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भीम आर्मी सुप्रीमो चंद्रशेखर ‘रावण’ अस्पताल में भर्ती, प्रशासन पर लापरवाही बरतने का आरोप

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter सहारनपुर : भीम आर्मी के सुप्रीमो चन्द्रशेखर ‘रावण’ की जेल में आज तबीयत बिगड़ने के बाद उन्हें ज़िला अस्पताल के आईसीयू में...

No mandatory arrest for offences under SC/ST Act, says SC

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New Delhi, (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that the arrest of a accused under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of...

Caste System needs to be revised not the system of reservation

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By Manoj Kumar Paras India is the country of unity in diversity. Close look of Indian society give you more insight on diversity than unity....

बुलंदशहर में पुलिस की पिटाई से रिक्शाचालक की मौत,एसपी का इंकार

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net यूपी के बुलंदशहर से दिल को दहला देने वाली घटना सामने आई है जहां एक रिक्शा चालक को पुलिस ने पीट पीटकर मार...

‘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...

Bhagana Dalits get open death threats from Haryana Khap Panchayats for converting to Islam

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi : Death threats have started pouring in for protesting Bhagana Dalits by the Khap Panchayats...

UC Raman, the Dalit face of IUML, aims to strengthen Dalit-Muslim alliance in Kerala

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net Kozhikode: Hardly a day after his candidature was announced, U C Raman made a beeline to Panakkad Syed Hyderali Shihab...

यूपी सरकार के मंत्री का गंभीर आरोप,दलित समाज से होने के कारण हुआ भेदभाव,इस्तीफा

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स्टाफ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश की योगी सरकार अभी 100 दिन पूरे होने की कामयाबी का जश्न मना रही थी कि चार महीने की इस...

Lone survivor of Khairlanji massacre, Bhaiyalal Bhotmange, dies of heart attack

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By Shiva Thorat, Twocircles.net Bhaiyalal Bhotmange, the lone survivor of the Khairlanji massacre, died of a heart attack on Friday, January 20. For the past...

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

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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...

38 wounds on murdered woman’s body, police profile suspect

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Perumbavoor (Kerala) : A poor Dalit woman whose brutal murder has shocked Kerala had 38 wounds on her body, her autopsy revealed, as police...

Manjula Pradeep: Working tirelessly to ensure equal rights for Dalits

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By Amit Kumar For Manjula Pradeep, growing up in Baroda and attending an English-medium school meant her childhood was like any other child, at least...

Vijay Sampla – a first-time BJP MP from Punjab (Profile)

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Chandigarh : Vijay Sampla, who took oath as a minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet Sunday, is a first-time BJP MP from the...

Paswan files nomination from Hajipur

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Patna : Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan Tuesday filed his nomination papers from Hajipur Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar. Bharatiya Janata Party leader...

Rohith Vemula’s death sparks outrage within Indian Diaspora

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By TCN News, Boston: Protests have erupted at major universities and cities across the US and elsewhere, expressing shock and outrage at the death of...

‘Chalo Thiruvananthapuram’ will bring forth issues of Dalits and Adivasis, expose Kerala model of...

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, Twocircles.net Thiruvananthapuram: On the lines of Chalo Una movement in Gujarat followed by Chalo Udupi in Karnataka, Kerala will see the Chalo...

Dalit man who married high-caste girl killed in TN

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Chennai : A 23-year-old Dalit man who married into the politically influential Thevar community was hacked to death in front of a large number...

Success in Bihar victory against RSS, Modi: Rahul

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New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said the success of the Grand Alliance in Bihar was a victory against the RSS,...

Dalit family embraces Islam, media loses objectivity

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By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net,

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

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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...

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...

मुजफ्फरनगर में इज्जत के लिए दलित युवक का क़त्ल

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net मुजफ्फरनगर : शहर की बचन सिंह कॉलानी में 19 साल के एक दलित युवक को ऊंची जात की लड़की से मोहब्बत...

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...

Tension, Dalits’ migration in Haryana village: CM sends minister

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Chandigarh, (IANS): The migration of Dalit families from a Haryana village due to tension in the wake of stone-pelting over 'ghurchari' was raised in...

Maoists need ‘hand holding’: Jamia vice chancellor

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By IANS, New Delhi:Jamia Millia Islamia Vice Chancellor Najeeb Jung Wednesday said that Maoists were "our own people" and needed "hand holding" instead of the government's ruthless supression.

एससी-एसटी आरक्षण के वर्गीकरण के खिलाफ और समर्थन में सजातियों में छुआछूत है बड़ी...

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Poonam Masih, TwoCircles.net देश आजाद होने के बाद संविधान निर्माता डॉ. भीमराव अंबेडकर ने वंचित समुदाय के लिए आरक्षण की मांग करते हुए इसे संवैधानिक...

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.

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,...

British aid worker killed in Afghanistan

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By DPA, Kabul : Taliban fighters killed a British woman aid worker for "spreading Christianity," Monday as she was going to her office in the western part of Kabul, officials said. The attackers, who were riding on motorbike, fled the area after the shooting, interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said. Bashary had earlier said that the aid worker was from South Africa and was working with an aid organization that was helping disabled people in Afghanistan. But the British embassy in Kabul later said that one of the its nationals was killed in the city.

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...

दलितों को भट्टे पर जबरन बंधक बनाकर कराया गया काम, भीम आर्मी लड़ रही...

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net मोरना /सरधना : आज़ाद भारत में ग़ुलामी की दास्तान का एक सनसनीखेज़ मामला सामने आया है. मसला मेरठ और मुज़फ़्फ़रनगर...

दिल्ली में हाथरस जैसी वारदात, 9 साल की मासूम को बलात्कार के बाद जलाया

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विशेष संवाददाता। Twocircles.net राष्ट्रीय राजधानी दिल्ली में 'हाथरस कांड' जैसी रेप वारदात सामने आई हैं। श्मशान घाट में लगे वाटर कूलर से पानी लेने...

Asaduddin Owaisi backs Hyderabad varsity students’ protest

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Hyderabad: MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday sought immediate removal of University of Hyderabad Vice Chancellor Appa Rao over the suicide of a Dalit...

Fasting students at Hyderabad varsity evicted

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Hyderabad: Seven students who were on hunger strike in University of Hyderabad for the last four days were forcibly shifted to hospital on Saturday. With...

Dalit man lynched in Ghaziabad by seven youths

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By IANS, Ghaziabad : A Dalit man was allegedly lynched by seven higher caste youths over a minor altercation in Ghaziabad, neighbouring the national capital, police said Monday. The incident occurred Sunday night in Chitaura locality of this city. According to police, the man, Surendra, 45, went to Hapur to buy a cow and was returning to his home in Noorpur with the purchase alongwith his wife and daughter when he was accosted by seven youths near Chitaura locality on the Upper Ganges canal.

Members of Muslim community celebrated the spirit of harmony on Prakash Utsav

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By TCN News, New Delhi: On the occasion of “Prakash Utsav” of Guru Nanak, members of the Muslim and Dalit community celebrated the spirit...

Dalit killed for demanding wages

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By IANS, Bhopal : A Dalit in a Madhya Pradesh village only wanted payment of wages due to him -- but what he got was death. Mason Ramesh Jatav was allegedly killed after he demanded Rs.4,000 for the work he had done for farmer Shriram Lodhi, police Sunday said. Thirty-eight-year-old Jatav was killed in Shivpuri district Friday night when he had gone to Shriram's house with his wife to demand back-wages. According to police, Shriram and his relative Gabdu Lodhi took the couple to a nearby field and killed Jatav, a resident of Sirsona village, about 350 km from here.

Being Dalit means being casteless – Kavin Malar

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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...

National Commission for Minorities: A year of inaction

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Minorities Commission as a non-statutory body was set up in 1978. In the days following Babri Masjid demolition it was made a statutory body and in 1993 it came to be called National Commission for Minorities (NCM). Its main object is to safeguard the interest of minorities but its power is even less than the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, and National Human Rights Commission. Lacking any effective tool it is merely a spectator that can make some noise but not be part of the game.

यूपी उपचुनाव में विपक्ष को मिल गया जीत का पैटर्न

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आस एम कैफ़ ।Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश में हुए तीन सीटों पर हुए उपचुनाव में खतौली विधानसभा सीट की सबसे अधिक चर्चा है। खतौली में...

दलितों विरोधी मनुवादी एजेंडा लागू नही होने देंगे: चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ़।Twocircles.net नियुक्तियों और प्रमोशन में आरक्षण के मुद्दे पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट के फैसले को लेकर दलितों में आक्रोश बढ़ता जा रहा है। दलित इसके...

‘मैं अंतिम सांस तक डेल्टा के इंसाफ़ के लिए संघर्ष करूंगा’ –राहुल गांधी

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नई दिल्ली : कांग्रेस के उपाध्य़क्ष राहुल गांधी आज डेल्टा मेघवाल के परिवार से मिलने बाड़मेर पहुंचे और डेल्टा के परिवार...

Ashif Sheikh ‘cleaning’ up India’s shame of manual scavenging

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By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,

“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....

Dalit woman branded a witch, thrashed in Rajasthan

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By IANS, Tonk (Rajasthan) : A Dalit woman was labelled a witch and beaten up badly in Rajasthan's Tonk district, police said Sunday. Kamla Bairwa of Jhalra village in Tonk district, over 100 km from Jaipur, stated in her First Information Report (FIR) filed with the police Saturday that some villagers tagged her as a witch, insulted her and then beat her up. "The villagers, especially the women, call me a witch. They insult me, torture me and beat me up. They wanted me to leave the village," Kamla, a labourer, told IANS.

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

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By Xavier Das Friends/comrades,

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...

200 Mahadalits convert to Christianity in Bihar, probe ordered

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Patna : Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi Thursday ordered a probe into the conversion of 40 Mahadalit families comprising 200 people to Christianity...

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.

Adivasi, Muslim and Dalit organizations jointly hoist national flag and condemn growing atrocities

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By TCN News, Jaipur: As many as fifteen Dalit, Muslim and Adivasi organizations jointly celebrated Independence Day here and hold a program in favour of...

दलितों पर हो रहे अत्याचारों के ख़िलाफ़ आवाज़ बुलंद करे —लक्ष्य

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TwoCircles.net News Desk सीतापुर (उत्तर प्रदेश) : ‘आज़ादी के 70 वर्षो बाद भी इस देश में दलितों की कोई सुनने वाला नहीं है. हर घटना...

Atrocities on Dalits: Panel frowns on low conviction rates

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By IANS,

Haryana village appeals to Dalit families to return home

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By IANS, Hisar (Haryana): Residents of a Haryana village Monday made an appeal to Dalit families, who had fled after clashes and arson attack, to return home. Nearly 20 families of Valmiki community in Mirchpur village fled after an arson attack April 21. At least 15 houses were damaged and a 70-year-old Dalit man and his 18-year-old physically challenged daughter were burnt alive.

How Santosh Thorat is helping rebuild homes, increase literacy in Mumbai’s Dalit colonies

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By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net Mumbai: The idea of working for your community does not necessarily mean that you have to be at the forefront...

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.

Dalit agitation forces Gujarat to set up atrocity courts

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Ahmedabad : The Gujarat government on Thursday announced setting up of special courts in 16 districts of the state to handle cases related to...

Untouchables in predatory world of EdTech industry: Making a case for recognition of critical...

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Digital learning carries with it the same biases and inequities that dominate the sphere of traditional education. Riya Talitha | TwoCircles.net NEW DELHI — Rishab P,...

JIH concerned over growing crimes against women in India, spying on citizens, 3rd Covid...

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Addressing an online press meet, Secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) Women’s Department Rahmatunnisa condemned the alleged brutal rape and murder of a nine-year-old Dalit...

Gujarati writer returns award against beating of Dalits

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Ahmedabad : Gujarati writer Amrutlal Makwana has returned a state award he got in protest against the beating of some Dalit youths in the...

Unnao case: “UP Police accused us of inciting riots,” allege Dalit activists, police deny...

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Surpakash Majumdar, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: On February 18, three Dalit girls were found unconscious, tied with a single cloth in a field in Unnao, Uttar...

How is Ghar Vapasi Different from Forcible Conversions?

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By Ram Puniyani, Propaganda around conversions has been one of the major political tools during last few decades. It was Niyogi Commission report which investigated the conversions in Adivasi areas in 1950s, then the Meenaxipuram conversions of Dalits into Islam, the and then the gruesome murder of Pastor Graham Stewart Stains on the charges that he was doing the conversion; are few amongst the big spectrum related to the phenomenon of conversions. As such the regular propaganda by communal forces that Muslim Kings converted people into Islam by sword has been made the part of ‘social common sense’ by now. On regular basis around Christmas time one saw the anti Christian violence in Adivasi areas a decade ago, and in that context rather than focusing on the violence against religious minorities, the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee called for a National debate on Conversions.

Yet another couple attacked over intercaste marriage in Hyderabad

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Hyderabad, Sep 20 (IANS) A man attacked his daughter and son-in-law with a machete and baldy injured them here on Wednesday, in another case...

Police searches at slums in Hyderabad spark fear among slum dwellers

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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...

Principal to be arrested for Bihar Dalit student’s thrashing

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Patna : Bihar Police has ordered the arrest of a Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV)principal for not taking timely action in a Dalit student's thrashing in...

Dalits protest against grabbing of their funeral land in Jalana District of Maharashtra

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By TwoCircles.net staff reporter, Partur : Dalits living in the vicinity of Partur town, district Jalana (Maharashtra) went to the Partur tahesil along with the dead body protesting against the encroachment of their funeral land by some people.

Dhanya Raman: Giving a voice to the marginalised in Kerala

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By Shafeeq Hudawi Thiruvananthapuram: In March 2016, while the entire mainstream media was still busy with the incidents in JNU,...

Jigajinagi, a tall Dalit leader from Karnataka

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New Delhi : Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi, 64, who took oath as Union Minister of State in New Delhi on Tuesday, is a five-time BJP...

Athawale’s remark exposes BJP’s double speak on Bhima-Koregaon: Congress

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New Delhi (IANS): Demanded a fair investigation into the Bhima-Koregaon riots, the Congress on Friday slammed BJP's double speak after NDA ally and Union...

Bhima-Koregaon violence: Prime accused Hindutva leader sent to police custody

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Pune (IANS): A Pune court on Thursday sent to police custody till March 19 Hindutva leader Milind Ekbote who has been accused of provoking...

Krantikari Janata: First Ambedkarite magazine published in Marathi and Urdu and its potential renaissance

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net In an age where social media and websites have become the easiest way to reach audiences, how feasible is it to...

Jairam Ramesh invites corporates to work for tribal welfare

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By IANS, Mumbai: In a first major initiative, the government has reached out to India Inc to involve itself in rural developmental works involving the tribals in central and eastern India.

The anxieties around Dalit-Muslim unity: Part Two

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By Ambedkar Reading Group-Delhi for Twocircles.net Much of the present-day discussions use the category of caste to abandon the Muslim question and see it anew...

Mayawati demands constitution amendment for SC/ST quota

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By IANS,

Will Islam ‘liberate’ Dalits of Bhagana?

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By Vidya Bhushan Rawat, It was around 11 am on August 8 when the ‘Bhagana Kand Dalit Sangharsh Samiti’ had called a meeting at...

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...

‘Very few in media understand Dalit or Muslim issues’

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Naveen Joshi has been associated with journalism for the last 30 years. He has seen the growth of Hindi newspapers from being a poor cousin of English print media to a position of power and influence. Read by crores of Indians every day, content and look of a Hindi newspaper today reflects the aspirations of the reader but still they have yet to become a complete newspaper, feels Naveen Joshi, who is the Editor of Hindi daily Hindustan. Some exercpts from his interview last year with Kashif-ul-Huda of TwoCircles.net:

Meet the ‘Harijans’ in Assam Sweeping a Small Town for Generations

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Arshad Ahmed, TwoCircles.net When the clock ticks 5 a.m., 32-year-old Savita gives one more look in the mirror, fixes her bindi (a red dot on...

Mayawati demands more security for UP polls

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Lucknow : Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati said Tuesday that free and fair polls were not possible in the state under the Samajwadi party...

Cancelling Andhra court bail to Kobad Ghandy meaningless: SC

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By IANS,

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.

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.

SDPI protests at Jantar Mantar against thrashing of dalits in Gujarat

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By TCN News, New Delhi: The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) today held a protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar here and termed the incident...

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...

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.

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

डेल्टा मेघवाल और उसके पिता का दर्द…

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नोखा (राजस्थान) : मेरे लिए आपने आप में एक बेहद मुश्किल काम था. मैं डेल्टा मेघवाल के पिता से रूबरू था....

पटना के महादलित परिवार के बेटे को अमेरिका में ढाई करोड़ की स्कॉलरशिप

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आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net बिहार के पटना के एक दलित दिहाड़ी मजदूर परिवार का बेटा अमेरिका में अपना भविष्य संवारेगा। पटना के फुलवारी शरीफ के गोनपुरा गांव...

Raped Dalit girl battles for life

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Ghaziabad : A minor Dalit girl who set herself on fire after being raped in Ghaziabad is battling for life with 50 percent burns...

Kerala to bring new law to ensure quota for SC/ST in aided colleges

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net Thiruvananthapuram: Taking note of the poor representation of teaching staff belonging to SC/ST sections in aided colleges in the...

भारत में सरकार नाम की कोई चीज़ है या नहीं?

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डॉ. खजान सिंह हाल ही में दबंगो द्वारा गुजरात के ऊना में दलितों के साथ किए गए अमानवीय व्यवहार ने सारे देश के बहुजनो को...

Bhimayana: Where Gond Art Breathes and Ambedkar Speaks – A Visual Rebellion Against Caste...

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“Democracy has not eradicated caste. It has entrenched and modified it. That is why it is time to read Ambedkar.” – Arundhati Roy, The Doctor...

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...

Meeting for Dalit-Muslim unity at Malegaon on 13th February 2019

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Bharatiya Republican Party Bahujan Mahasangh and AIMIM (All India Majlis e ittehadul Muslimeenand AIMIM (All India Majlis e ittehadul Muslimeen) are all set to...

भीमा कोरेगांव में क्या हुआ और क्यों हुआ?

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कलीम अज़ीम, TwoCircles.net के लिए क्या है भीमा कोरेगांव का इतिहास और 200 साल बाद की सियासत? अब पढ़िए आगे… जब लाखों लोग जब भीमा नदी...

Rahul set to visit disfigured Dalit girl in Kanpur hospital

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By IANS,

People from weaker sections treat me as goddess: Mayawati

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New Delhi : Amid protest over Uttar Pradesh BJP leader Daya Shankar Sigh's abusive remark, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati said on Thursday that...

‘Land most important for Kerala Dalits’ – Bluestone rising scholar awardee Maya Pramod

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By Najiya O, TwoCircles.Net Maya Pramod, a research scholar who received the prestigious Bluestone Rising Scholar Prize instituted by the Brandeis University, USA, believes ownership...

RTI yet to reach Orissa’s tribals, Dalits

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By IANS,

Tribal outfit strikes again, Assam death toll is 22

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By IANS, Guwahati: Tribal separatists continued their killing spree in Assam Tuesday, gunning down two more non-tribals and taking the death toll in overnight serial attacks to 22, police said.

Government clampdown on protest over unfair budgetary allocations in education for SCs/STs

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Dalit women activists dragged inside police station, activists allege By TCN News, New Delhi: Over 30 dalit and adivasi students and activists were arrested on Thursday from Shastri Bhavan here when they demanded to meet Smriti Irani, the Union Minister of Human Resource Development, over unfair budgetary allocations in education of dalit and adivasi students.

Modi government spreading hatred in Uttar Pradesh: Mayawati

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Lucknow : BSP supremo Mayawati on Sunday attacked the Narendra Modi government at the Centre, saying it is spreading hatred and communalism in Uttar...

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...

BJP trying to communalise Bihar polls: Nitish

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Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday cautioned people that his main rival BJP wants to disturb peaceful campaigning for state polls by...

On Bhima Koregaon, your Janaeu was shining brightly on Republic TV: An open letter...

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By Disha KR for TwoCircles.net Dear Mr Arnab Goswami, Your debate #Endcastepolitics on both 2nd and 3rd of January is a perfect example of a casteist...

USA ought to mobilize UN for transforming global monetary system

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Ref: To avoid man made financial Tsunamis, Federal interest cut not enough.

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Last week's interest rate cut by Federal Reserve of USA which again injected life in share market of India which got decimated after fall of SENSEX from 22,000 to 16,000 has proved (if at all any proof was needed) that sovereignty in contemporary world has no meaning in traditional sense of the term and USA is economically all powerful to influence economies of various countries including of India, especially in this age of globalization.

Three get death, 20 sentenced to life in Bathani Tola massacre

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By IANS, Patna : A Bihar court Wednesday sentenced to death three men and awarded life imprisonment to 20 others in the Bathani Tola massacre case in which 21 Dalits and poor Muslims were killed by members of the upper caste Ranvir Sena in 1996. The sentence was pronounced by Additional District and Sessions Judge of Ara Civil Court Ajay Kumar Srivastava amid high security. The three sentenced to death are Ajay Singh, Manoj Singh and Narendra Singh. The judge convicted 23 accused and acquitted 30 men due to lack of evidence May 5, a court official said.

Jitan Ram Manjhi: Will he succeed in his gamble?

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By Soroor Ahmed, TwoCircles.net, Though the outgoing Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi earned political martyrdom, yet it is debatable who inflicted more wounds on him. True, the last bullet was fired by his mentor-turned-tormentor Nitish Kumar, the injuries caused to him by the BJP in the first seven months of his nine-month regime proved no less fatal.

Singing for victory: Ramya Haridas– the second Dalit woman parliamentarian from Kerala

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By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net She sang and danced, entered people’s hearts and finally won. Ramya Haridas became the second Dalit woman from Kerala to win...

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...

Apex court okays Tamil Nadu quota law

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday granted protection to Tamil Nadu's quota law which provides 69 percent reservation in educational institutions and jobs to scheduled castes and tribes and other backward classes, but advised the state government to revisit the issue. The apex court bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justices K.S. Radhakrishna Rao and Swatanter Kumar directed the state backward classes commission to revisit the reservation issue in the light of the Mandal case judgement dealing with quotas.

Untouchability practised against CM Manjhi to be probed

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Patna : Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi Monday ordered a high-level probe into the alleged "untouchability" practised by some "powerful people" against him...

Maharashtra orders probe into attack on Dalit woman

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By IANS,

Public prosecutor in the Una Dalit atrocity case quits

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TCN News Citing reasons of security and remuneration, special public prosecutor Dipendra Yadav has written to the legal department to be relieved from the Dalit...

SC to hear challenge to amendment to SC/ST law from March 26

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New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would commence hearing from March 26 on a batch of petitions challenging...

PM to inaugurate conference on Dalits

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By IANS,

Amnesty International asks Chattisgarh govt to investigate rape complaints of Adivasi women

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By TwoCircles.net, Staff Reporter Chhattisgarh: Two weeks after rapes and assaults were reported from Chhattisgarh while security forces were conducting anti-Maoist operations, Amnesty...

Lalu wants Dalits, OBCs as Shankaracharya

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Patna, (IANS): RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Thursday demanded that three of the four Shankaracharyas should be from the Dalit and OBC communities instead...

Dalit IAS officer explores law to preach Christianity

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Chennai : Senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer C. Umashankar is looking at legal options to challenge a government directive forbidding him from preaching...

Fear of “objectionable video” going viral led Dalit youth to commit suicide, says family

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By Inder Bisht, TwoCircles.net Disconsolate parents and siblings of an 18-year-old Dalit youth who had committed suicide in the intervening night of Diwali agreed to...

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

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

Why keeping a moustache continues to be deadly for some Dalits

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Unable to digest upward mobility of many erstwhile untouchables, Dalits now face caste violence over the most mundane things including a moustache. Smitha R |...

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.

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

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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...

#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...

‘Voters or Citizens,’ Matua community hold key in West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021

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The Matua community, with 1.5 crore voters, has always been politically active in West Bengal. Amid political drama and family feuds with fiery statements,...

BJP’s defeat is seldom analyzed deeply

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By Soroor Ahmed, TwoCircles.net, When the Bharatiya Janata Party performed badly in the August 21 by-polls in Bihar––it could win only four out of 10 seats––it was attributed to the coming together of RJD, JD(U) and Congress. But how will the BJP explain losing three out of nine seats in prime minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat, three out of four in Rajasthan and eight out of 11 in Uttar Pradesh. After all the BJP-led alliance had won 124 out of 131 Lok Sabha seats in these three states in the parliamentary election held in May 2014.

‘Liberal’, ‘Ambedkerite’ Islamophobia and communal violence: A counter narrative

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By Dr Mohammad Kamran Ahsan As hate becomes the fulcrum, and the new normal of Indian polity, various view-points have emerged analysing this institutionalised hatred...

Dalit funds not diverted to CWG: Dikshit

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By IANS, New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Tuesday dismissed allegations by her Uttar Pradesh counterpart Mayawati that the city government had diverted funds meant for Dalit upliftment to the Commonwealth Games. "We have not diverted any funds from the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes welfare schemes for the Commonwealth Games," Dikshit told reporters here. Mayawati had Monday alleged that the Delhi government had diverted Rs.750 crore meant for Dalit welfare to the Oct 3-14 Games.

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

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By IANS,

The University is a Graveyard. Burn it down

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By Anubhuti Agnes Bara for TwoCircles.net “…It leads to no good if institutions that grant titles, qualifications, and other prerequisites for life or a profession...

Young Dalit writer attacked, threatened in Karnataka

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Bengaluru: A young Dalit writer, who wrote a book against the caste system and Hinduism, was threatened by a few unidentified youth in Karnataka's...

बसपा ने 51 टिकट किए घोषित,23 मुसलमान बनाएं उम्मीदवार

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न्यूज़ डेस्क। Two circles.net बहुजन समाज पार्टी ने यूपी के दूसरे चरण के चुनाव के लिए प्रत्याशियों की सूची जारी कर दी है। बहुजन समाज...

Dalit-speak of PM Modi, BJP a sham, says Mayawati

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Lucknow, (IANS): Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Saturday lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said his words and the acts...

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

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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...

Muslim, tribal and dalit women demand a sub-quota within women’s reservation

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Coimbatore: Putting an end to saffronization of education and history; justice and rehabilitation of riot victims; enactment of laws to punish acid attack culprits; stopping forceful sterilization of women and immediate stopping of false propaganda of ‘Love Jihad’ are among the eight resolutions passed at the ‘Awakening’, the first national conference of the National Women’s Front.

Obituary to Ambedkarite poet and writer, Ketan Pimpalapure

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

Gita: Not a Religious book?

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By Ram Puniyani

BSP wipeout: Is Mayawati losing touch with her vote bank?

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By Ranjana Narayan, New Delhi : The Narendra Modi-led BJP wave has left many political parties reeling, but perhaps the most surprising has been the...

Seed companies involved in child labour in India, reveals study

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: In a shocking revelation, a study has pointed out the grim realities on the use of...

दलितों के भविष्य को मज़बूत बना रही हैं ये भीम पाठशालाएं

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर/मुज़फ़्फ़रनगर : “वो क्या है जिसे हम देख तो सकते हैं, मगर छू नहीं सकते. इस सवाल पर कक्षा के...

Civil society adopts 7 point resolution over “Liberty and Fraternity in the Constitution: A...

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Many social activists, academicians, researchers and prominent citizens took part in a discussion on “Liberty and Fraternity in the...

In Amul town, Dalits drink milk to protest

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Ahmedabad : The protests by Dalits over the July 11 flogging of Dalit boys in Una by self-styled cow protection vigilantes continued for the...

Senior IAS joins JD-U, to contest polls

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Patna : Three days after taking voluntary retirement, IAS officer K.P. Ramiyah Monday joined Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) -- and is set to...

Rajya Sabha disrupted over Selja’s claim of caste bias

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New Delhi : The government and the opposition locked horns in the Rajya Sabah on Wednesday when the treasury benches contradicted Congress member Kumari...

Dalit party upset with Sena-BJP in Maharashtra

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By IANS,

अंबेडकर नगर में दलित युवक की पिटाई से मौत, परिजनों ने पुलिस पर लगाया...

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के अंबेडकरनगर में पुलिस की पिटाई से एक दलित युवक की मौत का मामला सामने आया है। मृतक के परिजनों ने...

Mayawati blames BJP, RSS for Dalit atrocities

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Ahmedabad : BSP chief Mayawati on Thursday visited the Dalits beaten up by self-styled cow vigilantes and blamed the BJP and RSS for rising...

Matto Ki Saikil highlights everyday gendered, casteist reality of Indian villages

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Aatika S., a fellow at TwoCircles.net interviews Pulkit Philip, the screenplay writer of film Matto Ki Saikil The newly released film, Matto Ki Saikil (2022) directed...

Know the law: How to get bails

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By Avani Bansal for TwoCircles.net -- Advocate Avani Bansal is currently a student doing Masters at Harvard Law School . She pursued MPhil in Law at...

Seminar: On the Kerala Muslim Model of Development

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Dear Sir/Madam,

Are you interested to understand what it means to be an Indian Muslim? Where does the Indian Muslim stand in comparison with his/her fellow countrymen? Are you anxious about the present and future of the Indian Muslim society? Where does the solution lie? In particular, what lessons can be learned from the Kerala Muslim example?

If you have something to say, a golden opportunity is waiting for you to be part of a serious discussion at the