Namita Bhandare

Shailendra Singh (Image source: thenewsminute.com) Like many stories of its nature, this one begins anonymously on social media. On March 16, an unidentified person on Instagram’s Women of the Wild India handle posted allegations of a “history of sexual harassment” against Shailendra Singh, a top wildlife conservationist and the director of the Turtle Survival Alliance India (TSA India), […]

“And ladies,” she said accepting the Oscar for best actress “Don’t let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime. Never give up.” Michelle Yeoh (Source: Getty images) Michelle Yeoh, who will be 61 in August, had reason to celebrate many firsts. The first Asian to win an Oscar. Only the second woman of

Source: Feminisminindia.com Ok, imagine this. Every now and then, you get a godawful migraine where the slightest sound or teeniest bit of light leaves you in absolute agony. Would you go to work? Could you? Or put it another way, would you expect an employee to report to work in that condition? Now imagine, that

Source: medium.com I’ll spare you the graphic details of the abuse and torture of a minor girl by a couple in Gurugram, Manish Khattar and Kamaljeet Kaur. The 17-year-old daughter of Gond tribals had been brought from Simdega, Jharkhand by a placement agency and for the past five months had been caring for the couple’s three-and-a-half year old

Source: PTI That hardy perennial, the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), popping up with regularity ever since it was written as a desirable goal in the Constitution 74 years ago, has in the past few months been gaining traction. A private member’s bill to implement it nationwide was listed for introduction in the Lok Sabha during the Budget

On the first day of Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s “complete war” on child marriages, 1,800 people were arrested under provisions of the Prohibition of the Child Marriage act that puts the minimum age of marriage at 18 for women and 21 for men. Those arrested included 52 qazis or priests and many arrests are reported to have

When I quit my full-time job, my then boss wanted to know why. I loved my job, I told her. It gave me a sense of identity and pride. But it also left me with feeling terribly guilty. My girls were growing up, fast. Most days when I got home, I was just too wiped

Image source: Google Almost 100 years ago, Sarojini Naidu, one of the 15 women members of the Indian Constituent Assembly and a leading figure of the freedom struggle, asserted she was not a feminist. According to her, to be a feminist is to acknowledge that one is repressed. Hers was a particularly formal and somewhat