Lalita Panicker leads the opinion section at Hindustan Times. Over a 33-year career, she has specialised in gender issues, reproductive health, child rights, politics and social engineering.
Articles by Lalita Panicker
'Gender-sensitive judicial system is need of the hour'
The catalyst for empowering women and ensuring their rights is a gender-sensitive judicial system. If a comprehensive justice system were in place, social, economic and political rights for women would fall in place, said Lakshmi Puri, assistant secretary-general and deputy executive director of UN Women.
Updated on Jul 06, 2011 11:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker, New Delhi
In sickness and death
The recent spate of infant deaths prove that subsidised public healthcare for the poor exists only in name, writes Lalita Panicker.
Updated on Jul 05, 2011 09:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker
Build on the positives
As the fourth phase of India’s Aids control programme approaches, we need to focus much more on a wider gamut of prevention services, writes Lalita Panicker.
Updated on Nov 20, 2011 11:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker
It’s time to see red
Loktantra Divas which was a week ago to mark the historic moment in 2006 when public protests forced King Gyanendra to withdraw emergency and restore a Parliament that he had unceremoniously sacked a year earlier should have been one of joy unconfined. Lalita Panicker writes.
Updated on May 01, 2011 09:35 PM IST
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Last of the godmen?
With the passing away of Sathya Sai Baba, the age of ‘godmen’ — seen to be incarnations of god who perform miracles — may be over. But does this mean an end to the marketplace of messiahs? That’s another matter altogether... Lalita Panicker writes. Of Godmen & Gurus | Babas | Swamijis
Updated on May 01, 2011 01:18 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker
She's got a real nose for coffee
Mmm, cinnamon, butterscotch, raisin, raspberry, blueberry, saidone. The undertone is one of mango, orange cream, marzipan, pineapple, milkchocolate, said another.
Updated on Apr 23, 2011 11:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker
In Muslim heartland, IUML in a league of its own
The symbol of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) is appropriately a ladder. After all it has used its clout in the Muslim heartland of Kerala, the fabled Malabar region, to steadily climb into a powerful position. Lalita Panicker reports.
Updated on Apr 13, 2011 03:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker, Kozhikode
Lost in the backwaters
Kerala does not need just a change in political rhetoric and intent. It needs a paradigm shift in mindset that need not be politically driven, writes Lalita Panicker.
Updated on Oct 10, 2011 12:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker
IUML in a league of its own in Kerala
The symbol of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) is appropriately a ladder. It has used its clout in the Muslim heartland of Kerala, the fabled Malabar region, to steadily climb into a powerful position. Lalita Panicker reports.
Updated on Apr 10, 2011 07:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker, Kozhikode
The men who may wear the coveted crown
Pradesh Congress Committee chief Ramesh Chennithala is vocal, and has a sense of humour to boot. Having arrived in this bustling town after whirlwind pit stops, the man who might be king in Kerala appears to have no doubts about the United Democratic Front (UDF) victory. Lalita Panicker reports.
Updated on Apr 10, 2011 07:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker, Haripad
An old fight still continues: Gowri amma vs Achuthanandan
The old fight between the United Democratic Front and the Left Democratic Front has become the fight between the old. Lalita Panicker reports.
Updated on Apr 05, 2011 11:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker, Palakkad
Women tune in to Tharoor
The local candidate for the United Democratic Front, AT George, greets 'star' campaigner Shashi Tharoor. Lalita Panicker and Ramesh Babu report.
Updated on Apr 11, 2011 03:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker and Ramesh Babu, Thiruvananthapuram
‘Immunisation up, infrastructure better’
Listening to her mellifluent tones, it is easy to believe that states like Bihar and UP could become exemplars of how good governance can dramatically change health indicators. Over 12 years, Melinda French Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has worked tirelessly to promote immunisation in India's poorest states like Bihar.
Updated on Mar 24, 2011 02:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker
No shot in the arm
Half of India's health problems will be solved if preventive care is made a priority. One way of doing this is to give more weightage to vaccines, writes Lalita Panicker.
Updated on Sep 10, 2011 07:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker
The caravan moves on
Barbary pirates once roamed the Atlantic seaboard of this poor nation at the edge of the fierce Sahara desert.
Updated on Mar 12, 2011 12:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker
Grim tales from Gaza
It is difficult to read I Shall Not Hate, a remarkable book by Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish, without your eyes welling up with tears.
Updated on Mar 11, 2011 10:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker
Playing out his roles
Tamil cinema legend Gemini Ganesan presented in his many avatars
Updated on Feb 04, 2011 11:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker
The 'argumentative' American
Economics may not seem to many a compelling argument to do away with the death penalty. Lalita Panicker reports.
Updated on Jan 29, 2011 11:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker, New Delhi
A life full of beans
In the remote Araku Valley in Andhra Pradesh, tribals are taking control of their lives with the help of coffee and without taking recourse to government hand-outs, writes Lalita Panicker.
Updated on May 30, 2011 10:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker
Posterboy of causes on a new mission
The sphinx-like Meira Kumar was anxious to meet him, the glacially opaque Pranab Mukherjee popped out of his room to greet him, Sushma Swaraj hugged him to her maternal personage and to the young MPs, he was one of the lads. In his red bandana and startlingly black moustache, the Peter Pan of the Hindi film industry, Aamir Khan looks like a confusing replica of Jack Sparrow.
Updated on Dec 04, 2010 11:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker, New Delhi
Weaving the threads of a success story
Like the Jensen and Nicholson ad, that for the iconic Fabindia chain of stores could be, whenever you see fabric, think of us. Except, of course, that the store today stocks everything from the ubiquitous kurtas, to home accessories, to furnishings to organic food.
Updated on Nov 26, 2010 09:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker
Why this law is not what I need
In the days when I was a Don Quixotic feminist tilting at the windmills of gender injustice, I found that I had been chosen to be part of the sexual harassment committee in my previous workplace.
Updated on Nov 13, 2010 11:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker
Betting on ol’ Blighty
Just when you were wondering what more could be written on England in general and its Indian diaspora in particular comes Vijay Dutt’s kaleidoscopic book Times by the Thames: An Indian Cruise.
Updated on Nov 13, 2010 12:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker
No place of their own
The latest UNDP Human Development Report 2010 is a bit of downer on the gender front even as images of Michelle Obama tripping the light fantastic fade away, says Lalita Panicker.
Updated on May 21, 2011 04:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker
People not like us
With the Games over, the ‘banished’ are back in Delhi. Now would be a good time to come up with a solution to their accommodation problems, writes Lalita Panicker.
Updated on May 13, 2011 12:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker
Hearing your heartbeat
Check in to Hyderabad airport. You may not want to ever leave, Lalita Panicker explores...
Updated on Jul 07, 2010 09:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker
Fighting a loan battle
For as long as I can remember, my father in his weekly sermon would tell me ‘neither a lender nor a borrower be’. Well, it’s easier said than done as I discovered when trying to pay back a bank loan well before time. Writes Lalita Panicker.
Updated on Jun 24, 2010 11:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker, New Delhi
Not a bill of goods
For many women, empowerment is not about a seat in Parliament. It’s about the ability to survive in a harsh milieu, says Lalita Panicker
Updated on Jun 14, 2010 01:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker, New Delhi
After the storm
Political supernova and Kerala MP Shashi Tharoor is rediscovering his Malayali roots – and making a determined effort to reinvent himself.
Updated on Jun 12, 2010 05:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker, New Delhi
God’s forgotten country
A tribute to two southern states and their rich cultural heritage writes Lalita Panicker about Glimpses of Kerala Culture and Travancore: The Footprints of Destiny.
Updated on May 22, 2010 01:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker