attention on how unsafe Delhi had become for women. A public furor broke out and Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani declared that convicted rapists should be given the death sentence. In popular perception, death for rapists — failing

A consensual theme that emerged from HT Leadership Initiative was ‘need to open borders, extend dialogue and expand understanding among South Asian nations’. HT Image If there was one consensual theme that emerged from the two-day Hindustan Times Leadership Initiative on “Peace Dividend — Progress for India and South Asia”, it was this: the need to open

For a place to treat its homeless they way it does, Delhi is one callous city. Namita Bhandare writes HT Image On a foggy winter afternoon early this week, I went looking for the invisible and found Bibi Ayesha, wheelchair-bound, lean, with a grin and optimism placed equally on her face. Bibi is telling me

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 We are in danger of losing this gain due to the pandemic. As this newspaper reported, 166,000 students, girls and boys, in Delhi government and municipal schools have

Seldom has the State’s concern to protect one half of its citizens been so high So many laws, still no solution. Perhaps because there’s a contradiction here. The contradiction in wanting to protect women but within the decorous folds of patriarchy (Hindustan Times) Seldom has the State’s concern to protect one half of its citizens