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Bansari Kamdar
Bansari Kamdar is a Boston-based multimedia journalist and researcher.
Bansari Kamdar is a Boston-based multimedia journalist and researcher. She is currently pursuing a post-graduate degree in Applied Economics and has an MA from Boston University in International Relations. Kamdar writes on the intersection of gender, security and political economy in South Asia. Her work has appeared in The Wire, The Quint, CNN-News18, and other outlets. She has also worked on news packages and audience engagement for WCVB-TV and FRONTLINE PBS and produced a podcast on a global development policy.
Follow her on Twitter at @bansarikamdar.
August 08, 2021
Sexual Violence Against India’s Most Vulnerable
By Bansari Kamdar
A Dalit girl was gang-raped, murdered and forcibly cremated in New Delhi.
July 30, 2021
The Gendered Impact of Uttar Pradesh’s Population Control Bill
By Bansari Kamdar
Improving women’s access to family planning and education would be a better way to control population growth.
July 07, 2021
Muslim Women in India ‘Auctioned’ Online Using GitHub
By Bansari Kamdar
Activists, artists and journalists found their names and photographs displayed on the site without their consent.
June 15, 2021
Poor Access to Safe Abortions Is Killing South Asian Women
By Bansari Kamdar
Even in countries where abortion is legal, access to safe abortions remains challenging
June 15, 2021
Bhutan’s Health Minister on Navigating the Pandemic as a Small State
By Bansari Kamdar
Dechen Wangmo, the 44-year-old health minister of Bhutan and the newly elected president of the World Health Assembly, shares her goals for advancing world health.
May 14, 2021
India Must Impose a One-Time Tax on the Mega Rich to Fund Its Vaccination Program
By Bansari Kamdar and Javaid Iqbal
The pandemic has highlighted India’s extreme income inequality -- and will mostly likely worsen it.
April 23, 2021
India Needs Targeted COVID-19 Lockdowns
By Bansari Kamdar and Javaid Iqbal
With lengthy blanket lockdowns economically and politically impossible, to save lives India needs urgent action.
April 09, 2021
‘My Good Fight’: Being a Woman in Afghanistan’s Politics
By Bansari Kamdar
Hosna Jalil on fighting harassment, discrimination, and death threats as one of Afghanistan’s highest-ranking female officials.
March 22, 2021
India Detains Rohingya Refugees and Plans Deportation
By Bansari Kamdar
Under the Modi government, India's stance on Rohingya refugees is contrary to a long-standing informal position.
March 09, 2021
Gendered Land: Sri Lankan Women Battle Unequal Access to Resources
By Bansari Kamdar
A variety of legal and social hurdles stand in the way of land ownership by Sri Lankan women.
January 28, 2021
Is India Living up to Its Constitution?
By Bansari Kamdar
While the Indian constitution, celebrated every year on January 26, has an enlightened, egalitarian outlook, contemporary India’s reality tells a different story.
January 04, 2021
Death Penalty for Rape: An Ineffective Lethal Lottery in South Asia
By Bansari Kamdar
Instead of instituting capital punishment, governments need to address the social and legal problems underpinning the region's epidemic of sexual violence.
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