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क्या है भीमा कोरेगांव का इतिहास और 200 साल बाद की सियासत?

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कलीम अज़ीम, TwoCircles.net के लिए 1 जनवरी 1818 को ईस्ट इंडिया कंपनी और पेशवा के बीच पुणे ज़िले के ‘भीमा कोरेगांव’ में लड़ाई हुई थी....

‘Sangma not representative of tribals’

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‘Sometimes My Chest Burns, But I Still Go Up’: The Silent Suffering of Women...

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Saloni Sharma, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: Long before the city awakens, Ansura, a rag picker, begins her climb every morning. With a torn sack slung over...

Ramdev insulted Dalits, women: Congress

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New Delhi: Congress Saturday accused Ramdev of insulting Dalits and women, a day after the yoga guru said Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi visited...

Unhappy with cases against Dalits, Chandrashekhar Ravan sits on fast until death inside prison

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By Siddhant Mohan & Aas Mohammad Kaif, TwoCircles.net Chandrashekhar Azad 'Ravan', the founder of Bhim Army, has decided to fast until death inside the prison,...

Faridabad arson: Fight between two thriving families?

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Faridabad: In a horrendous incident, two children were burnt alive when a Dalit family's house was set afire in a Faridabad village on...

In Maharashtra, a unique attempt to bring a smile to the faces of Dalit...

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By Imran Inamdar, TwoCircles.net Apart from fasting, the pious month of Ramadan is also seen as an ideal time to spread the messages and teachings...

Petitions against reserving MCD seats for SCs dismissed

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By IANS,

राजस्थान तो दलितों के लिए नरक जैसा है: रेनू मेघवंशी

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

Why is conversion to Buddhism so controversial?

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

Five bodies found missing from Bihar graveyard

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Patna : In a bizarre incident, miscreants have dug out five bodies from a graveyard in Bihar’s Purnea district, police said Wednesday. Purnea superintendent of...

सफ़ाई-कर्मियों की हो रही लगातार मौत का ज़िम्मेदार कौन?

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सुनील कुमार, TwoCircles.net के लिए दिल्ली और एनसीआर में पिछले दो माह से लगातार सिवरेज में दुर्घटना होने की ख़बरें आ रही हैं. इन दुर्घटनाओं...

Dalits protest in a police station of Usmanabad with woman’s ‘dead body’

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By TwoCircles.net staff reporter, Usmanabad (Maharashtra): Dalit leaders and activists staged a protest by keeping body of Kamlavati Kamble for almost six hours in the Lohara police station premises in the district demanding arrest of those responsible for her death.

Erasing tolerance? HAF’s changes can only be described as ahistorical edits to history books

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The HAF and its allies may have PR machinery and hundreds of thousands of dollars in their war chest to selectively change textbooks, but...

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...

Reservations and Muslims in Telugu States

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By Shaik Amer Arafath for TwoCircles.net, When our Constitution was framed, the framers made a special provision with intention to provide equal opportunity in the...

For Asit Sapkale, music is synonymous with resistance

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By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net 'Music for a cause' has been used, and abused by artists so often that one cannot help but become a little...

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...

बुंदेलखंड : वोट के लिए दलितों को प्रताड़ित कर रहे हैं भाजपा प्रत्याशी

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प्रियंका कोटमराजू और अंशु ललित, TwoCircles.net बुंदेलखंड : 'वोट नहीं दोगे, तो देख लेंगे. सरकारी नल से पानी नहीं पीने देंगे, सरकारी रोड पर चलने...

जब जाट मुसलमान और दलित हुए एक तो फिर कैसे खिलता कमल का फूल!

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net कैराना लोक सभा उपचुनाव में सब कुछ था--मुस्लिम प्रत्याशी, पांच लाख मुसलमान, प्रत्याशी किसी दल का, सिंबल दूसरे दल का, जिन्ना...

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...

Gangrapes, murders and broken busts of Babasaheb: How Jind in Haryana has become a...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Several stories are coming out Jind related to how the state has been failing Dalits in the region. On Jan 18,...

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

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

यूपी विधानसभा चुनाव : 143 हारी हुई सीटों पर सपा के 27 मुस्लिम प्रत्याशी

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter लखनऊ– उत्तर प्रदेश का चुनाव नज़दीक आते ही सूबे में राजनीतिक गतिविधियां गर्म हो गयी हैं. सत्ताधारी समाजवादी पार्टी ने आज यहां 2012 विधानसभा चुनाव में हारी हुई सीटों पर प्रत्याशियों की पहली सूची जारी कर दी है.

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.

Government formulates umbrella scheme for ST students

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New Delhi : The union tribal welfare ministry has formulated an umbrella scheme for education of Scheduled Tribes (ST) students by merging a few...

Dalit samaj continue strike for special component plan

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New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Delhi Social Welfare Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam said on Saturday that he will meet members of Akhil Bhartiya Ambedkar...

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

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

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”...

Dalit woman alleges dowry harassment, gangrape

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By IANS, Panchkula (Haryana): Haryana police Wednesday ordered a probe into allegations of dowry harassment and gangrape made by a Dalit woman against her Jat husband and his accomplices, officials said. According to police, Sheena (name changed) and her family members met Haryana Director General of Police (Administration) Swaranjit Singh at the police headquarters here Tuesday and submitted a written complaint against her husband Sukhwinder Singh and others.

Women’s Day: March planned to Chouhan’s house Tuesday

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By IANS,

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

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

Pregnant Dalit woman beaten up in Gujarat

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Ahmedabad : A pregnant Dalit woman was attacked by some upper caste people who barged into their home after her family refused to clear...

Appointment of non-Brahmins in Kerala temples widely lauded, Brahmin sect warns of agitation

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net Thiruvananthapuram: The decision by Kerala Government to follow reservation norms in appointing priests from backward communities in temples under the Travancore...

Demolition of Bogada Chawl: 205 residents displaced in heavy monsoon

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net Mumbai: Kishor Jagtap is on fast again. The eminent activist and senior social worker from Mumbai, known for his history of...

Labour rights activist Shiv Kumar released from jail after 48 days, taken to hospital...

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Labour rights activist and President of Mazdoor Adhikar Manch (MAS) was released on March 4 after being incarcerated for 48 days in a case...

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

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

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...

आज़मगढ़ में दलित उत्पीड़न के मामले ने तूल पकड़ा

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स्टाफ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के आजमगढ़ जिले के एक गांव में दलितों पर पुलिस उत्पीड़न का मामला सामने आया है। गांव में दो पक्षों...

Congress leader to meet Uttar Pradesh Dalit rape victim

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By IANS,

Who is Sant Ravidas and why are his devotees agitating? Pardeep Attri provides background

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Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net On August 10th, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), on the orders of Supreme Court, demolished a Sant Guru Ravidas temple in Tughlakabad...

Dr.Ambedkar’s views on minority rights, democracy and Hindu majoritarianism

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By Badre Alam & Sanjay Kumar for TwoCircles.net Editors: Prof. Christophe Jaffrelot and Dr Narender Kumar Publisher: Oxford University Press Pages: 263 Price (Hardbound): Rs 850 Professor Christophe Jaffrelot...

Tribal women in Jhargram protest against Maoist-led group

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By IANS, Kolkata: Coming out in protest for the first time, thousands of tribal women in Maoist-affected Jhargram in West Bengal's West Midnapore district Friday held a demonstration against a rebel-led tribal group for forcing them to join their agitations. The women also formed a committee to resist the alleged torture of them by members of the Peoples' Committee Against Police Atrocities' (PCAPA).

Will torch myself if not given a home, says poor Dalit

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By IANS, Patna: Many rural poor are upset over alleged corruption in getting houses under a central government scheme and a 30-year-old Dalit woman has threatened to set herself on fire if she does not get a home due to her. Ramvati Devi, a resident of Begusarai district, has threatened to set herself on fire April 1 if she is not provided a house under the Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) before that. She says her name was in the 2008 waiting list of the scheme. "I will set myself on fire to protest injustice. I am a victim of injustice and corruption in the scheme.

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.

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...

Former face of Gujarat Riots to join Azadi Kooch, will work for Dalit Muslim...

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By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net Dasha, Gujarat: Ashok Parmar, who came into limelight during post godhra riots in 2002 when he was captured by photographer Sebastian...

India disturbed over imminent institutionalization of martial primacy in Pakistan

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Ref:- Federation of SAARC countries with dyarchy, inevitable Dear Sir

Despite improvements, Dalits continue to lag behind: Kumari Selja

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Dalit women in Haryana to march for redressal of cases of atrocities committed by...

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By Lalita Sharma, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch (AIDMAM) is organizing a Pad Yatra (long-march) in in Kurukshetra for redressal of pending cases against atrocities faced by Dalits, particularly women, beginning February 17. They organized a similar march last year as well.

Empowerment Conference by AMU Alumni Forum- UAE to revive the Aligarh Movement

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By TCN News Sharjah, UAE: In an attempt to revive the spirit of Aligarh Movement of Sir Syed Ahmad, an Empowerment Conference 2016 is being...

Dalit activists join DU teachers against four-year course

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By IANS,

Murder and Mystery: Silence Shrouds Tragic Tale of a Dalit Family in Bhopal

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TCN Correspondent Bhopal: Following the deaths of three members in the past one year, silence prevails at Raghuvir Ahirwar’s home. This Dalit family lives on the...

Ramabai Nagar: 17 Years, 11 deaths, 26 injured and Justice is still awaiting

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By Yogesh Maitreya, Daisy Katta, “That firing was something as if it was firing of India and Pakistan war” said Bhante Kashyap, reminiscently, one of the eye witnesses of Ramabai Nagar homicide of 1997, in the heartland locality of Mumbai, Ghatkopar East. Another narrator and also an eye witness of this arrogantly brutal massacre of Dalits in Ramabai Nagar, has depicted how thirteen years old boy had been shot dead by police’s bullet hitting his skull and splintered it in two pieces. Few more eye witnesses as well as victims, after seventeen years of the incidence have gathered courage to come up on the stage, provided by ‘Ramabai Nagar Hatyakand Sangharsh Samitee’ at their arranged conference at Ramabai Nagar, on the seventeenth anniversary of this incidence.

Rajya Sabha MP Maulana Balyawi not happy with HRD Minister’s evasive answer

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By TwoCircles.net staff reporter, Patna: Janta Dal (United) MP from Bihar Maulana Gulam Rasool Balyawi expressed his displeasure at evasive answers to his questions in the Rajya Sabha yesterday. Maulana Balyawi who became a Rajya Sabha MP in 2014 asked the Humran Resource Development Minister about incidence of discrimination against dalit and Muslim children in schools and report on the government monitoring of the discrimination.

In Sultanpur, upper-caste attack on Dalit family leaves one dead, 3 injured

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter After a few calm days in Uttar Pradesh, caste violence has now engulfed Sultanpur in Eastern UP. Ramnathpur village of Sultanpur had...

India at par with Afghanistan, Iraq, and Egypt in violation of religious freedom, reports...

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has alleged that 10 of the 29 Indian states are suffering from...

Protest in Boston against arbitrary arrest of human rights defenders in India

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By TCN News: Boston, MA, US: Over 50 people assembled at Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to protest against the arbitrary arrests of human rights defenders...

जेयूसीएस ने चुनाव आयोग की शुचिता पर उठाए सवाल, कहा आयोग कर रहा साम्प्रदायिक...

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By TCN News, लखनऊ : पिछले दिनों मीडिया में आए वीडियो पर योगी आदित्यनाथ ने आरोप लगाया कि इसके पीछे नक्सलवादी ताकतों की साज़िश है. इसके बाद वीडियो के मूल स्रोत डाक्यूमेंट्री फिल्म ‘सैफ्रन वार’ के निर्माता-निदेशक सदस्यों ने इसे उल-जलूल हरकत करार देते हुए फिल्म में उठाए गए दलितों के हिन्दूकरण, महिला हिंसा, देश विरोधी विदेशी संगठनों से योगी के गठजोड़ और राष्ट्रपिता महात्मा गांधी की हत्या में इस राजनीति की भूमिका से ध्यान हटाने की कोशिश बताया. डॉक्यूमेंट्री फिल्मकार शाहनवाज़ आलम, राजीव यादव और लक्ष्मण प्रसाद ने कहा कि योगी आदित्यनाथ वीडियो को कभी अपना तो कभी कट- पेस्ट बता रहे हैं, लेकिन हमने पहले भी मीडिया द्वारा इस बात को संज्ञान में लाया है कि इस वीडियो के मूल स्रोत को न्यायालय से लेकर चुनाव आयोग सभी को सौंपा जा चुका है. लेकिन सरकार योगी पर किसी भी कार्यवाही के बजाय मुद्दे को सिर्फ चुनावी रणनीति की तरह देख रही है. योगी आदित्यनाथ भी इस अनदेखी का पूरा लाभ उठा रहे है. इस मामले में कोई भी कार्यवाही न करके चुनाव आयोग अपनी जवाबदेही से तो बच ही रहा है, साथ ही योगी को बचाने वाले अपने अधिकारियों को भी बचाने की कोशिश में लगा हुआ है.

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.

Bihar chief minister to learn Urdu

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Patna : Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi will soon take lessons in Urdu and may hire a teacher for the purpose. "I will try...

Mayawati flays ‘anti-Dalit’ temple ritual in Karnataka

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By IANS,

Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani rejects invite to CPM programme in Kerala

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

पूर्व कर्नल बनाम एडीएम विवाद: क्या दलित होने की सज़ा भुगत रहे है एडीएम...

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ | नॉएडा/मुज़फ्फरनगर मुजफ्फरनगर में शनिवार को दलितों ने जिलाधिकारी आवास पर प्रदर्शन किया,दलितों के कई संगठन बेहद नाराज थे.नाराजगी उत्तर प्रदेश के...

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...

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.

लेखकों ने साहित्य अकादमी अवार्ड वापिस लेने शुरू किए

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter नई दिल्ली: लंबा वक़्त नहीं बीता जब विचारकों और लेखकों ने एमएम कलबुर्गी, नरेन्द्र दाभोलकर और गोविन्द पान्सारे की हत्याओं और...

Send us to Pakistan, but don’t ask us to go back to our villages,...

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By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, Hissar/New Delhi: On Sunday, May 11, a large number of Dalit women from a village in Haryana staged a protest outside the residence of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, demanding the arrest of a village head and his son over the alleged gang rape of four minor girls. Earlier on May 5, about hundreds of them had organised a candle-march at Jantar Mantar seeking justice for the four girls who were gang-raped by a group of boys from the dominant Jat community. Police had put barricade as safety-measure and did not allow them to move beyond a certain limit.

Students flock to Hyderabad varsity for protest

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Hyderabad: Tension prevailed in the University of Hyderabad on Monday with students from other states reaching here for a massive protest over the suicide...

Two BSP MLAs accuse Mayawati of selling tickets for crores

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Lucknow : Two Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislators raised the banner of revolt against the party leadership on Wednesday and accused party chief Mayawati...

Writers, publishers, journalists and social activists condemn police action against Forward Press

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More than 350 writers, publishers, journalists and social activists from Hindi, English and Marathi, including Uday Prakash, Arundhati Rai, Shamshul Islam, Sharan Kumar Limbale, Kanwal Bharti, Giriraj Kishor, Anand Teltumbade, Manglesh Dabral, Anil Chamadia, Apoorvanand, Veerbharat Talwar, Ram Puniyani , S.Anand and others condemned police action against Forward Press last week.

Caste system like Taliban, needs to be discussed: Sharad Yadav

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New Delhi : Atrocities against Dalits have been increasing since Independence, and the caste system in India has a "Taliban-like attitude", Janata Dal-United leader...

Congress, BJP trade barbs over JNU row, Rohith Vemula issue

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New Delhi : Amid heated arguments between the opposition and the treasury benches, the Lok Sabha on Wednesday discussed the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)...

Have quotas in judges appointment, SC told

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday was told that besides being meritorious candidates to be considered for judgeship, it should address the question...

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

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

Backward classes panel for quota in private sector

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New Delhi : The National Commission of Backward Classes has written to the social justice ministry to bring a bill for providing 27 percent...

डेल्टा मेघवाल : सारे सरकारी आश्वासन झूठे निकले

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नई दिल्ली : राजधानी दिल्ली में बलात्कार व उसके बाद हत्या की कोई घटना होती है तो हमारी संवेदना सड़क पर...

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...

A Dalit Girl Dreamed of Belonging – Until She Saw What They Really Thought

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Swastika Verma, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: Feminism in India remains a tender and often misunderstood subject. Half the population is unfamiliar with its meaning, while the...

‘We’ll Keep Opposing:’ – National Protest of Dalit Christians & Dalit Muslims organised by...

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Riya Talitha | TwoCircles.net NEW DELHI –On March 28, around 1,500 demonstrators gathered at Jantar Mantar to demand the inclusion of Dalit Christians in the...

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...

दलित हत्याओं के खिलाफ़ जंतर-मंतर पर प्रदर्शन

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By TCN News, नई दिल्ली: हरियाणा के फरीदाबाद में 20 अक्टूबर 2015 को दबंगों ने रात में सोते हुए एक दलित परिवार पर पेट्रोल डालकर...

Government will ensure complete freedom of faith: Modi

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New Delhi: Coming out unequivocally for the first time against recent attacks on churches and controversial utterances by right-wing fringe elements, Prime Minister Narendra...

CPI-M to form all India Dalit front in November

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Agartala : The CPI-M will form an All India Dalit Exploitation Liberation Manch (AIDELM) Nov 27 in New Delhi, a party politburo member has...

Dalits oppose invitation to ‘only’ upper caste speakers for yearly memorial lecture at Ambedkar...

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By TCN News, New Delhi: The members of Dalit Bahujan Adivasi Collective have written an open letter to the Vice Chancellor, Ambedkar University, Delhi (AUD)...

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.

Kerala seeks Karnataka’s help in ragging case of Dalit nursing student

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Kozhikode (Kerala) : The Kerala Police has approached its Karnataka counterparts to register a case against two college students for brutally ragging a Dalit...

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...

DMK allots Chidambaram constituency to VCK

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Chennai : The DMK Thursday inked a seat sharing agreement with Dalit party VCK. allotting it Tamil Nadu's Chidambaram constituency for the general elections. A...

Tension in Ghaziabad after Ambedkar statue vandalised

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Ghaziabad : The defiling of a statue of the chief architect of the Indian Constitution and Dalit icon Bhimrao Ambedkar here has led to...

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...

BSP candidate slaps Ramdev with case in Bihar

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Patna : Chandradip Ram, BSP candidate from Bihar's Gopalganj constituency, Tuesday filed a case against yoga guru Ramdev for his remarks on Congress vice...

Prominent US-based Dalit activists call for international support against caste-based violence

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TCN News India Civil Watch International has recently published an online series that was originally prepared by prominent African-American and Dalit activists as a protest against...

AIMMM delegation meets victims of Una violence case, asks for CBI inquiry

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By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net A four-member delegation of All India Muslim Majlis e Mushawarat, led by its President Navaid Hamid, visited 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...

Court notice to 82 acquitted in Mirchpur Dalit killing

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By IANS,

TCN questions for Narendra Modi

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By TwoCircles.net team, New Delhi: BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has opened up for interviews and he is being interviewed by number of TV...

‘Dalits still being targetted in Uttar Pradesh’

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By IANS,

The new Pathans

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Folklore in northern India goes something like this. A Brahmin, with his sacred threat ceremoniously held over his ear, was standing on the side of the road and answering the call of nature. He got a big thump on his back. Flabbergasted, on turning to see what had hit him, he found a Pathan with all his colorful native plume decorating his head as his regalia, was fuming over his act of sacrilege. The Pathan said: Pandit, how dare you pee while facing the west, where is our Ka'aba. Don't you know we pray our Namaz facing west towards our Holy Ka'aba? You are insulting our Holy Masjid.

Speakers indict Narendra Modi for orchestrating gender violence and serious violations of...

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By TCN News, A packed meeting at the London School of Economics organised by the LSE Gender Institute in collaboration with the Freedom Without Fear Platform and South Asia Solidarity Group on 3rd March, discussed the rise of Hindu fascism and its impact on gender and called for Narendra Modi to be brought to justice.

Una incident organised crime against Dalits: Mamata

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Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday condemned the thrashing of Dalit youths in Gujarat's Una and...

Distorted hierarchy of political values of ‘Absolute Democracy (Republic)’ over ‘Human Rights’ claimed Benazir.

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Ref: - Lack of human values of non-interventionist UN, the result of shirking Christianity. Dear Sir

Census 2011: India’s Muslims are no better today than a few decades earlier

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BY Sourjya Bhowmick, Via Catch News Recently released Census 2011 data based on religious faiths has revealed that Muslims have the lowest share...

How the life of a Sufi leader paved way for interfaith harmony in Kerala

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net Malappuram: At a time when inter-religious conflicts are rearing their ugly heads across the country, Mamburam Makham in Malappuram...

Dalit couple lynched in Punjab ‘honour killing’

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By Parminder Singh Bariana , Hoshiarpur (Punjab):The failure of Punjab Police to provide security to a newly-married Dalit couple despite directions from the high court...

A week after reinstating Ravidas Jayanti as school holiday, UP government cancels it

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net The UP government has once again cancelled the state holiday on Ravidas Jayanti from its list of holidays of state-run schools...

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...

रिजर्व सीट यूपी : 62 आरक्षित सीटों पर जीती बीजेपी, 17 पर सपा ने...

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स्टाफ रिपोर्टर। Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के विधानसभा चुनाव के चुनावी समीकरण का एक रोचक तथ्य सामने आया है कि जिस दल ने सबसे ज्यादा आरक्षित...

‘जब तक दिलीप सरोज के परिवार को न्याय नहीं मिल जाता, तब तक आंदोलन...

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TwoCircles.net News Desk लखनऊ : दलितों के बीच काम करने वाली ‘लक्ष्य’ नामक एक संस्था की लखनऊ टीम ने दलित छात्र दिलीप सरोज की इलाहबाद...

Dalit Mahila Swabhiman Yatra culminates after month long journey

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By Lalita, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: On March 12, 2014, hundreds of Dalit women from many states, including Bihar, Chattishgarh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, arrived at Jantar Mantar in Delhi for a large public meeting to share experiences and express collective declaration for their rights and dignity.

“Aren’t we human?,” ask Dalit families after demolition of their settlement in Chennai street,...

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Nearly seventy-seven Dalit families in Thangavelu Street, T. Nagar, Chennai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu are stranded in the streets after...

S Chandra Mohan: The poet of an enlightened Ambedkarite era

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By Vidya Bhushan Rawat for Twocircles.net S. Chandra Mohan’s poetry reflects the brilliance of his thought process and the rebel inside him. The sheer diversity...

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...

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....

Irked with denial of water by upper castes, Dalit man digs up well in...

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Washim (Maharashtra): In an exemplary display of courage and commitment, a dalit man from a drought-hit village in Washim district...

2-year-old girl dies in Bihar on way to hospital as roads blocked due to...

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Patna, Sep 10 (IANS) A critically ill two-year-old girl died on Monday on her way to a hospital as Bharat Bandh supporters blocked roads...

Triangular contest in Dhamdaha revives memories of caste wars in Bihar

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By Brajendra Nath Singh Dhamdaha (Purnia) : Shambhu Bhagat (48) of Haldibari village in Dhamdaha was emotional while recounting the murder of his...

Fai says Kashmiris not tired of struggle

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By TARIQ NAQASH Muzaffarabad: A distinguished Kashmiri thinker has dismissed what he said wrong information in a dominant segment of Pakistan that the people of Jammu and Kashmir had gown tired of struggle for freedom. “Those who think or say that now the people of Kashmir are tired seem to be influenced by wrong information. They should correct themselves,” said Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, executive director of Washington based Kashmiri American Council.

Congress, BJP treat Dalits as vote bank: Mayawati

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Lucknow : Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and BSP chief Mayawati lashed out at the Congress and the BJP on Tuesday, accusing the two...

PM’s Dalit comment sounded like film’s dialogue: Yechury

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New Delhi : Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Communist Party of India-Marxist General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Tuesday that his...

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...

BJP’s Dalit outreach under threat

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By Amulya Ganguli There is a long way to go before Uttar Pradesh can become Uttam Pradesh, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised after his...

Bihar outcome a referendum on Modi: Kejriwal

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New Delhi: The BJP-led coalitionÂ’s defeat in Bihar was a referendum on Prime Minister Narendra ModiÂ’s working style, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said...

Sambhaji Brigade receives threat through packet of explosive

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net, Pune: Sambhaji Brigade, an extremist organisation and proponent of Maratha reservation and Shiv-dharma, has received an anonymous packet containing explosives here. The...

Kerala police closing in on murderer of Jisha

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Perumbavoor (Kerala) : Even as the rape and murder of a Dalit law student continued to rock the poll-bound state of Kerala, police on...

#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...

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...

NRI Ambedkarites demand immediate prosecution of Hathras rape accused

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TCN News Scores of NRI Ambedkarites from the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Nederland, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Japan, Korea, Singapore, New Zealand, Belgium, Hungary, Australia,...

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.

Four held for alleged forced conversion in Bihar

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Patna : Four of the seven people accused of forcing to convert a Dalit family to Islam have been arrested in Bihar's Sitamarhi district,...

मोदी जी के संसदीय क्षेत्र में महिलाएं नहीं दे सकतीं अपना मांग-पत्र

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TCN News, वाराणसी: नफरत और हिंसा की राजधानी के खिलाफ रोजी-रोटी-रोजगार के लिए ऐपवा ने संविधान दिवस पर महिला अधिकार मार्च निकाला.लम्बे समय से सरकार की...

थोड़ा-सा जहर, रस्‍सी, इच्‍छा-मृत्‍यु और रोहित वेमुला का खत

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नासिरूद्दीन 18 दिसम्‍बर 2015 यानी ठीक एक साल पहले. हमारे जैसे सभ्‍य नागरिक समाज के लोगों का एक आम-सा दिन था. मगर हैदराबाद केद्रीय...

BSP calls off agitation after police assures arrest of Singh

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Lucknow : Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) workers on Thursday afternoon called off their agitation here against former Uttar Pradesh BJP Vice-President Daya Shankar Singh...

A crore votes at stake, Trinamool, CPI-M, Congress, BJP share dais

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By IANS,

‘दलित महिलाओं के ज़िन्दा जलाने पर नेताओं की चुप्पी दुखद’

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TwoCircles.net News Desk हरदोई : ‘इलाहाबाद में क़ानून की पढ़ाई कर रहे दलित समाज के दिलीप सरोज की निर्मम हत्या को हम भूले भी नहीं...

Acid attacks: SC raises compensation, asks pvt hospitals to provide full treatment

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: In a remarkable judgment, the Supreme Court has ruled that compensation amount to the acid attack victim cannot...

Modi must speak against growing intolerance: NCSC chief

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Agartala: Prime Minister Narendra Modi must react over "growing intolerance" in India since after the NDA government came to power, National Commission for the...

Jaitanpur: A neglected village an hour away from Lucknow

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By Vanya Mehta, TwoCircles.net, Road to Delhi goes through Lucknow, so they say. After about an hour drive north of UP’s capital on a smooth two-lane Sitapur Road, take a sharp turn down a rickety dirt path and you will reach Jaitanpur, a small village surrounded by fields of wheat, sugar cane, rice, mustard seeds, and groundnuts. Driving past the fields, a mosque, and a traffic jam of trucks carrying bricks, and reach the home of the residents of Jaitanpur, a series of small shacks with haystacks for walls. Just 60 km away from the state capital, government services have yet to reach this part of the state.

J.V. Pawar: A life dedicated to Ambedkarite movement

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net J.V. Pawar is 74 years old and recently underwent a cataract operation. But age and medical issues do not prevent him...

Mahadalits return to Bihar village after assurance of security

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Patna : Nearly 300 Mahadalits who had fled their Bihar village after being threatened by upper caste men returned home Sunday following assurances of...

Computerise Capitalâ€™s mosques, suggests Delhi Minorities Panel

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Dear Sirs,

Computerizing the mosques and minorities is a very good idea for empowerment of the minorities and poverty alleviation of the marginalized and deprived class of society.

Biometric registration of every minority and tracking their health, education, skills, employment and old age pension would go a long way in alleviating poverty.

The Zakat payments can also be tracked effectively using the biometric smart cards.