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Our Muslim brothers fast in Ramadan; we have been fasting for 5 years waiting...

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: “For our Muslim brothers, Ramadan comes once a year, but we have been fasting continuously for the past...

मायावती, महाराष्ट्र और गुजरात : दलित समय में मोदी की जवाबदेही

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सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net कल उत्तर प्रदेश भाजपा के उपाध्यक्ष दयाशंकर सिंह के बयान के बाद उत्तर प्रदेश का राजनीतिक माहौल बेहद गर्म हो गया है....

Voting rises in UP’s reserved Lok Sabha seats

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By Puja Awasthi, Lucknow : There is a marked rise in the number of people voting in the Lok Sabha constituencies reserved for Dalits in...

PCLM: Knocking the doors of UN against Vatican

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Dalit Christians constitute 70% of the total Christian population in India but they have no share in the Church-run institutions. Indian church (should) stop...

Two Years of Modi Sarkar- Broken Promises: Sectarian Agenda

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By Ram Puniyani, The performance of the Modi Government during last two years has to be seen in the light of the promises made in...

Dalits protest across Maharashtra over Pune riots, state braces for Wednesday shutdown

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Mumbai, Jan 2 (IANS) Angry Dalits staged rail, road blockades and took out processions in Mumbai and agitations in different parts of Maharashtra on...

Clash after Dalits stopped from praying at Haryana shrine

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By IANS,

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...

NHRC issues notice to Haryana over assault of Dalit boy

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By IANS,

Dalit groups to make SC status poll issue in state elections

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By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net,

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

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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”...

सवर्ण छात्रों को दलित भोजन माता से हुई नाराजग़ी, नौकरी खत्म !

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जिब्रानउद्दीन।Twocircles.net देवों की भूमि कही जाने वाले उत्तराखंड में एक दलित समाज से आने वाली एक भोजन माता को सिर्फ इसलिए हटा दिया...

Parents protest ‘lower caste’ women cooking food in schools

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By Adnan Alavi, The outrage among parents over Dalit or Lower Caste [sic] women cooking food for their children in schools has once again demonstrated the casteist face of our society. 'Upper caste' families are insistent that they would not send the kids to school if the children are served food cooked by Dalit women. In several places, villagers have turned violent and the cooks had to be sent away.

Dalit scholar’s suicide an indictment of BJP’s Hindutva agenda, say Indian Americans

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By TCN News Washington: The Indian American Muslim Council, an advocacy group aimed at safeguarding India's pluralist and tolerant ethos, expressed shock...

BSP won’t support Modi in government formation: Mayawati

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Lucknow: BSP chief Mayawati declared Friday that under no circumstances will her party support a possible BJP government after the Lok Sabha election. Addressing a...

VIPs visit murdered Dalit woman’s mother, probe continues

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Perumbavoor (Kerala) : A stream of high-profile people are visiting a hospital here in Ernakulam district to meet the mother of a poor Dalit...

Dalits allege denial of water by upper castes

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By IANS, Ranchi : Dalits of a Jharkhand village allege that they have been denied water from handpumps and entry into a community hall by upper castes in Chatra district.

Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar files nomination papers

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Patna : Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Wednesday filed her nomination papers for the Lok Sabha polls from Sasaram constituency in Bihar, officials said. "I...

Manjhi quits, claims threat to life

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Patna : Embattled Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi Friday dramatically resigned just ahead of a floor test, the move coming despite the BJP...

Dalit groom seeks police protection to ride mare

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By IANS,

मीडिया और हिंदुत्व की नई प्रयोगशाला ‘भीमा कोरेगांव’

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कलीम अज़ीम, TwoCircles.net के लिए भीमा-कोरेगांव में हुई हिंसा का मामला थमता नज़र नहीं आ रहा है. प्रमुख आरोपियों को गिरफ़्तार करने की मांग करते...

Vaibhav Chhaya: A maverick voice of dissent into the poetic world

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By Yogesh Maitreya, “With all my baggage gone I can travel light now, forging on deeper into forest” says Haruki Murakami in his Kafka on the Shore. The same feeling can be drawn as soon as one finishesreading ‘Delete Kelela Sarr Aakash’ (Entire deleted sky), the first poetry book by Vaibhav Chhaya. Vaibhav writes poetry in Marathi. And the forest of his poem is equally risky and beautiful, one who could see the life in the underbelly, would certainly remain unsettled after brooding into the forest of his poems.

Dalit student stabbed near Gandhinagar, recovering in hospital

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Gandhinagar, (IANS): A Dalit student was brutally stabbed here on Tuesday evening, allegedly by two upper caste boys for signing a police complaint as a...

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

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By TCN Staff Reporter,

Dalit leader accepts Islam, pens a book

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By The Milli Gazette, New Delhi: After 52 years of struggle, a well known dalit leader in Tamil Nadu, T. M. Mani, accepted Islam. The English version of his book "End of Casteism" will be released in New Delhi on Sunday, 18 April 2010. Mr. T.M. Mani waged a long war against casteism and caste atrocities. He fought ferociously for 52 years and at the end, accepted Islam. His struggle's sufferings and achievements are detailed in this book. Venue of the book release will be Ghalib Academy, Hazrat Nizamuddin, New Delhi and time: 10.30 am-2 pm

Ambedkar’s statue again desecrated in Andhra

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By IANS,

Life term for student leader’s killer who shot witness’ father

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By IANS, New Delhi: A Delhi court Saturday sentenced a man, already convicted for gunning down a students union leader of a Delhi University college in 1999, to rigorous imprisonment for life for also killing the father of a witness who had informed the police. Jitender alias Kalla was served with a second punishment days after he was awarded life sentence by the court for murdering Anil Bhadana, the then Satyawati College Students Union president.

Banaras weavers to showcase their products at Dilli Haat

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By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

नीतिश राज में मुसहरों को बिल्डरों का खौफ़

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net पटना:बिहार की राजधानी में मुसहर जाति के लोग इन दिनों भारी संकट में हैं. मुसहरों की जमीन पर एक बिल्डर की...

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...

India’s religious minorities and Dalits weep alone

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By John Dayal, India’s several religious minorities weep alone when they are in pain. So to do the Dalits and the Indigenous people, called...

Journalist says threatened by Sanatan Sanstha, refuses police cover

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Mumbai: Journalist Nikhil Wagle, known for his aggressive stance on various public issues, says he has received threats from Hindu group Sanatan Sanstha. Maharashtra...

When the Right is wrong: Indian-Americans call out Hindu nationalists in the US in...

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By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter San Francisco: In December of last year, support for Hindu nationalism from a largely ”upper”- caste Indian diaspora in the United...

Four upper caste people awarded life imprisonment for burning down a Dalit’s house

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Four upper caste people were awarded life imprisonment on May 2, 2017, by the sessions court in Beed, Maharashtra, for attacking...

दलित-मुस्लिम महिलाओं के हक के लिए लड़ती कनीज़ फातिमा

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फहमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net आजमगढ़(उत्तर प्रदेश): हमारे समाज में आज भी जब औरतें आजीविका के लिए घर से बाहर कदम रखती हैं तो उन्हें कड़ी चुनौतियों...

Flag march by police in violence-hit Saharanpur villages

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Lucknow, (IANS): Police conducted a flag march in the Shabbirpur, Badgaon, Chandrapura and Maheshpur villages of violence-hit Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh on Friday,...

‘I want to break the hands of the people who attacked our brothers in...

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net (The following is a first-person account of a youth from Amreli district) Amerli, Gujarat: My name is Sagar Bagada. I am...

Gorakhpur: SP alliance to pose a tough challenge to BJP thanks to NISHAD party’s...

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net A few kilometres east of Gorakhpur railway station, there is a lake named Ramgarh Tal. Walking along the banks of the...

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.

Atrocities on Dalits: Panel frowns on low conviction rates

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By IANS,

In UP, the truth is that no Muslim party plays a major role in...

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By Faisal Fareed, Twocircles.net With UP going to elections this weekend, it is clear that the gloves are off and everyone is either trying to...

One person dead, three injured in Murshidabad during voting after TMC, CPI (M) supporters...

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By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net Kolkata/Berhampur: The battle for West Bengal claimed its first victim during the third phase of elections in Domkal, Murshidabad. Tauhidul...

Family of killed Dalit youths in Gujarat demand CBI probe

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Ahmedabad : Family members of three Dalit boys who died in a controversial police firing in 2012, have demanded that the case be...

Tribals demand release of detained villagers in Midnapore

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By IANS, Kolkata: Hundreds of tribal women Sunday staged a protest at a police station in West Bengal's West Midnapore district to demand release of 37 villagers detained during the joint forces' search for an abducted school teacher. The demonstration took place at Goaltore police station in the district. Police said the villagers were detained for interrogation as they tried to obstruct the security personnel during a search operation in the village.

The wall of religion is the tallest for Dalits in Gujarat

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By Manjula Pradeep for Twocircles.net After finishing my Masters in Social Work from M. S. University, Vadodara, I immediately joined Navsarjan Trust, which I...

Tribal boys in Wayanad under POCSO threat

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By Shafeeq Hudawi Kozhikode: Babu, a 21-year-old from the Paniya community, came out of jail in March after spending close to three months in jail....

Muslim women beaten up in MP for allegedly carrying beef; uproar in Rajya Sabha

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: In yet another violence caused due to suspicion of possessing beef, two Muslim women were thrashed and abused by...

Narendra Modi’s victory in Gujarat

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Dear Sir

The reason for Modi's victory (widely covered by Indian and international media) is following and simple as apprehended in my letter (dated October 30, 2007) published in international print media, some paragraphs of which are reproduced below:-

"[This refers to Thursday ''Tehelka' expose on Indian T.V. channels, which was also reproduced next day in prominent print media, exposing State sponsored gory massacre of thousands of innocent Muslims in Gujarat 2002 pogrom.

Violence and ‘clean chits’: Sangma backs BJP on Kandhamal

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By Ram Puniyani

A Portrait of the Indian as a Young Dalit Girl: Part 7 – Being...

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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...

TISS students’ strike enters Day 4, support pours from Universities across India; demands yet...

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By Daisy Katta, TwoCircles.net The strike in Tata Institute Of Social Sciences called by the students of all the four campuses has entered day 4...

Dalits organize mass gathering over Una incident in Gujarat, one poison consuming youth dies

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By TCN News, Ahmedabad: While the Dalit community is protesting strongly against the public beating of four youths in Una of Gujarat, one youth who...

Poultry farming brings prosperity to Rajasthan Dalit village

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By IANS,

Taj city hosts biggest Dalit power show

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By Brij Khandelwal, IANS,

Bihar: Grand Alliance sweeps, opposition targets Modi

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Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish KumarÂ’s Grand Alliance scored a stunning win on Sunday in the assembly elections, dealing a major blow to the...

JNU suicide: ABVP seeks CBI probe, teachers’ suspension

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New Delhi, (IANS): The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Monday demanded a CBI probe into JNU student J. Muthukrishnan's suicide and sought suspension...

Ambedkar King Study Circle of USA observed Ambedkar Jayanti

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By TCN News As social distancing and public gathering restrictions are in order during the COVID19 lockdown, Dr Ambedkar’s 129th birthday commemorations were organized over...

सहारनपुर में फिर गरजी भीम आर्मी, चंद्रशेखर के लिए चलाएगी जेल भरो आंदोलन

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : ‘सरकार के बढ़ते अत्याचार से दलित और अधिक मज़बूत हो रहा है. चन्द्रशेखर भाई दलितों की आवाज़ हैं....

‘प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी से इस्तीफ़ा लिया जाए, मुख्यमंत्री योगी को बरख़ास्त किया जाए’

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter नई दिल्ली : देश में दलित-मुस्लिम-ओबीसी समाज पर बढ़ रहे अत्याचार, ‘भगवा आतंकवाद’ और भीम आर्मी के संस्थापक चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद ‘रावण’ और भीम...

Policemen threatened to rape women students, says fact finding team

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Hyderabad : Policemen, who cracked down on students protesting at University of Hyderabad, threatened to rape the women students, revealed an independent fact finding...

बुलंदशहर मे गैंगरेप पीड़िता दलित युवती की मौत ,गांव में तनाव

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विशेष संवाददाता । Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के बुलंदशहर में एक बार फिर हाथरस जैसी घटना हुई है। यहां की एक दलित युवती की जलकर मौत...

Budget casts gloom on Dalits: Udit Raj

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By TCN News New Delhi: Dr. Udit Raj, National President, Indian Justice Party and All India Confederation of SC/ST Organizations said that this budget has again cast gloom on Dalits. Rs. 4,500 crore have been allocated for the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment which will be utilized not only for the welfare of Dalits but also for the welfare and upliftment of backwards and senior citizens etc.

एक ‘संत मुख्यमंत्री’ जो लाइफ़बॉय साबुन से नहाए दलितों से ही मिलते हैं…

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter कुशीनगर : जब यूपी की कमान योगी आदित्यनाथ ने संभाला था, तो पूरे मीडिया में उनके ‘व्यक्तित्व’ को लेकर खूब गुणगाण किया...

‘अस्तित्व, अस्मिता और जनआन्दोलन’ के मुद्दे पर 2-4 दिसंबर को पटना में जमावड़ा

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TCN News पटना : जन आन्दोलनों का राष्ट्रीय समन्वय यानी एनएपीएम का 11 वां राष्ट्रीय अधिवेशन 2-4 दिसंबर को पटना के ऐतिहासिक अंजुमन इस्लामिया हॉल...

Bihar: Hopes and hurdles for minority communities in much-hyped caste census

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The ongoing caste-based census in Bihar is considered a possible game-changer in policy-making for all the backward castes of the state. Muslims too...

I didn’t recommend beef consumption: BJP MP

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New Delhi : BJP MP Udit Raj on Monday clarified that he did not advocate beef consumption when he quoted Usain Bolt's coach as...

PS Krishnan: An exemplary fighter for Social Justice is no more

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By Arun Khote for TwoCircles.net ‘Standing against the discrimination of oppressed classes, a robust advocate of inter-caste marriages, who practices his knowledge of Sanskrit against...

Sikhs protest over atrocities against minorities, Dalits

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By Arul Louis United Nations, (IANS): A group of Sikhs held a protest against atrocities against minorities and Dalits in India during B.R. Ambedkar's birth...

गांव का हुलेसवा बना डॉ. हुलेश मांझी

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net पटना: डॉ. हुलेश मांझी बिहार के महादलितों के लिए एक ऐसा नाम बन चुके हैं, जो ज़िन्दगी में ऊंचाईयां छूने का...

मिन्डा कम्पनी में सफ़ाई-कर्मियों की मौत का ज़िम्मेदार कौन?

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सुनील कुमार, TwoCircles.net के लिए गुरूग्राम (गुड़गांव) का पोस्टमार्टम हाउस ‘स्वच्छता दिवस’ के एक दिन पूर्व यानी 1 अक्टूबर, 2017 को लगभग शाम तीन बजे...

Death sentences commuted for six in Khairlanji massacre case

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By IANS, Nagpur : The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court Wednesday commuted the death sentences of six people accused in the massacre of a Dalit family in Khairlanji in 2006 and gave them life imprisonment of 25 years each. The much awaited verdict was given by a division bench comprising Justices A.P. Lawande and R.C. Chauhan that turned down a plea by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging the lower court's ruling giving life to two of the eight accused while sentencing to death six people.

‘Summary and Recommendations’ of the Kundu Committee

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By TCN News, New Delhi: The Post-Sachar Evaluation Committee, headed by Prof Amitabh Kundu, presented its final report to Dr Najma Heptullah, the Union Minister for Minority Affairs. The Centre has not yet clarified whether it has accepted the recommendations of the Kundu Committee, as it later came to be known as.

Expelled CPI-M leader holds talks with pro-Dalit outfits

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Kolkata : Expelled CPI-M leader Abdur Rezzak Mollah Sunday said he was hopeful pro-Dalit outfits would join him. Mollah, an undefeated legislator since 1972, was...

Two men arrested for attacking Dalits in Karnataka village

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Raichur (Karnakata) : The Karnataka police have arrested two men so far for barging into the Dalit colony and attacking...

Hyderabad varsity issue not Dalit versus non-Dalit: Irani

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New Delhi: The suicide case of Rohith Vemula, research scholar at University of Hyderabad, was not a "Dalit versus non-Dalit issue", and there was...

Ambedkar, Hedgewar similar, put country before self: Bhagwat

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Panaji : RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said B.R. Ambedkar and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh founder K.B. Hegdewar always put the nation before self...

Modi is anti-Dalit, will defeat BJP in 2019: Rahul

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New Delhi, (IANS): Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government of being anti-Dalit and said his party will...

‘We Don’t Employ Jai Bhim Walas’: Mumbai-based Event Management Firm Owner Tells Dalit Employee,...

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TCN News New Delhi: In a shocking incident of alleged caste discrimination and that too in a metropolitan city like Mumbai, a 23-year-old Dalit boy was...

शर्मनाक : हॉकी की खिलाड़ी वंदना कटारिया को जाति सूचक गाली देने का आरोप

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जिब्रानउद्दीन।Twocircles.net टोक्यो ओलंपिक में भारत का अर्जेंटीना से महिला हॉकी का सेमीफाइनल मुकाबला हारने के पश्चात, भारतीय खिलाड़ी वंदना कटारिया के परिवार को जातिवादी गालियों...

Aurangabad HC acquits all 7 accused in dalit youth lynching case of 2009

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By TwoCircles.net Staff reporter, Aurangabad (Maharashtra): The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court has acquitted seven accused from the charges of stoning to death a dalit youth in 2009. The divisional bench of Justice S S Shinde and Justice P R Bora on Wednesday acquitted three women of all charges, while the four male accused have been convicted under section 341 of IPC ((punishment for wrongful restraint).

Only BSP can nominate a Dalit woman with no money or political legacy for...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter The year started with casteist trolls, it might just end in the Telangana state assembly for Sujatha Surepally. And for this...

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...

English education for the SC/ST/OBCs is my long term commitment: Kancha Ilaiah

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Dalit rights activist and writer Kancha Ilaiah has come upfront countering the allegation against him that he has "a Christian agenda"...

Dilution of minority status of AMU and Jamia is an assault on democratic pluralism...

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By TCN News, New Delhi: The national seminar organized by the Welfare Party of India at Indian Law Institute here has expressed deep resentment and...

‘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...

BJP, minorities, and 2014 elections

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By Asghar Ali Engineer

Collapsing credibility Of Western media: An opportunity for India

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By Saeed Naqvi, Even the skeptics now agree that India shall be a power in the Asian century. To insure this rise to the top, India must maximize all its assets. One asset for which it has a reputation is a lively media, a function of a relatively stable democratic order since independence.

Mirchpur violence: Delhi, Haryana told to protect witnesses

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By IANS,

Why the CAA and NRC are not good solutions to a country bleeding with...

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Dr Anis Ansari, IAS (Rtd) The unprecedented wave of nationwide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the...

मोदी जी! क्या लड़कियां सिर्फ़ अचार बेचने के लिए हैं?

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फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net इन दिनों सोशल मीडिया पर पीएम नरेन्द्र मोदी का एक बयान पर काफी कुछ शेयर किया जा रहा है, जिसमें उन्होंने कहा...

Death of a Doctor: A year later, family still looking for justice

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By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter New Delhi: For the 40-45 people who gathered near Rajghat, the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, it was a day to protest...

Conviction rate in SC, ST cases maximum in MP

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By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,

We are watching you and your sadist medieval-era psyche: Dalit diaspora fumes over continued...

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By Suraj Yengde for Twocircles.net Cambridge: Mid-January in the New England area is infamous for the unfriendly cold shivers. Stepping out on a weekend after...

Ambedkar King Study Circle Hosts Anti-Corruption Activist in California

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By TCN Staff Nov 2, 2019, 2019 Fremont, California. Last week Mr. Jayaram Venkatesan, convenor of Arappor Iyakkam ( non-violent war movement), Tamil Nadu shared...

Database for hate violence launched in Delhi; to help encourage community reporting of such...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter The Documentation of the Oppressed (DOTO)- a national Database on hate violence-was launched today at the Constitution Club in Delhi. The database,...

उना दलित मार्च में आने वालों की सवर्णों द्वारा पिटाई, विरोध प्रदर्शन जारी

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सिद्धांत मोहन और अमित कुमार, TwoCircles.net उना(गुजरात) - उना में आज स्वतंत्रता दिवस के अवसर पर दलित स्वाभिमान यात्रा का आयोजन किया है. इस यात्रा/ मार्च में गुजरात ही नहीं, देश के अलग-अलग हिस्सों से दलित और तमाम संगठनों से जुड़े लोग पहुंच रहे हैं.

NCDHR expresses alarm at NITI Aayog’s claims of not being able to monitor Schedule...

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By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter New Delhi: The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights has expressed disappointment at a recent news item which...

How a ‘footpath pathshala’ in Rajasthan is transforming the lives of children of Dalit...

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Deep Mukherjee, TwoCircles.net Jaipur: Sitting amidst a loose cluster of children, 10-year-old Rajesh (name changed) flashes a grin as he looks at the blackboard and...

Bhopali Kids Drive Home their Demands to PM

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Mayawati names new party chief for UP unit

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Lucknow (IANS): BSP chief Mayawati on Saturday effected a major shake up in the party organization, naming R.S. Kushwaha as the new president of...

Protest demonstrations by dalits and adivasi intensifies over Kanhar dam construction

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By TwoCircles.net, Staff Reporter Sonbhadra (Uttar Pradesh): In a move intended to protest the alleged illegal land acquisition by the Uttar Pradesh government...

भीम आर्मी के समर्थन में आए ओवैसी

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter नई दिल्ली : भीम आर्मी के समर्थन में अब ओवैसी की पार्टी ऑल इंडिया मजलिस-ए-इत्तेहादुल मुस्लिमीन (मजलिस) भी आ गई है. इस...

A Tribute to Raju Kamble from a Father and Daughter

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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...

IAMC urges Modi government to ensure justice to Hathras rape victim

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TCN News President of the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), Ahsan Khan condemned the recent Uttar Pradesh government’s mishandling of the Hathras rape case that...

AAP main focus for BJP’s Delhi candidates

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New Delhi : The seven Lok Sabha candidates of the BJP in Delhi have their eyes set on their opponents from the AAP while...

Now vote for ‘The Greatest Indian’

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By IANS,

Dalit teenager commits suicide after being humiliated by Kerala Police; Congress demands action against...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Kozhikode: The suicide of a Dalit teenager in Kasargod has been turned into a political tussle, with Congress leaders visiting the...

Mayawati: Will her garland turn into noose?

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By Amulya Ganguli, IANS, The apparently bizarre nature of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's politics can be understood by remembering that she is driven by an intense desire to make a mark in politics and, moreover, to do so in a manner which she believes will impress the core group of her supporters, the Dalits. As a newcomer in politics and that too from a depressed community, she has had to build her career from scratch, as it were, without the help of an established party or an influential social network. Hence her unconventional ways.

Hyderabad varsity students stage protest over panel report

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Hyderabad : Students at University of Hyderabad (UoH) on Friday staged a protest against the report of Justice Ashok Kumar Rupanwala Commission, terming it...

BJP desires ‘Hindu Rashtra’, Modi has failed, says Mayawati

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Lucknow : BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday accused the BJP of trying to convert India into a "Hindu Rashtra" and said Prime Minister Narendra...

Searching for the ‘real anti-Indian’

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By Parayi for Twocircles.net Everything is well with the republic. ‘Nationalist’ gundas are beating up students and police is combing the hostels of...

SC moved seeking benefits of backward class quota to ‘most deserving sections’

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New Delhi : Haryana-based Kumhar Maha Sabha on Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking direction to the central government to undertake revision of the...

Bhima Koregaon: Dalits in search of icons from history

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By Ram Puniyani for TwoCircles.net Maharashtra witnessed unprecedented violence against the Dalits who had congregated to pay tributes to the Dalits soldiers (1st January 2018),...

Justice Roopanwal to head panel probing Rohit Vemula suicide

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New Delhi : The HRD ministry on Thursday appointed former Allahabad High Court judge Justice Ashok Kumar Roopanwal to head the one-man judicial commission...

Dalit scholar suicide: Presidency students on token hunger strike

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Kolkata : A section of students of the Presidency University here launched a token hunger strike on Thursday in solidarity with the nationwide protests...

Manjhi meets Modi, fuels speculation of tie-up with BJP

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New Delhi : Former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Thursday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, fuelling speculation of a tie-up between...

नवादा के कझिया गांव में सामंतों ने लगाया महादलितों के घरों में आग, वाम...

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TwoCircles.net News Desk पटना : नवादा ज़िले के अकबरपुर प्रखंड अन्तर्गत कझिया गाँव में वर्षों से बसे लगभग एक सौ महादलितों के घर में सामंती...

JNU to have sombre Diwali with sit-in, prayers for Najeeb

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New Delhi : Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) on Sunday called for a sit-in at the varsity's Administration Block to pray for the...

क्या चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद यूपी के अगले चुनाव में मुख्यमंत्री के दावेदार हों सकते है?

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ , TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर। उत्तर प्रदेश की राजनीति एक बार फिर करवट ले रही है। पीएम मोदी, गृहमंत्री अमित शाह और सूबे के...

Cleaning India, but dying a slow death: How manual scavengers pay with their lives

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Ghaziabad (UP): It is a busy but regular weekday in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. At the tea point in Sector 10,...

Lawless laws leading to exclusion of marginalized: Professor Upendra Baxi

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By Lalita, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Ambedkar University, Delhi organized the 5th Dr B R Ambedkar Memorial Lecture on 5 March in India Islamic Cultural Centre. The lecture was delivered by Professor Upendra Baxi, eminent legal expert and scholar, on “Restoring ‘Title Deeds to Humanity’: Lawless Law, Living Death and the Insurgent Reason of Babasaheb Ambedkar”.

NCERT advisor’s office ransacked over cartoon

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By IANS,

3D stereo caste: A sophisticated way of treating caste discriminations in music

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By Abdul Basith, TwoCircles.net,

मुसलमान बनने की धमकी क्यों देते है दलित

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net मेरठ : पिछले दिनों मेरठ के एक मंदिर में एक नवांगतुक पुजारी ने दलितों को पूजा करने से रोक दिया उन्हें...

“We should record our history, our victory” Dalit poet Mercy Margaret

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Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Dalit literature that revolves around the struggles and lives of Dalits first emerged in the 1960s and has seen exponential growth since....

Left’s terror blame against Muslims, Dalits rejected in Kerala election

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By Anas Nilambur,

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...

Tribals’ nod must for takeover of their land: Rahul Gandhi

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Raipur: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that tribals must be asked for their permission before their land is taken away from...

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

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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...

Dalit student’s suicide ‘murder of democracy’: Kejriwal

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New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday described the suicide of the Hyderabad Dalit student as "murder of democracy, social justice and...

Dalit women on a tour of the US to highlight caste violence

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Come to the ASpace in Philly - #dalitwomenfight photo exhibit is open till September 4! pic.twitter.com/aIUXDTr1IT— DALIT WOMEN FIGHT! (@dalitwomenfight) September 2, 2015 By TCN...

Rajasthan to amend economically backward classes quotas act

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Jaipur: The Rajasthan cabinet on Tuesday approved introduction of a bill in the state assembly for amending legislations relating to reservation for economically backward...

SC to hear Ramdev’s plea on clubbing of cases

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court will Friday hear a plea by yoga guru Baba Ramdev seeking the clubbing together of all cases against him...

Secular India should legislate to stop politics entering religion.

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Ref:- Present laws for stopping religion entering politics are not enough

Dear Sir

The following two events on July, 8-9 cause great concern that warrants immediate legislation by India during coming monsoon session of Parliament to ensure that politics does not enter religion:-

(i)-Media reported that jehadi CDs & incriminating hard disc were found by Bangalore Police from the house of Kafeel & Sabeel , the alleged accused of Glasgow terror blast.

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

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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...

Dalits still converting to Buddhism, but at a dwindling rate

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By Manu Moudgil Around 180 Dalit families converted to Buddhism after caste violence in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh in May 2017. Bhim Army, the...

International community & India should take cognizance of Pakistan’s declared war for Kashmir.

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Ref:- Indo - US nuclear deal bound to be jeopardized. Dear Sir This refers to report in Pakistan media (The News) dated Aug 8, 2007 that while taking part in foreign policy debate in the house, Parliamentary Secretary for Defense Syed Tanveer Hussain said on Tuesday in National Assembly session that: -

Won’t withdraw support to UPA government: Mulayam

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By IANS, New Delhi : Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Friday ruled out withdrawing support to the UPA government, saying it was his political compulsion to keep communal forces at bay.

I dream of a casteless society – Jeyarani

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By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Dalit History Month began in 2015 inspired by the ‘Black History month’ in the US. April is observed as the Dalit...

Haryana pleads for reservation to more castes

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By IANS,

पटना में दलित छात्रों की पिटाई पर गरमायी सियासत

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter पटना / नई दिल्ली : गुजरात के बाद अब बिहार में दलित छात्रों की पिटाई के मुद्दे पर राजनीति गरमाती नज़र आ...

Irani insensitive to Rohith’s family, say varsity teachers

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Hyderabad : Targetting central minister Smriti Irani over suicide of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula, the SC/ST Teachers Forum and Concerned Faculty of University...

Five-year-old Dalit girl raped, murdered in Haryana; community rises in protests

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter On the night of December 8, 2017, a 5-year-old Dalit girl was abducted from her home, raped, murdered and her body...

A prosperous, Muslim-majority district? No wonder Subramanian Swamy wants it under AFSPA

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, Twocircles.net What would you call a district where female literacy is more than 90%? Where the sex ratio is much better than...

CGNet Swara: Voice of the unheard

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Between Arundhati Roy’s walk with the comrades and corporations-backed government war machine mowing down the jungles in Chattisgarh, there are millions of tribals whose voices remain unheard. Not that they cannot speak but there is a barrier to access because of language and remote areas. Knight International Journalism fellow Shubhranshu Choudhary intends to change that by using technology as a platform to make news & information easily accessible to all.