Neena Bhandari is a Sydney-based foreign correspondent and freelance journalist. She is a regular contributor to SciDev.net, Inter Press Service (IPS), InDepth News Analysis (IDN), BBC Indian Languages, and various mainstream international and national publications. She started her career with India’s leading national daily, The Times of India, in 1985. She has since worked in India, the United Kingdom and Australia, reporting on a range of issues from health and science, environment and development, travel and indigenous affairs, to gender and human rights.