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Is Onam an inclusive festival?

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As people of Kerala celebrate Onam, this article tries to critically explore the emerging counter narrative of historically oppressed section against sustaining casteist tradition. By...

‘Safar-e-azadi’ by JKLF may usher in Federation of India.

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Ref: Federation of SAARC in the making. Dear Sir The chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Muhammad Yasin Malik reportedly said that JKLF would resume its 'Safar-e-Azadi' (March for freedom) from May 20 for the inclusion of Kashmiris, in the ongoing process for the resolution of Kashmir problem.

#TCN10: Some thoughts about the eventful journey

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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step: Chinese Philosopher Laozi By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net This month, TwoCircles.net – or TCN...

JNU Dalit student’s suicide issue raised in Lok Sabha

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New Delhi, (IANS): The issue of the alleged suicide by a Dalit student of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), J. Muthukrishnan, was raised in the...

After Lalu, Nitish, Manjhi also want caste census data release

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Patna: A day after Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad, Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar and his predecessor Jitan Ram Manjhi on Monday...

The culprits of 1993 Bombay serial blasts have

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The culprits of 1993 Bombay serial blasts have received their penalties for the retaliatory measures when, in the wake of the demolition of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya on the most tragic day of December, 6,1992, there were no traces of law or the guardians of law to check the massacre of Muslims on the streets of Bombay and else where in India. However, whatever must have been the circumstances, there cannot be any justification for such horrendous crimes which claimed hundreds of innocent lives. While nobody must feel pity for what the terrorists of Bombay

There is No Substitute for Love and No Substitute for Taj Mahal

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By Dr. B. R. Natarajan

To quote Emperor Shah Jahan who made the Taj Mahal "The sight of this mansion creates sorrowing sighs and makes sun and moon shed tears from their eyes. In this world this edifice has been made to display, thereby, the Creator's glory."

"Let the splendor of the diamond, pearl and ruby vanish like the magic shimmer of the rainbow. Only let this one teardrop, the Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time" is what Nobel Prize winner Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore said about the Taj Mahal.

Tension in Haryana’s Hisar after Dalit-Jat spat

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By IANS, Hisar : Tension prevailed in the Surya Nagar area of this Haryana district Tuesday after stray incidents of violence following a dispute between the members of the Dalit and Jat communities, police said. "Yesterday (Monday) night a buffalo, belonging to a member of Dalit community, collided with a vehicle that was owned by a Jat youth. At that time there were some heated arguments but the situation was somehow controlled," a police official said.

A letter to the Financial Reforms Committee of Planning Commission of India

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By Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai proposal for joint ventures in islamic banking in collaboration with international islamic banks and/or international banks with islamic banking operational expertise Financial Sector Reforms are needed, as per Mr. Raghuram G. Rajan's introductory remarks, to

Did Cabinet approve inclusion of the communities that are already in the OBC list?

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By TwoCircles.net staff reporter New Delhi: Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minster Narendra Modi yesterday approved amendments to the Central List of the Other...

हैदराबाद छात्र संघ चुनाव में अंबेडकरवादियों का जलवा

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हैदराबाद छात्र संघ चुनाव में अंबेडकर वादियों और सामाजिक न्याय के पैरोकारो ने झंडा गाड़ दिया है। एएसए,डीडीयू, एसएफआई और अंबेडकर स्टूडेंट्स एसोसिएशन गठबंधन...

BJP relies on caste factor in Bihar last phase

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By Imran Khan, Patna : More than Narendra Modi's appeal, the BJP seems to be banking on the caste arithmetic when the last lot of...

Panther Sena protests against move to install Shivaji statue in BAMU using students’ fund

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net It would be normal to assume that providing adequate facilities to students would be a priority for the administration of any...

Khabar Lahariya: Making rural media a force for change

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By Rupesh Dutta, New Delhi : It was never easy for Meera Jato, 42, to confront her in-laws' taunts, deal with household hassles and start the country's first rural language weekly "Khabar Lahariya" (News Wave) run only by women. It has in its short existence carved out a clear niche for itself in the ever-expanding media space in India.

Himachal tribal women don’t come under inheritance law

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By IANS, Shimla: Tribal women in Himachal Pradesh do not come under inheritance law if there is a male member in the family, Revenue Minister Kaul Singh said Tuesday.

Mayawati to visit Saharanpur on Tuesday

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Lucknow, (IANS): Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati is scheduled to visit Shabbirpur village in Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, where a caste conflict had...

9 months on, families evicted during building of RSS stalwart’s statue in Varanasi still...

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By Rohit Ghosh, TwoCircles.net Varanasi: Every season is harsh in Uttar Pradesh. Temperature touches the 45 degree Celsius mark in summers, while floods ravage the...

Dalit girl burnt alive in UP village

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Lucknow, (IANS): A young Dalit girl was burnt alive in an Uttar Pradesh village in Unnao district late last night, police said. Eighteen-year-old Moni was...

क्या महज़ राजनीति का मुद्दा है डेल्टा मेघवाल?

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net राजस्थान के नोखा शहर में एक प्रतिभाशाली लड़की को तंत्र की अमानवीयता के चलते अपनी जान से हाथ धोना पड़ा. डेल्टा...

Massachusetts hosts America’s first-ever Dalit art exhibition

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Organized by Adavi Myah, an art collective led by Dalit and Bahujan women, the exhibition will run for four weeks until May 30, 2022. BOSTON,...

Ramdev booked for comments on Rahul Gandhi

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Lucknow: An FIR was lodged against yoga guru Baba Ramdev Saturday for making "vulgar comments" against Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday, an official...

Dalit woman paraded naked in Punjab, one held

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By IANS, Batala (Punjab) : One person has been arrested for allegedly parading a Dalit woman naked in Punjab's Bhagwanpur village Aug 10, police said Monday. According to the police, the woman was allegedly paraded by her neighbours, who belong to an influential family. "They forcibly took me to their house and thrashed me. Then they tore my clothes and forced me to go round the village," the victim told reporters. The neighbours were angry as the victim's brother-in-law Gagandeep Singh was having an affair with a girl from the family.

Bitter harvest of a poisonous campaign

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Dr Mohd. Manzoor Alam, The last few weeks have witnessed a steady rise in different kinds of violence, rape and murder of women (Dalit, Muslim, OBC), attack on and murder of Muslim youth and others suspected to be Muslims, sundry violence in Bihar, UP and Maharashtra.

‘One million post cards campaign’ launched to press for inclusion of Dalit Christians &...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,

A Portrait of the Indian as a Young Dalit Girl: Part 4 – The...

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(Editor’s note: This was first published on Yahoo.com as a single piece. We are reproducing the long form report in parts for TwoCircles.net readers.) You...

Toilet tales: Why Divya Bharathi’s Kakkoos is a must-watch documentary

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By Sibi Arasu for TwoCircles.net Strap: Kakkoos (Latrine) is a Tamil documentary that is a powerful indictment of society’s apathy towards the thousands who are...

Dalit groom seeks police protection to ride mare

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By IANS,

अब बलिया में दलितों पर हमला, 6 बुरी तरह घायल, 3 की हालत गंभीर

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TwoCircles.net News Desk बलिया : बलिया से सटे ग़ाज़ीपुर के सीमावर्ती गांव गोसलपुर में भाजपा व संघ परिवार से जुड़े ठाकुर ज़ाति के लोगों ने...

‘Muslims have become New Subalterns’

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Interview with JNU Prof. Ajay Gudavarthy by Mishab Irikkur and Abhay Kumar. New Delhi: Ajay Gudavarthy is an assistant professor at Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Apart from his deep interest in theory, particularly critical school, post-Marxism and postcolonial studies, he also keeps an eye on political processes and dynamism of Indian politics. As the fire of communal violence is fast engulfing many parts of the country and the ruling BJP, as alleged by the opposition parties, remains involved in polarising society for electoral gains, Mishab Irikkur and Abhay Kumar spent Sunday’s morning with Ajay Gudavarthy at his house in South Delhi, conversing with him about the current volatile situation.

Indian Muslim Organizations memorandum on Gaza

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Presented to the Hon'ble Prime Minister and Hon'ble Minister of External Affairs, India
Respected Sir,

The Indian civil society, in general and Indian Muslims in particular, are horrified by the unfolding events in the open air prison called "Gaza", housing 1.5 million people, which the Israeli occupying power has condemned to slow death by imposing a complete siege since 20th January 2008. This was the culmination of the policy of throttling Gaza into death unleashed by the occupying power since June 2007.

Partial shutdown in Bihar over acquittals in Dalit massacre

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Patna : Road and rail traffic in Bihar was partly hit Friday during a shutdown called by the CPI-ML to protest against the acquittal...

नैतिकता का पाठ पढ़ाकर, रोहित के दोषियों को बचाने की फ़िराक़ में मोदी

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TwoCircles.net News Desk लखनऊ : बाबा साहब भीमराव अंबेडकर विश्वविद्यालय में रोहित वेमुला की आत्महत्या के लिए मोदी को जिम्मेदार मानते हुए ‘मोदी गो बैक’...

Remembering Guru Ravidassji: One of the greatest thinker and social reformer of India

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By Jaspal Singh Today is the 642nd anniversary of the birth of Guru Ravidass also known as Raidas. He is one of the greatest thinkers...

दलित-मुसलमानों की ‘बक्खो’ जाति बदतर जिंदगी गुजारने को मजबूर

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फ़हमीना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net वो कहते हैं न कि अपना घर सभी को अज़ीज़ होता है चाहे वो महल हो या झोपडी हर शख्स सुकून से...

Man kills self, family in Bihar

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By IANS, Patna : Driven by poverty, a man set his wife and three children on fire before killing himself in Bihar's Aurangabad district early Monday, police said.

Will try to restore Ambedkar Bhavan in Mumbai: Government

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New Delhi : Facing criticism from the opposition over the demolition of decades-old Ambedkar Bhavan in Mumbai, the government assured the Rajya Sabha on...

‘MIM will contest Delhi and UP polls too’, says Owaisi in Aurangabad

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: Buoyed with the Maharashtra assembly election win, the Majlis E Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) has declared to contest forthcoming Delhi and Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. AIMIM party chief and MP Asaduddin Owaisi, who was in Aurangabad to attend a ‘Thanks Giving’ gathering, made the announced that MIM is eyeing assembly polls due in the national capital and Uttar Pradesh.

OBC quota in panchayats, civic agencies valid: Apex court

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday upheld the validity of the constitutional provision for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) reservation in panchayats and municipal agencies, including the post of a chairperson. The chairperson's post could not be equated with solitary posts in the context of public employment, the court said. However, the court said: "The upper ceiling of 50 percent vertical reservations in favour of Scheduled Castes (SCs), the Scheduled Tribes (STs) and OBCs should not be breached in the context of local self-government."

RSS-ABVP disrupts BAMCEF’s Haryana convention

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Yogesh Maitreya, for TwoCircles.net Mumbai: A group of RSS and ABVP cadres disrupted the Haryana State Convetion of The All India Backward (SC, ST, OBC)...

Indian Muslims! Wake up and unite or you will be eaten up by wolves

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, There is a famous story that many might have already heard. It is an excellent parable for the Indian Muslims...

JD-U leader Uday Narain Choudhary quits party over ‘anti-Dalit’ policies

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Patna (IANS): Senior ruling JD-U leader Uday Narain Choudhary, a former Speaker of the Bihar Assembly, on Wednesday said he was quitting the ruling Janata Dal-United...

Probe launched into Dalit youth’s killing in Haryana

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By IANS, Chandigarh : Haryana Police are investigating the killing of a Dalit youth in a village of Bhiwani district, police officials said Thursday.

Spat with minister: Haryana transfers woman police officer

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Chandigarh : The Haryana government transferred IPS officer Sangeeta Kalia on Saturday, a day after she refused to leave a meeting when Health and...

यूपी के हरदोई में दलितों पर बढ़ते उत्पीड़न पर लगातार उठ रहे हैं सवाल...

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लखनऊ- आस मुहम्मद कैफ , TwoCircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश की राजधानी लखनऊ से 80 किमी की दूरी पर स्थित हरदोई जिले में पिछले एक सप्ताह में दलितों...

Varun Gandhi for abolishing death penalty, BJP says personal view

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New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party MP Varun Gandhi on Saturday came out against the death penalty, noting most of the death row convicts are...

Haryana violence: Apex court orders Dalits’ protection

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Supreme Court Wednesday said courts cannot solve problems linked to social prejudices and conflicts, and directed Haryana to provide protection to the victims of caste violence in Mirchpur village in Hisar district. The apex court's vacation bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice C.K. Prasad said the failure to provide protection would be viewed seriously.

#BreakingCaste: Sujatha Gidla shines reading from Ants Among Elephants

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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...

Harvard India Conference sees protests against Rohith Vemula’s suicide

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By TCN News, Cambridge (USA): The 13th annual edition of the Harvard India conference saw protests against the death of Rohith Vemula, a Dalit research...

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

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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...

Casteism among Hindus and Sikhs in the UK as Rampant as In India

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By TCN News London: Casteism exists and flourishes not only in India but even in the Diaspora based in UK, where discrimination among Hindus and...

Three Dalit parties support Congress-NCP in Maharashtra

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Mumbai : In a big boost to the Congress and the NCP, three Dalit parties Wednesday joined the ruling alliance in Maharashtra. The Peoples' Republican...

एक बार फिर भीम आर्मी चीफ चन्द्रशेखर गिरफ्तार

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ-Twocircles.net देवबंद- भीम आर्मी चीफ चन्द्रशेखर आज़ाद को एक बार फिर गिरफ्तार किया गया है.उनके गिरफ्तारी देवबंद में की गई. गिरफ्तारी के तुरंत बाद चन्द्रशेखर की...

Chidambaram says ‘minimal’ Maoists in Arunachal

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By IANS, Itanagar: Home Minister P. Chidambaram Saturday said there was a minimal presence of Maoists in Arunachal Pradesh.

ज़मानत के तुरंत बाद चन्द्रशेखर ‘रावण’ पर लगा रासुका

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter सहारनपुर : गुरुवार को भीम आर्मी के सुप्रीमो चन्द्रशेखर आज़ाद ‘रावण’ को इलाहाबाद हाईकोर्ट ने ज़मानत दी थी, इधर आज उन पर...

Anti-beef ban march in Mumbai on Tuesday

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Mumbai: Thousands of people, including butchers, students and political leaders, will walk together in a march here on Tuesday to protest the ban on...

Untouchability cuts across regions and religions in India

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net, Waltham, Massachusetts: Two-day symposium on the Annihilation of Caste: The Unfinished Legacy of Dr B.R. Ambedkar concluded here on Sunday. The symposium was organized by the Center for Global Development and Sustainability in Brandeis University. Symposium saw participation by a number of Indian and American academicians and Dalit activists and sympathizers with Dalit cause.

Complaint filed against caste panchayat in Rajasthan

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Jaipur : A complaint was registered Tuesday against some members of a caste panchayat in Rajasthan's Rajsamand district after they allegedly ostracized members of...

Sabarimala: All women face backlash, but the worst is being reserved for Dalit women

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By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net Several women tried to enter the Sabarimala temple in southern Kerala following the Supreme Court order allowing entry for all women...

Book review: Kanshiram: Leader of the Dalits

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By Chandra Sen for Twocircles.net Author: By Badri Narayan Publisher: Penguin, Delhi Price: Rs 374 at Amazon.in ‘The caste has come into politics’, ‘the standard...

Modi has time to talk about Balochistan, but not for Dalits: Congress

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New Delhi : Gujarat Congress leaders on Sunday submitted a memorandum to President Pranab Mukherjee highlighting "atrocities" against Dalits in the state, and criticised...

Dalit youth beaten, urinated upon in Bihar, says FIR

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Patna : Two Dalit youths were badly beaten and urinated upon by some men allegedly for stealing a motorcycle in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar,...

Dalit girl raped in Odisha, four held

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar : Four men were arrested in Odisha's Jajpur district for the rape of a 15-year-old Dalit girl two days ago, police said Friday.

Mazdoor Kitchen: A melange of love, salt and labour

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

Malkangiri: Who is responsible for deaths of more than 120 Adivasi children?

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By Akash Poyam for Adivasi Resurgence Up until now, Japanese Encephelitis (JE) has caused more than 120 deaths (Official numbers, real deaths could be...

Marathi book on Tipu Sultan shines light on his contributions to India

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By Imran Inamdar, TwoCircles.net Solpaur (Maharashtra): In an attempt to bring out the role and contributions of the great Mysore king Tipu Sultan, Sarfaraz...

Racial and caste oppression have many similarities

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By Rajesh Sampath, Comparisons can be risky, but not impossible. Consider for a moment India’s Dalits, or “untouchables,” and African Americans. Racial inequality in America has its...

Government is not anti-Dalit, anti-Muslim: Minister

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New Delhi, (IANS): Minister of State for Home Affairs Hansraj Ahir on Thursday said that incidents of lynching were not "general" and asked the states...

Demonstration in support of Dalits of Hissar

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Four shot dead in Bihar for refusing to share fish

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Patna : Four people were shot dead in Bihar allegedly by a group of people belonging to upper caste for refusing to share the...

Revisiting Babasaheb on India at 70: For Dalits, there has never been much to...

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net All photos by Daisy Katta August 15 has come and gone; delved into, reflected upon, and discussed at length. Yet, the familiar...

10000 KM yatra to liberate 1.2 million people from the caste ridden practice of...

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By TCN Staff Reporter,

Dalit killing case shifted out of Haryana

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By IANS, New Delhi: In a blow to the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government, the Supreme Court Wednesday transferred the trial of those accused of attacking Dalits in Haryana to New Delhi.

‘हमारे 3 विधायक 240 पर भारी पड़ेंगे’

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net बिहार में लालू-नीतिश के जीत की शोर में एक बेहद ही दिलचस्प घटनाक्रम दब कर रह गया. यह घटना भाकपा माले...

‘Quashing reservation in promotions goes against SCs, STs’

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By IANS

बनारस में कौमी एकता का महासम्मलेन, गूढ़ प्रश्नों पर खामोश रहे वक्ता

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सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net वाराणसी: कल बनारस में कौमी-एकता को लेकर एक बड़ा कार्यक्रम आयोजित किया गया, जिसमें नगर और देश के बड़े मौलवियों, धर्मगुरुओं और महंतों ने शिरकत की. इस ‘कौमी यकजहती सर्वधर्म एकता महासम्मेलन’ का आयोजन बनारस स्थित अस्थायी हज हाउस में किया गया था.

Police file charge sheet in Kerala woman’s rape-murder case

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Kochi : The Kerala Police on Saturday filed a charge sheet in a local court in the brutal rape-murder of a 27-year-old Dalit law...

On Rohith Vemula’s first anniversary, Jamia students pay respect, organise protests

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: Commemorating the first anniversary of research scholar Rohith Vemula’s suicide, students of Jamia Millia Islamia on Wednesday under...

Thousands of tribals protest government neglect

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By IANS, Raipur: Thousands of tribals from the interior areas of Chhattisgarh Saturday held a rally in this state capital to protest their "neglect" by the central and state governments. Tribal men and women marched through the main streets of the capital to the rally at the sports complex ground, where over a dozen tribal leaders cutting across party lines and including three ministers of the state's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as also several Congress leaders, addressed them.

‘Doors of opportunities are closed for Dalits and tribals because of caste prejudices’

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net Vaibhav Chhaya is a poet, writer, social media analyst and political commentator. He has published a book of poetry. His political...

Paswan faces stiff competition, but ‘BJP votes’ may help him clinch victory narrowly

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By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, Hajipur: As Hajipur voted on May 7, local poster of boy in Indian politics, Lok Jan Shakti Party leader Ram Vilas Paswan appeared to be facing stiff competition, but he may clinch the victory, even though he may not be able to register his name in the Guinness book, this time around.

Arrests of Human rights activists and intellectuals across India strongly condemned

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By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Prominent activists’ and public intellectuals’ houses were raided and the activists and intellectuals who were critical of the government were arrested...

Why atrocities on Dalits, minorities, farmers: Mevani asks Modi

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New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) Gujarat Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani on Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking why atrocities were being committed against...

Maharashtra CM faces serious threats to life: Prakash Ambedkar

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Mumbai, Jan 10 (IANS) Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis faces serious threats to his life from certain pro-Hindutva elements, Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh President Prakash...

Modi phenomenon causing sea change in Dalit perception of BJP: Ram Vilas Paswan

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By Nirendra Dev New Delhi : There is a "sea change" in the perception by Dalits, backward class and scheduled tribes in the last two...

WPI welcomes Apex Court guidelines on police encounters

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Welfare Party of India, in a statement, appreciated and hailed the apex court guidelines on deaths in police encounter for mandatory registration of FIRs and investigation by CID or any other independent agency.

सुल्तानपुर में दलित को पीटा, बुलन्दशहर में रेप

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश में दलितों के उत्पीड़न के मामले में बढ़ोत्तरी हो रही है। ताज़ा मामला सुल्तानपुर का हैं जहां एक दलित व्यक्ति...

More than 50% Dalits landless, 40% of people displaced for ‘development’ are Adivasis, says...

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: Even as the NDA government completes three years in power amid tall claims of development, the India Exclusion...

Can marginalised students in India dream of higher education in foreign universities?

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Students from marginalized communities in India face multiple hurdles in accessing education abroad. Aatika S | TwoCircles.net NEW DELHI — Tejas Harad, founder-editor of The Satyashodhak, an...

Fresh autopsy on Dalit youth’s body in Telangana

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Hyderabad, (IANS): A fresh autopsy was conducted on Monday on the body of a Dalit youth who died under suspicious circumstances in Peddapally district...

Eight bodies go missing in Bihar graveyard

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By IANS, Patna: Eight bodies have disappeared from a graveyard in a Bihar village in one night, scaring local residents. People of Belauri village in Purnia district, about 350 km from here, were stunned Friday when they found that eight bodies had disappeared from the Sauraghat Samsan graveyard overnight. "We found that eight graves were dug up and the bodies missing," villager Ramavatar Sada said. Sada said the graveyard was used by Dalits and other very poor people to bury their dead as they could afford costly cremations.

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

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

बिहार राज्य महादलित आयोग के चेयरमैन का बयान, मोदी हैं रंगा सियार

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net पटना: अख़बारों में छपे विज्ञापन भले ही ‘मेरा देश बदल रहा है... आगे बढ़ रहा है’ के नारे लगा रहे हों,...

Cancelling Andhra court bail to Kobad Ghandy meaningless: SC

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By IANS,

BJP showing fake love for Dalits, says BSP chief

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Lucknow : Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Tuesday accused the BJP of showing "fake love" for the Dalits. The BJP hit back,...

Twenty-year battle of the people of Noamundi against Tata Steel still continues

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By Xavier Das Friends/comrades,

Mob lynching: All India Momin Conference writes to Modi, questions ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter All India Momin Conference, an organisation of Muslim weavers and artisans, have written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to...

Soren rules out change in tribal land right acts

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By IANS, Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren Monday said that no changes would be made in legislations governing the tribal land rights. "There is no move to make any amendments in the existing two acts formulated to protect the land right of the tribals," Soren said while replying to a query by a Congress legislator in the state assembly. Last week Soren reportedly said that amendments would be made in the Chhota Nagpur Tenancy (CNT) Act.

Congress terms RSS top brass’ comment on reservation anti-Dalit

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New Delhi (IANS) : Condemning head of RSS' communications department Manmohan Vaidya's call to abolish reservation, the Congress party on Friday said that BJP and...

Death of a Delta: Part 2

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By A Mirsab and Afroz Alam for TwoCircles.net, TwoCircles.net visited Nokha to investigate the story of Delta Meghwal. Within a couple of hours we...

सवर्णवादी व्यवस्था से पीड़ित पत्रकार मीना कोतवाल ने अब ‘सो कॉल्ड लिबरल-प्रोग्रेसिव सवर्ण पत्रकारों’...

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मीना कोतवाल,Twocircles.net के लिए सो कॉल्ड लिबरल-प्रोग्रेसिव सवर्ण पत्रकारों, प्रशांत कन्नौजिया को जेल गए हुए 50 दिन हो गए हैं. एक ट्वीट की वजह से प्रशांत...

Atrocities on Dalits following pattern during NDA rule: Congress

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New Delhi : The Congress on Thursday said atrocities against the Dalits across India during the National Democratic Alliance government's rule since May 2014...

Ambedkar statue vandalised in Uttarakhand

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Haridwar, (IANS): A statue of Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar was on Friday found vandalised by miscreants in a village in Haridwar district of Uttarakhand, sparking...

निकाय चुनाव : बसपा की वापसी में ‘आवाज़’ है…

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर/मेरठ/अलीगढ़ : पहली बार मेयर चुनाव से रूबरू हो रहे सहरानपुर में बसपा प्रत्याशी हाजी फ़ज़लूर रहमान बेहद नज़दीकी मुक़ाबले में...

‘Give My Son Justice’: Father of Dalit Boy Beaten to Death Over a ‘Spelling...

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Aliza Noor | TwoCircles.net Raju Kumar Dohre, a thirty-six years-old dalit man from Uttar Pradesh, found himself at a loss for words to talk about...

बाढ़ : सुशासित बिहार में 250 दलित सड़क पर रहने को मजबूर

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फहमीना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net बेलसर : बिहार सरकार द्वारा विकास के दावों के बीच आज वहां गया जिले में बेलसर गाँव के दलित टोले में रहने...

Punia files papers as Congress candidate for RS polls

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Lucknow : Congress leader and chairman of the Scheduled Castes Commission P.L. Punia Friday filed his nomination papers for the Nov 20 Rajya Sabha...

“Caste is enforced through Dalit women’s bodies”

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By TCN News, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Dalits are at the bottom of caste hierarchy in India and the caste system is enforced through Dalit women’s bodies in the form of violence and abuse, said activists Asha Kotwal and Thenmozhi Soundarajan, who were in town to give details about a month-long “Dalit Mahila Swabhiman Yatra” in India.

Students, teachers associations seek removal of Hyderabad varsity VC

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New Delhi : Students' and teachers' associations here on Monday sought immediate removal and arrest of University of Hyderabad (UoH) Vice Chancellor P. Appa...

नीतिश सरकार अपने निज़ाम को कलंकित होने से बचाएं –भाकपा

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TwoCircles News Desk पटना : ख़बर है कि विगत 28 जनवरी, 2016 को खगडि़या ज़िले के राहुलनगर दमहा गांव में बसे महादलित परिवारों के घरों...

Lakshmipet killing: Dalit Mahasabha demand sacking of Pradesh Congress chief

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सचिन वालिया की मौत के बाद बदल गई है भीम आर्मी की कहानी

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : सचिन वालिया की मौत के बाद के भीम आर्मी गहरे बदलाव की और है इसके लिए भीम आर्मी के...

Chandasi Coal Mandi: Asia’s Largest Black Hell Where Laborers Pay with Their Health

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Pavan Kumar Maurya, TwoCircles.net Mughalsarai, Chandauli: The Chandasi Coal Mandi, located just five kilometers from Varanasi in Chandauli district, Uttar Pradesh, is gripped by severe cold since...

Activists protest deaths at home for mentally

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By IANS, New Delhi: Nearly 150 people, mostly rights activists and members of NGOs, Tuesday protested the government's apathy towards the maintenance of a home for the mentally challenged, where several deaths and human rights violations were reported in the past month. They demanded action and even offered their help to the government.

SDPI vehemently condemns burning alive of Dalit Kids

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By TCN News Bhopal: The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) has vehemently condemned the burning...

Judiciary should not be a “Holy Cow”

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By Ravichandran Chakkiliyan, TwoCircles.net, On May 12TH, 2014 Dalit Stree Shakti, an organization based in Hyderabad fighting against violence on dalit women organized a seminar on "Judiciary and its Functioning" in the memory of Lakshmipeta dalits, a place in Srikakulam where 7 dalits were beaten to death by Thoorupu Kapu (men/women) (Backward Caste) in 2012. The Meeting was organized in Ravindra Bharati, Lakdikapool, Hyderabad.

Next President should be a Dalit: Manjhi

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Patna, (IANS): Former Bihar Chief Minister and an ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Jitan Ram Manjhi on Wednesday demanded that the next...

Dear Prime Minister, are you sure the rich are not sleeping well post...

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By Soroor Ahmed for Twocirlces.net As a son of a poor ‘chai-wallah’, Narendra Modi knows well how comfortably––‘aaram se’, to use his own expression––the...

Negligence in Chandrayangutta,Over flowing of sewarage water beside MLA Car

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After Uddhav expose, Athawale’s RPI-A heads for split

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Mumbai : Hours after Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray's sensational revelation regarding Dalit leader Ramdas Athawale, the latter's Republican Party of India-A virtually split...

Bihar liquor ban: Boon or bane debate back into focus

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Even as some political bigwigs are demanding ease or an end to liquor ban, women in the state are firmly standing with chief...

Sonia raises ‘distressing rise’ in attacks on Dalits with Modi

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New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday raised the issue of "distressing rise in incidence of atrocities against Dalits" with Prime Minster Narendra...

Rectify 1.4 crore errors in caste particulars, states told

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New Delhi: Amid demands by some opposition parties for releasing the data of the caste census, the government on Tuesday said there were over...

From scavenging to doctoral dreams: An inspiring journey of Sunil Yadav

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“Even if 100 people from my community of scavengers exit from this inhumane occupation and move towards a dignified life, I will feel my...

India’s IT capital caught in silly controversies

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(LETTER FROM BANGALORE) By V.S. Karnic, Bangalore, May 17 (IANS) A new visitor to India's IT capital would be bemused as well as flummoxed - is this the same city that has become an international metaphor for outsourcing of jobs, particularly in its booming software industry? The most talked about issues in the last two weeks have been the city civic authority's inability to find space for the hundreds of tonnes of garbage generated daily and whether women should be allowed to work in the night, particularly in its scores of call centres.

बिहार चुनाव: दलित समीकरण नहीं आसान

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net पटना: दो रोज़ पहले उत्तर प्रदेश के हमीरपुर में मंदिर में प्रवेश करने पर एक दलित दम्पत्ति की जलाकर हत्या कर...

Modi blames Congress for farmers’ poor condition

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Sasaram/Gaya (Bihar) : BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi at the election rallies in Bihar Thursday hit out at the Congress for neglecting farmers,...

Government sets up fund for Dalit entrepreneurs

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By IANS, New Delhi : With the Lok Sabha polls only months away, the government Monday announced a Rs.200 crore venture capital fund to promote...

Amartya Sen supports anti-rape protests, notes Dalits’ plight

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By IANS,

Dalit student awarded Rohith Vemula Memorial Scholarship by Lucknow NGO

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By TCN News Lucknow: Chandan Kumar Ram, a Dalit student whose parents work as labourers, was awarded the first Rohith Vemula Memorial Scholarship by...

Opposition parties condemn Bhagwat’s call on debate on reservations for SC/ST

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TCN News Political leaders of congress, activists, Dalit leaders including Bhim army leader, Welfare party of India have all condemned the call made by Mohan...

Amid pandemic, rains, residents of Ramesh Park rendered homeless

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Residents of Ramesh Park have been rendered homeless after a demolition drive by Delhi Development Authority (DDA). Most of the residents, who are either Muslim...

Mayawati says Dalit’s daughter targeted, BJP hits back

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Lucknow/New Delhi : A day after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) sniffed out more than Rs 104 crore deposited in her party's account after demonetisation,...

Dalit killed for plucking two brinjals in Bihar village

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By IANS, Patna: A Dalit man was beaten to death for plucking two brinjals from a field belonging to a landowner of a higher caste in a village in Bihar, police said Wednesday.

Congress supports NCSC on Dalit education issue

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New Delhi : The Congress on Friday welcomed the National Commission of Scheduled Castes' (NCSC) observation that amendments to the panchayat acts which mandated...

Dalit group angry over Saif’s role in ‘Aarakshan’

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By IANS,

DHRM for a new Dalit movement in Kerala

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent Thiruvananthapuram: The Dalit Human Rights Movement (DHRM) has decided to form a new Dalit movement by the time of the coming Assembly elections, reports say. The DHRM will also reportedly vote against the CPI (M) in the coming panchayat elections.

Himachal court says no to Ramdev holding yoga camps

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Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh High Court Monday rejected a plea of yoga guru Baba Ramdev's Swabhiman Trust to permit it to hold "yog shivirs"...

Mayawati reserves 50 percent of party posts for youth

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Lucknow : Inspired by the results that young leaders are coming up with in other political parties, BSP chief Mayawati announced that from now...

Mayawati in Gujarat to meet Dalit atrocity victims

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Ahmedabad : BSP supremo Mayawati arrived in Gujarat on Thursday to express her solidarity with the Dalit victims of the July 11 atrocities...

Congress, JD-U, Left to bring privilege motions against Irani

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New Delhi : Seeking to put the Narendra Modi government on the defensive, the Congress and JD-U said on Saturday that they will bring...

Dalit intellectual Teltumbde arrested in Mumbai

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Mumbai, Feb 2 (IANS) The Pune police arrested prominent Dalit intellectual and academic Professor Anand Teltumbde from the Mumbai airport early on Saturday, official...

डेल्टा को न्याय न मिलने पर खुद को ख़त्म कर लूंगा – महेन्द्रराम मेघवाल

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter दिल्ली:दो दिन पूर्व त्रिमोही, बाड़मेर के गडरा रोड में अम्बेडकरवादी विचारक और वरिष्ठ पत्रकार दिलीप मंडल ने इतिहासकार ताराराम गौतम के साथ...

Another exercise in deception

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Ref: - International Kashmir conference held at Uruguay.

Dear Sir

The first ever Kashmir Conference in Latin America was held on July 31, 2007 in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay where eight point hollow resolution was unanimously adopted except one relevant point that isÂ 'right to self determination by people of J&K'.

Attack on human rights defenders Soni Sori

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By TCN News, Geedam (Chattisgarh): Reports are emerging that Soni Sori, the adivasi leader from Bastar, was attacked by few unidentified men in Geedam, Chattisgarh....

“Dalits are not definitely a block, and there is an intellectual blossom,” Kancha Ilaiah

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By Ajmal Khan and Anish for TwoCircles.net, Professor Kancha Ilaiah had well predicted that Narendra Modi would become the next Prime Minister under BJP, and he has also been instrumental in raising criticism on how Indian Left failed to understand the caste question. After the parliament elections, he described how the caste equations has been used in the country by the BJP. As soon as the BJP came into power, many decisions have already been taken by the ruling government, which will have far reaching consequences on the lives of dalits, adivasis, Muslims and Bahujans. In this context, Ajmal Khan and Anish engaged in conversation with Kancha Ilaiah, writer, a dalit rights activist and former Professor and head of the Political Science department at the Osmania University, Hyderabad, on contemporary politics in India, particularly on Muslim, Dalit and Bahujan politics. He argues, that Muslims will have to form their own national party or a national coalition of all the Muslim parties by retaining their political and social identity.

Kedarnath to Kanhaiya: Sedition law a tool to muffle the voice of dissent

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By Azim Hussain Mazumder, The arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar on sedition charges following the so called ‘Anti-national’ incident at Jawaharlal Nehru University sparked the debate...

‘SC/ST left out of pro-corporate budget,’ rights group alleges

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Dalit and tribal groups do not seem very happy with the union budget, which they claimed is pro-rich. “Pursuing unabashedly and openly a pro-rich policy, the Modi Budget outlines a corporate vision of India that unashamedly eats into the budgetary allocations meant for the millions of its poorest and neediest citizens, the Dalits and Adivasis,” said the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) - Dalit Arthik Adhikar Andolan (DAAA), which works towards the elimination of caste-based discrimination.