Threats, attacks, slander : The cost of fighting caste atrocities in India

Arokiasamy Vincent Raj, popularly known as Evidence Kathir works to defend the rights of Dalits in Tamil Nadu. His organization has recently won the...

Kerala govt cancels aid to Dalit auto driver Chitralekha, Abu Dhabi organisation steps in

By Shafeeq Hudawi, Twocircles.net Over the past decade or so, Chitralekha, a Dalit auto driver has been at the receiving end of abuse and threats...

What does EWS quota mean for SC, ST, OBCs?

The Supreme Court's reservation for economically weaker sections, especially for the forward castes, has sprung up a debate that it will only create...

A festival in Tamil Nadu to honour folk artists from marginalized communities

The festival, titled “Veethi Virudhu Vizha (The Street Award Ceremony)” in its ninth year, has provided a platform for Dalit and other marginalized...

‘दूषित मानसिकता वाले लोग अब बहुजन समाज को कमज़ोर समझने की भूल न करें…’

TwoCircles.net News Desk लखनऊ : दलित मुद्दों पर काम करने वाली भारतीय समन्वय संगठन ‘लक्ष्य’ द्वारा बहुजन समाज के अधिकार, उन पर बढ़ते हुए अत्याचार...

A Tribute to Raju Kamble from a Father and Daughter

Dear All, Jai Bheem and Namo Buddhaya, The loss of my dear friend Rajkumar D Kamble (I call him mottu with love, for which he never...

दलित साहित्य समारोह, दूसरे साहित्य समारोह के बीच में एक अलग पहचान

मीना कोटवाल, Twocircles.net दिल्ली। देश में कई तरह के साहित्यिक समारोह होते हैं। लेकिन पिछले दो साल से दिल्ली में दलित साहित्य समारोह का आयोजन किया...

How Tamil filmmaker Pa Ranjith is bringing marginalised into the mainstream

The brain behind several hit films in Tamil, Pa Ranjith is forcing us to confront caste in all its complexities. Smitha R | TwoCircles.net NEW DELHI...

Dalits, Adivasi children locked out of education during Covid-19 lockdown: new report

The report reveals that only 4% of Dalit and Adivasi children have been attending online classes regularly, as opposed to 15% of children overall. Suchitra...

Amidst bleak future, Safai Karamcharis of Godhra have little interest in upcoming state elections

By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Photos by Pratik Parmar Last year, the nation woke up to atrocities faced by Dalits in our Prime Minister’s Home state of...

Beating of 3 Paraya boys in Kozhikode unpack existing caste-violence in Kerala

By Ashfaque EJ, TwoCircles.net Kozhikode: “It’s been a week after we got beaten and casteist slurs were used against us. The police have failed to...

This education Centre in Mumbai named after Rohit Vemula offers education, training to underprivileged...

By Aparajita Ghosh, TwoCircles.net   Mumbai: A group of young students of Mumbai’s Phule Nagar have collectively started an education centre naming it after PhD scholar...

New report by NDMJ-SASY reveals surge in atrocities against Dalits, Adivasis amid COVID-19 lockdown

TCN News National Dalit Movement for Justice (NDMJ), headquartered in New Delhi, has released a detailed report on increasing human rights violation cases against Dalits,...

A marriage of, for and with self-respect: Remembering Periyar 140 years after his birth...

By Daisy Katta, TwoCircles.net The news of the caste killing of Pranay in Telangana has sent shockwaves throughout India. This is not an isolated incident...

In pictures: Dalits, Adivasis protest across the nation against change in SC/ST Act

By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net The ruling of the Supreme Court of India pertaining to the Schedule Caste/ Schedule Tribe Act resulted in a “Bharat Bandh”...

For these girls living in Delhi’s slums, education is a dream fraught with violence,...

By Suprakash Majumdar, TwoCircles.net The first thing Janaki does in the morning is to help her mother prepare food. Beside the chulha (a stove), covering her face...

Dalit activists organise second ‘Villuvandi Yatra’ in Kerala in wake of Sabarimala protests

By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net 2018 marks the 125th anniversary of the famous ‘Villuvandi (ox-wagon) Yatra’ of Mahatma Ayyankali in Kerala. In commemoration of the historic...

दलित मुस्लिम जाट एकजुटता का संदेश दे गई महागठबंधन की पहली रैली

आसमोहम्मद कैफ, Twocircles.net देवबंद- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAweqEVvo4Y&feature=youtu.be भायला गांव महागठबंधन रैली स्थल के एकदम करीब है. राजपूत बहुल इस गांव के सैकड़ों लोग रैली में पहुंचे थे. इसी गांव के राजेन्द्र...

The cruel irony of Human Rights Day

By Abdullah Khan 10 December is internationally celebrated as the International Human Rights Day. In 1950, the United Nations declared 10 December as the International...

Ashit Sable: A young documentary maker highlighting the role of Shahiris of Maharashtra

By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net In its purest sense, the role of an artist has always been to work for the empowerment and enlightenment of the...

दलितों की लड़ाई के अहम योद्धा मंगनाराम मेघवाल

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नोखा (राजस्थान)- इस शहर का एक गुमनाम लड़का जब यह बोलता है कि ‘मुझ जैसे गरीब के पास खोने के लिए...

Dalit auto rickshaw driver Chitralekha attacked allegedly by CPI (M) workers

By Shafeeq Hudawi Kozhikode: While the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and its associate organisations have been vociferously protesting against the crackdown in JNU and...

#BreakingCaste: Sujatha Gidla shines reading from Ants Among Elephants

By Valli Karunakaran, TwoCircles.net New York City, March 10, 2018 — Sujatha Gidla was among the authors invited to speak at #Breaking Caste, a literary...

SASG urges UN Special Rapporteur to investigate the spiral of human rights violations in...

TCN News London: The London based human rights organization South Asia Solidarity Group (SASG) has launched an online petition urging UN Special Rapporteur Rita Izsák-Ndiaye...

Students across Mumbai come out in support of Fathima Latheef, JNU students

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter As the protests across both IIT Madras and JNU surged with more and more students coming out on the streets, hundreds...

Indian Americans express outrage over mob lynchings in India through protests across US

T​CN News ​ The Alliance for Justice and Accountability (AJA), an umbrella coalition of progressive organizations across the United States and various coalition partners held protests...

Transwomen turn teachers for Dalit children in Bengal

By Sahana Ghosh Malda/Kolkata, (IANS): Motherhood transcends gender. Unconditional love knows no caste barriers. Defying norms, in a rundown neighbourhood in Malda in West Bengal, transwoman Arindam...

How a new documentary aims to break the “upper”-caste hegemony over who ‘explains’ Ambedkar

By Daisy K, TwoCircles.net How does one interpret the life and works of Dr BR Ambedkar? Who speaks for, about him, and where? What is...

Sumeet Samos releases another awesome song ‘Desia Pila Area Khali’

TCN News Sumeet Samos, the young rapper from the Dalit community in Orissa has released yet another song titled “Desia Pila Area Khali” wherein he...

I Feel Unmistakable Sense of Belonging: Rishab Dahiya, the Photographer Behind  Powerful Photographs of...

Aatika S | Twocircles.net Aatika S. interviews Rishab Dahiya, a dalit photographer and a filmmaker who is famous for clicking powerful pictures of members of...

TCN – Seed Apprenticeship Program 2021

The TCN-SEED Apprenticeship offers aspiring journalists an opportunity to build their communication skills and professional network under the guidance of experienced mentors. The vision...

Equality, diversity, inclusion: a new concept of future museums

Dr Fatma Faheem Every year on 18 May since 1977, the International Museum Day is observed to raise awareness among people about museums, which are...

Campaign to provide clothes to Dalit Adivasi children in Maharashtra during Ramadan a huge...

By Imran Inamdar, TwoCircles.net On May 24, TwoCircles.net published a story which showed a unique attempt to bring a smile to the faces of Dalit...

In Maharashtra, Dalits rise to claim grazing land that was promised to them decades...

By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net The question of land ownership for people who work and toil on it has been asked for over 50 years now...

Blue is the warmest colour: How Ambedkar Jayanti was celebrated at Parliament Street in...

Aatika S, TwoCircles.net Every year lakhs of Dalits, Bahujan and Adivasi gather at Parliament Street in Delhi along with their allies to celebrate the birth...

Rajasthan has become a living hell for Dalits: Renu Meghwanshi, state secretary, Mahila Congress

Renu Meghwanshi is no stranger to fighting against Dalit atrocities. She might be contesting from the Congress now, but prior to this, she was...

MIM appeals supporters to join Mumbai’s Dalit mass protest on July 22

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: In yet another attempt to portray it to be the party of Muslims and Dalits, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen...

Fact-finding team demands SIT investigation to ensure justice for Telangana honour killing victim

By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net A fact-finding team from Civil liberties monitoring committee (CLMC) visited Miryalguda and the house of Permulla Balaswamy,  father of the late...

Dalit lorry driver killed by Tamil Nadu Special Forces in custody, alleges family

By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Kancheepuram (Tamil Nadu): On the evening of February 12, Suresh, 33, from Gandhi Nagar, Orikkai, in Kancheepuram district of Tamil...

For this Dalit artist, ‘art is integral part of her community’

Dalit artist Shrujana Niranjani Shridhar sees in art the opportunity to tell the unadulterated story of her community. Musheera Ashraf of TwoCircles.net writes on...

Kishor Kharat appointed as CEO and MD of IDBI bank

By Yogesh Maitreya, Twocircles.net, Mumbai: Kishor Kharat has been appointed as the CEO and MD of IDBI Bank. The announcement was made on August 14,...

Rupesh Kumar: A filmmaker, academic, journalist with the sole aim of destroying casteism

By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net The world of activism cannot function within boundaries, and for Kannur resident Rupesh Kumar, this statement is apt: he is...

चन्द्रशेखर पर रासुका के बाद ‘रिफार्म’ हुई भीम आर्मी

आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net मेरठ : रासुका की कार्रवाई से सरकार के रुख को देखते हुए दलितों में भीम आर्मी चीफ़ चन्द्रशेखर आज़ाद ‘रावण’ के प्रति...

Kanhaiya Kumar, other leaders call for ‘non-cooperation movement’ against CAB and NRC in Kolkata...

By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net The streets of Kolkata witnessed a massive protest march against the Centre’s move on the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) 2019,...

Police searches at slums in Hyderabad spark fear among slum dwellers

The recent searches carried out by police in several slums in Hyderabad has drawn the ire of the slum-dwellers, who are predominantly Muslim, Dalits...

DU professor on why legislation is needed to prevent caste discrimination in higher educational...

Professor N. Sukumar's new book studies the exclusion and discrimination against Scheduled Caste (SC) students in the Indian higher education system and the...

Yogesh Maitreya’s Flower on the Grave of Caste gives space and voice to Dalit...

By Dipankar Kamble for TwoCircles.net  Author- Yogesh Maitreya  Publisher- Panther’s Paw Publications  Cost- Rs 299 ISBN- 9788193290576 Yogesh Maitreya’s stories are not stories which we read in mainstream books....

Vidya Bhushan and Thenmozhi honored by Ambedkar Association of North America

By TCN News, New York: In a three day celebration of Buddha Jayanti-Vesak Day and 125th Birth Anniversary of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Dr....

दंगाइयों को समझा रहे पूर्व बसपा विधायक को पुलिस ने भेज दिया जेल, वीडियो...

आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net मेरठ : दलितों के 2 अप्रैल को किए गए भारत बंद के दौरान हुई हिंसा के बाद अब राजनीति गहरा...

Dalit anger: BJP’s hard core is its own enemy

By Amulya Ganguli The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) owes much of its woes to the reluctance of its core constituency of urban, upper caste, conservative,...

Should caste matter?

By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Caste system in India, according to a large number of historians and intellectuals began with the advent of the Aryans and...

Ambedkarism on the canvas: Artist Navin Chahande’s attempt to bring caste to art’s discourse

By Daisy Katta, TwoCircles.net Artist Navin Chahande does not like to prove his point using abstract forms. He says his art is direct. Navin is...

A Dalit Groom Rides a Horse Under Police Protection in MP, Challenges India’s Caste...

Akansha Deshmukh, TwoCircles.net A wedding procession moves along a kaccha road of Bharatpura, a remote village in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur district. On both sides, humble...

Why hundreds of Dalits were unable to vote in Bhagana, Haryana

By Inder Bisht, TwoCircles.net Initial reports from Haryana are indicating that neither the BJP nor the Congress is emerging as a clear winner in the...

Ambedkar King Study Circle Concludes Annual Conference in California

By TCN News Around 120 people gathered with enthusiasm and engaged in lively discussions at Ambedkar King Study Circle's (AKSC) 2nd annual conference held on...

पसमांदा मुस्लिम समाज के राष्ट्रीय अधिवेशन में CAA का जबरदस्त विरोध

By आस मोहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net लखनऊ- शनिवार को आयोजित किए गए पसमांदा मुस्लिम समाज के 8वें राष्ट्रीय अधिवेशन में CAA का मुद्दा छाया रहा।यहां वक्ताओं...

A day ahead of ‘grand-alliance’ rally, Pasmanda Muslims’ meet turn out to be a...

’If no party, including the BJP, comes to seek support, PMM may field 30-40 candidates.’ By Abhay Kumar for TwoCircles.net, Patna: Held in the shadow...

Two months after being attacked by SFI cadre, Dalit student continues to wait for...

By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net This is the third and final part of a three-part series of stories documenting caste discrimination against Dalit, Bahujan and...

Mazdoor Kitchen: A melange of love, salt and labour

By Aatika S | TwoCircles Nida Ansari, is a Delhi based development practitioner and consultant with over 12 years of experience in working with national...

Glorifying self: Modi’s gimmick of washing feet of sanitary workers

By Ram Puniyani Gimmicks are a part of Modi's style of politics. Rather they form the core of his strategies. His act of washing the feet...

‘We were loyal supporters of BJP,’ Bengali Colony residents anguished with eviction notices

A Dalit majority area consisting of more than 25,000 houses situated near the Tughlaqabad Fort in New Delhi is facing the threat of...

राजपूतों और व्यवस्था की शिकार एक दलित लड़की

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net वैशाली: बिहार में सरकार का चेहरा बदल गया है, मगर मिज़ाज नहीं बदले हैं. पिछले शासनकाल में एक दलित लड़की सीमा...

SDPI’s 25-day-long countrywide protest against mob lynching concludes in New Delhi

TCN News New Delhi: Today Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) organized street demonstrations across the country, in all assembly constituencies and districts of 14...

Dalits, Adivasis in India pushed out of higher education during Covid-19, new report finds...

A new study by National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) has found out that with stark social divides, the pandemic has visibilised and...

Aalaap: First movie out of Chhatisgarh will take on Naxalism head on

By TCN News, Mumbai: Chhattisgarh is caught between Capitalism and Naxalism. A group of people who hail from the region are making a movie to change the perception of the region.

‘This is our home from generations:’ residents of Haldwani on eviction orders

Haldwani residents, majority of whom are Muslim, have challenged the Uttarakhand High Court's eviction order in the Supreme Court, which will hear the plea...

आदिवासी बच्चों को उनकी जड़ों से अलग करते बस्तर के ये स्कूल

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net दंतेवाड़ा/सुकमा (छत्तीसगढ़) : बस्तर में चल रहे स्कूल ज्ञान के केंद्र होने के बजाय अज्ञान के कीड़े साबित होते जा रहे...

Research fellowship hiked for others; SC/ST, minority scholars feel let down by govt’s biased...

By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Research fellows belonging to the scheduled caste, scheduled tribes and minority communities across the country are feeling let down alleging that the central government overlooked them from the recent fellowship hike that their counterparts from other categories received.

Thousands gather to pay respect to Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar on Mahaparinirvan Diwas: A photo...

December 6 marks the death anniversary of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. Like every year, thousands of people from across the nation gathered at Chaitanyabhoomi in...

Wearing slogans on sleeves: Rupali Jadhav designs her activism on T-shirts

33-year-old Rupali Jadhav started designing and selling T-shirts in early 2020, a year after the arrest of six activists of Kabir Kala Manch (KKM). Riya...

Dalit man chops off finger after accidently voting for BJP

Lucknow, April 19 (IANS) A Dalit man, who accidentally cast his vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr, has chopped...

Myth of meritocracy: Dalit rapper, anti-caste activist Sumeet Samos’s journey from a boarding school...

Sumeet Samos is an anti-caste rapper and an activist from Odisha, India. His rap fiercely confronts the caste system with a searing critique of...

रियल बिहार : “हम घर से बाहर कम ही निकलते हैं। गांव के लोग...

बिहार चुनाव: बिहार के मुसलमानों को क्यों पसंद नहीं है नीतीश कुमार का विकास- ग्राउंड रिपोर्ट प्रतिभाशाली रिपोर्टर मीना कोतवाल इस समय बिहार में है...

“Being Dalit in India is a sin,” Saharanpur’s Dalits recount facing caste-discrimination all their...

By Musheera Ashraf, TwoCircles.net Saharanpur: Dalit’s represent over one-sixth of India’s population. The Indian constitution outlaws caste discrimination and the practice of ‘untouchability’. It prohibits...

Unable to pay bribe, Dalit woman in Kerala denied treatment in government hospital

By Shafeeq Hudawi, Twocircles.net Kasargod: A Dalit woman in Kasargod district of Kerala has alleged that she was denied treatment by government hospital...

How Savarna feminism is eroding the discourse on the Hathras case?

By Pragathi Ravi On September 14, 2020, a 19-year-old Dalit woman was brutally gang-raped by four Thakur men in Uttar Pradesh, where she later succumbed...

Obituary to Ambedkarite poet and writer, Ketan Pimpalapure

By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net Mr. Ketan Pimpalapure, a poet, writer and journalist died in the month of July 31st, 2015. He was...

डेल्टा मेघवाल मरी नहीं, मारी गई है…

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नोखा (राजस्थान) : डेल्टा मेघवाल कौन थी? उसमें ऐसा क्या था? जो सभी को अपनी ओर खींचता था? वो क्या कर...

Indian diaspora in London mark Republic Day with protests against Hindutva, attacks on Dalits...

By M Ghazali Khan for TwoCircles.net Instead of hosting and participating in festivities, the UK-based Indian Diaspora marked the Republic Day by organising a protest...

Why is conversion to Buddhism so controversial?

In India, the right to profess, practice and propagate one’s own religion remains marred by socio-political lacunas as well as judicial travesty. Aatika S...

भीम आर्मी के समर्थन में अब गांव-गांव लगने लगे हैं ‘द ग्रेट चमार बोर्ड’

आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net मीरापुर : सहारनपुर से 110 किमी दूर मुज़फ़्फ़रनगर जनपद के थाना क्षेत्र मीरापुर में कैथोड़ा ग्राम पंचायत के अधीन एक गांव...

Why the Left parties are unlikely to achieve much without support from Ambedkarites

By Badre Alam Khan and Sanjay Kumar for TwoCircles.net The current debate within the CPI (M) has generated intensive discourse on the dilemmas to formulate...

भीम आर्मी के आह्वान पर सहारनपुर के दलितों ने नहीं मनाया होली का त्योहार

आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : सहारनपुर में इस बार दलितों ने होली नहीं मनाई. इसके लिए भीम आर्मी ने मुहिम चलाया था. इस...

SIO and GIO hold state conference in Kerala; Fatima Nafees attends

By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net The joint state conference of the Students Islamic Organisation and the Girls Islamic Organisation was held at the Al Jamia al...

Not all AIMIM party activists favour the split with VBA in Maharashtra

By Imran Inamdar, TwoCircles.net Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi a political tie-up between Asaduddin owaisi's All India Majlis Ittihadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and Prakash Ambedkar's Bharip Bahujan Maha...

सहारनपुर के बाद अब मेरठ के सरधना में दलितों व राजपूतों के बीच खूनी...

TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter सरधना (मेरठ) : सहारनपुर के बाद अब मेरठ का सरधना क्षेत्र दलितों व राजपूतों के खूनी संघर्ष का गवाह बना. बुधवार को...

राजस्थान तो दलितों के लिए नरक जैसा है: रेनू मेघवंशी

आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net रेनू मेघवंशी राजस्थान में दलित उत्पीड़न के खिलाफ लड़ाइयां लड़ने के लिए जानी जाती है,यह वही है जिन्होंने डांगबास में दलितों...

Pratik Parmar: Challenging the Savarna hegemony with a camera in hand

By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Delhi: On a slightly chilly November evening, Pratik Parmar sat with about 30 people in a conference hall in...

आरक्षण और जातिवाद पर कंगना को पत्रकार मीना का करारा जवाब

डियर कंगना रनौत, आशा करती हूं कि आप एकदम अच्छी होंगी. कल मेरे सामने आपका एक ट्वीट आया जिसे पढ़कर बहुत दुख हुआ. शुरूआत में...

Art festival at TISS celebrates the colours of Bahujan resistance

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter The Mumbai campus of Tata Institute of Social Sciences was abuzz with the colours of Bahujan Art the past weekend as...

Marathi movie Khwada projects the rebel against upper-caste hegemony

By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net After Fandry, the Marathi movie Khwada, released on Oct 22, 2015, does a brilliant job of depicting lower castes’ struggle...

In Pictures: Amid pandemic, award winning Chennai based Dalit folk artist Karthick Annan takes...

Karthick Annan is a 35-year-old Dalit folk artist from Chennai, mastered in different folk art forms produced from an indigenous culture in Tamil Nadu...

‘हमारे ख़िलाफ़ हो रहे अत्याचार पर ये देवी-देवता चुप हैं, तो फिर हम इन्हें...

आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net मुज़फ़्फ़रनगर : 68 साल के बीड़ी जयंत मीरापुर में दलितों के सबसे बड़े मोहल्ले पछाला में रहते हैं. मोहल्ले के...

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By Yogesh Maitreya and Daisy Katta for TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: A discussion on ‘Caste Politics behind Arundhati Roy-Navayana’s Appropriation of ‘Annihilation of Caste’ was held at the Kalina campus of the University of Mumbai on 21st December 2014.

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Patna University gets first Dalit head of Hindi department in 86 years

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Muslims and Dalits to hold joint protest against demolition of Guru Ravidas temple

TCN News Representatives from the Muslim community have lent their support to the Dalit Community in their demand to re-build the Guru Ravidas temple at...

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Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani rejects invite to CPM programme in Kerala

By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net Kozhikode: Kerala CPI (M) leadership was left red faced after Jignesh Mevani, Una agitation leader, rejected the party’s invitation to attend...
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