Immigrant Muslim woman to be the first hijab-wearing senator in Australian parliament

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Nursing school in Srinagar asks students to sign affidavit banning Abaya, covering face during...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Srinagar: A nursing school in Srinagar district of Jammu and Kashmir has landed itself in controversy after directing its students to...

Singur after six year: Voice of only Muslim Panchayat member Ashia Begum

By Zaidul Haque, TwoCirclees.net, Part 3 of the three part series on Singur. Part 1: Six years later

19-year-old Maryam Siddiqui bags top spot in GenZ Leadership Olympiad

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter New Delhi: Nineteen-year-old Maryam Siddiqui, a first-year Bachelors in Architecture student of Jamia Millia Islamia, has brought laurels to the university...

Indian tribal women’s ‘smart’ ride to economic self-reliance

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Historian Rana Safvi bags Yamin Hazarika Woman of Substance Award 2020 

By Aas Mohammad Kaif, TwoCircles.net Renowned historian and author Rana Safvi has won this year’s Yamin Hazarika Award. The prestigious award is given in the...

How Muslim women in India resist online abuse

Muslim women received significantly more abuse when compared to women from other religions. They received 55.5% more problematic or abusive content. Suchitra | TwoCircles.net NEW...

Meet Naziya & Shabrun, two Muslim nurses from Bihar awarded by President Murmu for...

The young nurses believe that more Muslim girls across the country should opt for the nursing profession to serve society.  Sami Ahmad | TwoCircles.net PATNA...

Assam’s two-child norm in draft policy ‘unnecessary’, ‘anti-women’

Kolkata, (IANS): Assam's suggestion of implementing a two-child policy is not only "unnecessary" but is also "anti-women" and "anti-poor", says an expert. "Assam's total fertility...

Meher Fatima talks about her book on 150 patriotic Indian Muslims

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, The book Celebrating India: Reflections on Eminent Indian Muslims (1857-2007) provides biographical profiles of 150 patriotic Indian Muslims, many of them unsung heroes – those who did not become party to the two-nation theory. Author Meher Fatima Hussain, Lecturer at Jamia Millia Islamia, talks to Mumtaz Alam Falahi of TwoCircles.net on her book. What inspired you to write this book?

Have you met this saree-clad bodyguard who is breaking stereotypes?

TCN News Veena Gupta is a bodyguard who is known for her unique style and is often called Dabang Singh. While she is breaking stereotypes,...

Muslims in/of India: surrogate oppressors or colonizers?

A Muslim woman deconstructs how dominant majoritarian narratives reconstruct Indian Muslim women as the perpetual Other. Misria Shaik Ali | TwoCircles.net  This is an article, an...

Dr. Rehana Sultana — The Iron Lady of Hyderabad

TCN series on Muslim women empowerment On International Women's Day on 8th March, TCN is bringing great stories of Muslim women empowerment from different states of India -- Editor

How Three Muslim Women of Northeast Delhi Were Caught In A Legal And Financial...

By Arbab Ali, TwoCircles.net On her wedding day, Tabassum was issued an arrest warrant for missing a court hearing. The previous day, November 10, 2022,...

Petition filed before Bombay HC to arrest Marathi daily’s chief editor for article defaming...

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: An activist has approached the Bombay High Court urging it to order for arrest of Chief Editor of Maharashtra Times...

Hyderabad commemorates 2nd anniversary of Shaheen Bagh protests with songs, poetry recitals 

Scores of people in Hyderabad, comprising of activists, students, NGOs, youth groups came together at Lamakan – a place in Hyderabad dedicated to the...

Meet the Tribal Girls From Jammu & Kashmir Who Cracked Neet

Tauseef Ahmad | Two Circles.net Several girls from the Bakarwal community, a nomadic ethnic minority in India's Jammu and Kashmir area, recently cleared the National...

​Row over women’s football match cancellation in West Bengal

Fatwa, HS exams and Urs of Pir reasons behind cancellation By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net, Kolkata/Malda: A women’s football match organised by a local club in Malda district was stopped after objections by the villagers allegedly after a local Imam passed strictures, prompting the Kolkata media to go overboard writing about the controversy. But an investigation by TwoCircles.net has revealed, apart from the Imam’s comments, higher secondary examination and an Urs of the Pir at Chandipur village were also equally the reasons, unlike the hype about it.

सवाल : एकमात्र मुस्लिम आदिवासी समुदाय वन गुर्जरो की परवाह किसे है !

<अहमद क़ासिम Twocircles.net के लिए उत्तराखंड के पौड़ी गढ़वाल ज़िले में रेवासन नदी के किनारे बसे इस गाँव का नाम नत्थू चोड़ है. घने...

‘Left, farmers’ movement ignore distinction between peasants, labourers

Interview with Gita Ramaswamy, author of “Land, Guns, Caste, Woman—The Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary” Aatika S | TwoCircles.net In this interview, the author talks...

Widowed in Muzaffarnagar riots, 50-year-old Nimmi has given up on getting justice

By Aas Mohammad Kaif, TwoCircles.net Nimmi lives in Muzaffarnagar’s Kidwai Nagar locality. Her real name could very well be Naeema, but she never went to...

In Pictures: Evicted thrice in 5 years, displaced women in Assam village decry poor...

Since the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in Assam in 2016, several poor families in Dholpur char have been evicted thrice— the...

Maiden session of B.Ed. at Ajmal Women College inaugurated

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: The maiden session of Bachelor of Education section of Maryam Ajmal Women College of Science and Technology was inaugurated at Hojai in Assam’s Nagaon district on Monday with the presence of several dignitaries.

Muslim social entrepreneurs infuse fresh vigour in Nagpur’s community development agenda

By Moin Qazi for TwoCircles.net Nagpur: A new wave of Muslim social entrepreneurs have embarked on path-breaking initiatives in the city with a potential...

Kish Island – a temporary timeout for Iranian women

By Farshid Motahari, DPA, Kish Island (Iran) : While women in the Iranian capital Tehran are meticulously checked by vice squads for any lapse in the Islamic dress code, those holidaying on Kish Island in the country's south have a temporary timeout in this regard. "It is such a pleasure to have the scarf so loose on your head and enjoy the sun and wind on your hair. Although only temporary but still it is such a nice timeout for us," said 24-year-old Salomeh who together with her friends, is spending some days on the Gulf island.

Asma Saleem awarded Sahitya Akademi’s award for translation

By TCN News Panaji, Goa: Prominent scholar and litterateur Mrs. Asma Saleem was awarded Sahitya Akademi’s award for her Urdu translated book Safar at a ceremony in Panaji on August 20. The Sahitya Akademi translation awards presentation ceremony was held at the Kala Academy’s Dinanath Mangeshkar hall. The welcome speech was delivered by the secretary of Sahitya Akademi, Mr Agrahar Krishnamurti. The president of Sahitya Akademi, Mr Sunil Gangopadhyay presided over the function.

कानपुर : सपना ने कहा हिन्दू संगठनों ने दबाव देकर दर्ज कराया था नौशाद...

विशेष सवांददाता। Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के कानपुर में बीजेपी नेताओं द्वारा एक मुस्लिम युवक को धर्मांतरण के मामले में जबरन फंसाने का मामला सामने...

Bihar liquor ban: Boon or bane debate back into focus

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

‘Denial of BC community certificate to converted Muslims deprival of fundamental rights’: Madras HC

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Chennai: In an unprecedented judgement, Madras High Court has held that a Hindu backward class (BC) woman shall be considered...

Bihar: These Muslim women break taboo by learning Madhubani painting

A project for women to learn Madhubani painting saw mostly Muslim girls turning up to learn.  Sufi Parween | TwoCircles.net  MADHUBANI (BIHAR)—A bunch of Muslim girls...

A manifesto with a difference, one that covers all aspects of development: Dr Lubna...

TCN News Dr Lubna Sarwath, Contesting Candidate for Karwan Legislative Assembly, Telangana, Hyderabad, Socialist Party(India) has released the manifesto for her constituency which is a...

इमाम साहब से दाढ़ी कटवाने के लिए कहती थी बीवी, बात न मानने पर...

आकिल हुसैन।twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के अलीगढ़ में एक अजीबोगरीब मामला सामने आया है। एक पत्नी ने अपने मौलवी इमाम पति के खिलाफ दाढ़ी नहीं...

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net मुज़फ़्फ़रनगर : ‘तावली के प्राथमिक विद्यालय में बतौर शिक्षा-मित्र पढ़ा रही ज़ीनत चौधरी सिर्फ़ एक नाम नहीं हैं. बल्कि इस...

Jamia Professor receives RULA Award

By Manzar Imam Professor (Dr) Tasneem Fatma, scientist and former Head of the Department of Bio-Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), New Delhi has been honoured...

Thrown out of convocation ceremony attended by President, Kerala girl refuses gold medal

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter In an extremely controversial step, Rabeeha Abdurehim, a student from Kerala, was sent out of the hall in which President Ramnath...

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समी अहमद । Twocircles.net बिहार के पूर्वी जिले कटिहार के पस्तिया गांव में 25 मई को एक 16 वर्षीय मुस्लिम लड़की के मौत पर हंगामा...

Why does a group of women walk at midnight in Delhi?

Aatika S. |TwoCircles.net It's been seven years that the group- Women Walk at Midnight has been walking in various cities. For Mallika Taneja, the person...

Hamida Aapa ki yaaden

By Shaheer Khan for TwoCircles.net Eminent Urdu writer Hamida Salim passed away on Sunday, August 16th at the age of 93 at her house in...

Muslim women are still not taken seriously: Farida Khanam

By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net, Farida Khanam is Associate Professor at the Department of Islamic Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Daughter of the well-known Islamic scholar, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, she has translated more than sixty of her father’s books into English, besides being the author of several books on Islam. In this interview with Yoginder Sikand for TwoCircles.net, she reflects on issues related to Islam, Muslim women and patriarchy.

ट्रिपल तलाक़ : इस्लाम में क्या है?

तरन्नुम सिद्दीक़ी इस्लाम और इस्लामिक देशों में ‘तलाक़’ कभी कोई मसला नहीं रहा. सच तो यह है कि हमारे देश में मुसलमानों की शिक्षा की...

Professor Suraiya Husain passes away

By TCN Aligarh: Noted writer, renowned scholar and former Chairperson, Department of Urdu, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Professor Suraiya Husain passed away following a prolonged...

In Yogi’s UP, Muslim poll nominees face arrests, externment and criminal cases

Some of them say election officials cancelled their nomination on minor grounds, alleging bias against candidates with a vocal Muslim identity.  Zeyad Masroor | TwoCircles.net  UTTAR...

महिला दिवस पर विशेष : सलीम भाई बनकर चाय की दुकान चलाती है ‘बानो’ 

  सिमरा अंसारी। TwoCircles.net राजधानी दिल्ली में देश की एक नामी यूनिवर्सिटी के पास ही एक चाय की दुकान है। इस दुकान के बाहर चाय का...

Hundreds join in silent protest against NRC and Citizenship Amendment Bill, NRC in Hyderabad

By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Hundreds of citizens from various civil rights groups and organisations working for urban poor, domestic workers, religious minorities, women, homeless, farmers,...

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सिमरा अंसारी Two circles.net के लिए जब हम सभी बीते साल की सभी कठिनाइयों और दुखों को पीछे छोड़कर नए साल में...

टेलर नाज़िर से कपड़े सिलवाने आई थी सपना,भीड़ ने पीट डाला

स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के बरेली में मुस्लिम युवक और युवती पर भीड़ द्वारा हमला करने का मामला सामने आया हैं। बरेली के एक...

Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Smruti Divas in Sholapur

By Asma Khan for TwoCircles.net

AMU alumni band ‘ANTIM’ to release its composition of National Anthem on Republic Day

By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: A music band formed by the alumni of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has come...

महिलाओं की दुनिया का एक कड़वा सच

फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net महिला दिवस हर साल की तरह आया और चला गया. खानापूर्ति के लिए महिलाओं पर जमकर भाषणबाज़ी की गई और सशक्तिकरण...

Meet Saba Haider: An Indian-Muslim woman running for DuPage county board election in US

Saba is the only candidate of Indian origin among 19 elected members from the state of Illinois. She came to the United States in...

Indian woman jailed for financial fraud in Leicester

By IANS, Leicester : Indian origin woman Daksha Saujani, a tax official here, has been jailed for two years for siphoning off more than 116,000 pounds of the public's money into her family's bank accounts. The mother-of-three exploited her position of trust while managing a team at the Inland Revenue's family tax credit department. The crimes financed "a lifestyle she wasn't entitled to" and enabled her to send her youngest son to private school.

PFI encourages students with its “School Chalo” campaign

By TCN News Bangalore: Muslims students have high drop-out rates, to plug-in this major source of educational backwardness Popular Front of India (PFI) organizes an annual “School Chalo” programme in which students from the weaker sections are given scholarships. In Karnataka, programme was conducted in various localities on June 5th and 6th this year.

In Kashmir, women diagnosed with PCOS face trauma, infertility

The latest Indian National Family Health Survey (NFHS), published in December 2020,  found that at least 60% of Kashmiri married women report one or...

Everybody loves a bad fatwa

By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Everybody loves a bad fatwa. And why not? It fills column space for newpapers; It brings in viewers for Television channels; it plays into the image of Muslims as a backward community for communalists; and it gives activists a chance to reinforce their secular credentials. Never mind that this fatwa will not change the lives of millions of Muslims and text of the fatwa could be not what has been reported or maybe the said fatwa doesn't even exist.

पाठा का अमूल्य पानी : भौरा तेरा पानी ग़ज़ब करी जाए,गगरी न फूटै, खसम...

चित्रकूट से ज़ियाउल हक़ Twocircles.net के लिए जैसे जैसे गर्मियां बढ़ती है वैसे वैसे पाठा के जलश्रोत सूखने लगते हैं। आलम यूं हो जाता है...

बेटियों के सपनों को पंख दे रहा है मुर्शिदाबाद का एक मदरसा

सूफी परवीन। Twocircles.net मुर्शिदाबाद का एक मदरसा सिर्फ इसलिए चर्चा में है क्योंकि वहां दसवीं पास करने वाली छात्राओं को अब बाहर पढ़ने नही जाना...

Afsana Muhammad — the youngest Sarpanch of Gujarat

TCN series on Muslim women empowerment On International Women's Day on 8th March, TCN is bringing great stories of Muslim women empowerment from different states of India -- Editor

Ramadan 1439: Shaista Yacoob

By Poornima Marh, TwoCircles.net Shaista Yacoob, 43, is a writer, poet based in Bangalore. Born and brought up in Bangalore, she has been living in...

Here’s How Digital Platforms Proliferate Anti-Muslim Hate

A new study documents an exponential rise in hate on digital platforms in India since BJP came to power in 2014.  Snobar | TwoCircles.net   NEW...

4 reasons why there is no justification for bulldozer politics

Experts believe that demolishing houses of protestors is against the rule of law and deprives people of fundamental rights. Basil Islam | TwoCircles.net NEW DELHI — Following...

CBI to probe IIT-M student Fathima Latheef’s death

By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net The CBI will enquire the alleged institutional murder of IIT Madras student Fathima Latheef, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister...

“Nothing has been left our homes. Where will we go?” Patna’s Nat community face...

Scores of families belonging to the marginalized Nat community of Patna, Bihar were left homeless after a demolition drive carried out by the Patna...

Women activists denounce sexual violence, misogyny peddled by apps like Sulli Deals, Bulli Bai

Several speakers during an online protest held by the Women’s Department of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) pushed for the need for people from all...

Muslim women do not need the ‘support’ of BJP to raise their voice

By Khushboo Khan for TwoCircles.net The Supreme Court verdict over triple talaq, following a long battle in court, has been debated across the country with...

Woman allegedly burnt alive by in-laws in North Kashmir

By Auqib Javeed, TwoCircles.net Bandipora: Rehana Gulzar, a 33-year-old woman and a mother of three, was allegedly burnt alive by her in-laws in Ahm-e-Sharief, a...

…और मैंने नोखा को ‘डेल्टा’ के लिए लड़ते हुए देखा

दलित छात्रा डेल्टा मेघवाल की उनके कॉलेज परिसर में हुई विवादित मौत पर देश भर में चर्चा और चिंता है. कॉलेज-प्रशासन जहां इसे आत्महत्या...

Why Triple Talaq Bill aims at ‘Criminalising’ the Muslim community, not ensuring gender justice

By Badre Alam Khan for TwoCircles.net Since the BJP government came into power in 2014, it has initiated and purposed to make legislation on Muslim...

एक्सक्लुसिव : मुजफ्फरनगर से ही बिछड़े थे,मुजफ्फरनगर से ही जुड़ेंगे !

मस्जिद के दरवाजे किसानों के खोल देने से लेकर, मुस्लिम बहुल इलाकों में लंगर लगाने और राकेश टिकैत के अल्लाहू अकबर और हर -हर...

Hijab is my ornament: Mumbai corporator Afreen

TCN Special Series on Women of Inspiration By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net,

Ashalata Kamble: Redefining motherhood to include the voices of marginalised women

By Shiva Thorat, Twocircles.net How does one define motherhood? Is it not important to locate the position of scholars who have commented and written extensively...

Rape Raj: Shrouded in Shadow

By Shahnaz Islam, TwoCircles.net A frenzied attack or bouts of insanity; “rape is rape”! Every 30 minutes one rape is committed in India. A woman...

UPSC topper Ira Singhal motivates NE students

TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Ira Singhal, the first differently abled woman to top the civil services examination advised the young students to keep...

Curious case of Moinal Mollah: Both parents Indian, but declared foreigner

Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net Guwahati: Asma Khatun (25) has been struggling with life under extreme circumstances where she has very slim chance of...

यह बिल मुस्ल‍िम समाज के प्रति सरकार की नीयत का अक्स है

नासिरूद्दीन, TwoCircles.net के लिए पिछले दिनों हमारे मुल्क में यह माहौल बनाने की कोशि‍श की गई कि सभी मुसलमान महिलाएं तीन तलाक़ क़ानून के...

88 women have applied for Haj without ‘mehram’: Minister

New Delhi, (IANS): In less than a week after procedure for Haj 2018 started, 88 women have applied to go on the pilgrimage without a...

सरकार वाक़ई में महिलाओं के प्रति चिंतित है तो उनके बारे सोचे, जो पतियों...

नासिरूद्दीन, TwoCircles.net के लिए पिछले दिनों हमारे मुल्क में यह माहौल बनाने की कोशि‍श की गई कि सभी मुसलमान महिलाएं तीन तलाक़ क़ानून के...

Periods, women’s health and Ramadan

By Afshan Khan for TwoCircles.net Imagine that it is the first day of the holy month of Ramadan and you are fasting with full excitement...

Frequent tweeter Modi loses voice when it comes to rape of minority women: NYT

New York, April 17 (IANS) Sharply criticising Prime Minister Narendra's silence over rape cases in India, the New York Times in an editorial on Tuesday...

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021: Eradicating child marriage still doesn’t make the cut in...

According to a report by Young Lives Research to Policy Centre based on the National Family Health Survey 2015-16, West Bengal tops the list...

They only come for the poor: Tughlakabad residents who received demolition notices

The Archeological Survey of India (ASI) posted notices in over 1000 homes in Tughlakabad area of New Delhi earlier this month, causing consternation...

Lakhs attend Barelvi Ijtema in Mumbai

By TwoCircles.net staff writer Mumbai: Lakhs of men and women attend the 19th Annula International Sunni Ijtema organized by Sunni Dawate Islami in Mumbai’s Azad Maidan on Oct 30th to Nov. 1st. The first day of the three day event was reserved for women which saw about one lakh women from Mumbai and suburbs participate in the proceedings. The lectures on the first day was geared towards women- importance of acquiring Islamic knowledge; understand their responsibilities as a Muslim women, prepare themselves in accordance to the Islamic law for the creation of a moral society.

सवालों के प्रहार तले डेल्टा मेघवाल की मौत

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नोखा (राजस्थान) : राजस्थान के बीकानेर जिले के नोखा में स्थित ‘श्री जैन आदर्श कन्या शिक्षक-प्रशिक्षण महाविद्यालय’ के परिसर में हुई...

Inner Line Permit issue has Biharis in Manipur on the edge

By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Imphal, Manipur: Anil Kumar Gupta, 56, runs a tea stall in Imphal. Although his roots go back to...

Has RSS and its cohorts Talibanized Hinduism in India?

Taliban doesn’t necessarily need to be turban clad, swinging AK47, loitering around the streets of Kabul, aiming to kill those who don’t necessarily agree...

Indian woman in Oman kills children, attempts suicide

By IANS, Dubai : An Indian woman in Oman murdered her two children and then attempted suicide. She has been arrested. The woman, identified by her neighbours as Priya from Kerala, killed her two children Friday morning at her home in the Muttrah locality of the Omani capital of Muscat, the Khaleej Times newspaper said. She had reportedly informed the police and her friends and relatives in Oman and in India about her intentions before committing the crime. The two children, a boy and a girl, were students of Class 2 and kindergarten, respectively, at the Indian School in Muscat.

How and why to organize workers for a democratic and secular India

By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Cambridge, Massachusetts: Thousands of miles from Bihar, Kamayani Swami and Ashish Ranjan of Jan Jagaran Shakti Sangathan (JJSS) talked about their...

मां के बाद अब प्रोफेसर नबीला सादिक भी दुनिया छोड़ गई !

स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर। Twocircles.net दूसरों की मदद को सदैव तैयार रहने वाली जामिया मिल्लिया इस्लामिया की असिस्टेंट प्रोफेसर नबीला सादिक की मृत्यु से उनके छात्रों...

भोजपुरी फिल्मों की मशहूर अभिनेत्री सहर अफशा ने इस्लाम के लिए छोड़ी फ़िल्म इंडस्ट्री

स्टाफ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश में बेहद लोकप्रिय भोजपुरी फिल्मों की अभिनेत्री सहर अफशा ने अभिनय की दुनिया को खुद से जुदा कर करते हुए...

Understand the world from the eyes of a woman: Ayesha Khatun

By TCN News, Cambridge, Massachusetts: “Understand the world from the eyes of a woman” said Ayesha Khatun to an audience of over 60 people at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on June 25, 2014. In the hour-long talk Ayesha Khatun had her audience in rapt attention as she shared stories from the ground, cracked jokes, and talked about her struggles working for some of the most marginalized people in India.

Asma Nama: I Can Marry Four. What about you?

By Asma Anjum Khan, teaches English, talks a lot, read her at your own risk. [follow her:@asmaanjumkhan] # fourmarriages,#islam#the prophetmuhammadpbuh #widowremarriage#polygmay#khulaa#culture#monogamy# H.Aaishah RA Saturdays usually signal the end of a hectic week. A soothing sensation after doing time for the last six days begins to engulf me. After my talk, a sister comes and hugs, nothing unusual; but a continuous stream of tears, from her eyes was. Her visage with droplets smearing it appeared a bit white. My little talk about H.Aaishah RA and other Ummahatul Momineen had touched her, she said. When probed about the weepy act; her reply not just stunned but kept haunting me for the next few weeks.

Through scholarships, US-based IMRC helps thousands of poor students complete their studies

By Raqib Hameed Naik, Hyderabad: Sameena Tasleem, a resident of Bandlaguda, Moinabad in Hyderabad, had always dreamt of becoming a doctor....

In conversation with Makiko Kimura

By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,

Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan condemn arrest of rape survivor, youth activists

TCN News Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) of Rajasthan has strongly condemned the arrest of a young survivor of gang-rape and two Jan Jagran Shakti...

“Here to prove football isn’t a sport for elites,” Muslim girl-group Parcham breaking stereotypes...

By Aparajita Ghosh, TwoCircles.net  Mumbai: “We wanted to break the stereotype and bring girls together to interact,” said Sabah Khan, co-founder of Parcham. The organization...

Delhi riots: Survivors of anti-Muslim violence living with trauma, constant fear of death

Many survivors of anti-Muslim violence in Delhi that took place in February 2020 are today living with trauma and a deep sense of...

Sexual Harassment of female students in Jamia Milia opens a can of worms

TCN News Female students of Jamia Milia Islamia University have been protesting from February against the HoD of fine arts Professor Hafeez Ahamed for allegedly...

Girls education mandatory: Farangi Mahal fatwa

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter, Lucknow: In a fatwa issued on Monday the Darul Uloom Firangi Mahal of Lucknow has made it mandatory on all muslims to make efforts for providing education to girls. The fatwa came as a silver lining after a series of fatwas issued by Islamic seminary Darul Uloom, Deoband attracted much media attention reportedly painted as anti-women.

In Nanded, thousands participate in march for Muslim reservations

By TCN News Muslim Aarakshan Sangharsh Kruti Samiti, an umbrella organisation of various political and religious groups, organised a ‘Million March’ in Nanded on...

“Her New World” project launched by Shaheen Academy at Guwahati

TCN News: “Her New World”  a project for both rural and urban women of Assam was launched on 15th of October by Shaheen Academy. The...

Dulla Bhatti and communalization of history

By Japal Singh for TwoCircles.net Today is Lohri, a festival that is celebrated in Punjab with great gusto. Few days before, young boys go around...

Indian Americans protest Hijab ban, urge Karnataka court to lift ban

More than a hundred people in Houston, Texas, United States called on the Karnataka government to stop the discrimination against Muslim girl students who...

AMU nursing students light lamps for the spirit of nursing

By TCN News, Aligarh: The environment filled with an enlightening breeze when the nurses of the School of Nursing, JN Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) took oath at the Lamp Lighting & Oath taking Ceremony of the School.

‘We need more schools to realize our dreams’: Muslim girls from a village in...

The upgradation of a girls' school to a higher secondary institution in a village in the Murshidabad district of West Bengal has come...

Threats and hate campaign force writer Sharmila Seyyid from Sri Lanka to go in...

The writer-activist now lives in self-imposed exile in Chennai By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, Sri Lankan woman rights activists Sharmila Seyyid and her family are being harassed for years. Facing attacks in Sri Lanka, where she and her sister used to run a school, she now lives in exile in Chennai, in hiding. It is noteworthy here that Muslims as a minority in Sri Lanka has been facing ethnic violence for years – there was upsurge in 2014 – under Sinhalese Buddhist majority. Seyyid has been very vocal in her works against several conservative practices vis a vis women. She has already published two anthologies of poems and a novel Ummath that critiques rising conservatism in Sri Lanka, besides highlighting the everyday injustices that Tamil-speaking Muslims face there.

Muslim liberals’ problematic noises on Karnataka anti-hijab row

To discuss whether the hijab is essential or not, whether all Muslims wear the hijab or not, whether those who wear it do it...

5000 people from 40 villages in Maharashtra gather to demand justice for Dr. Payal...

By Imran Inamdar, Twocircles.net Jalgao (Maharashtra)  With the intention to send a strong message to the government authorities, as many as five thousand Adivasi activists including...

ये मेवात को जलाने की तीसरी कोशिश थी

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net, मैं तीसरी बार फिर से मेवात के तावड़ू क़स्बे में हूं. समाज को जला देने वाली दो घटनाओं की रिपोर्टिंग के...

डेल्टा मेघवाल को मिला न्याय, गुनाहगारों को उम्र कैद की सज़ा

आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net 2016 में राजस्थान के बीकानेर के नोखा में हुए बहुचर्चित डेल्टा मेघवाल हत्याकांड को लेकर बीकानेर की पोक्सो कोर्ट ने बड़ा...

Meet Saima Noor, a Wheelchair-Bound Woman Artist in a Kashmir Hospital

Ilhak Tantray and Mohsin Mushtaq | Two Circles Network There is a profound sense of melancholy in the dimly lit ward number six of Srinagar's...

The unapologetic Indian Muslim

By Sabiha Farhat These are tough times for Muslims in India. But now that I look back and shed my ‘liberal’ prejudices – Muslims were...

Jankidevi Bajaj award conferred on Shamshad Begum of Chhattisgarh

Mumbai, Jan 9 (IANS) The prestigious 25th IMC Ladies Wing Jankidevi Bajaj Puraskar 2017 was conferred on the renowned social worker from Chhattisgarh, Shamshad...

‘Order is discriminatory, hurtful’: Muslims react to Karnataka High Court upholding Hijab ban

Women students, activists fear the ban on the Hijab will now extend to educational institutions in the state where it was previously allowed.  Muhammad Raafi...

देवांगना,नताशा और आसिफ़ इकबाल रिहा, तेवर है बरक़रार

स्टाफ रिपोर्टर। Twocircles.net उत्तर-पूर्वी दिल्ली में फरवरी 2020 में हुए दंगा मामले में जवाहर लाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय की छात्रा देवांगना कलिता और नताशा नरवाल...

Muslim girls shine in Jharkhand Intermediate exams, Fauzia Maram is state topper

By Najiya O., TwoCircles.net, “Choose subjects of your interest, and you can be successful”, says Fauzia Maram, the first rank holder in the Intermediate (Arts) Examinations in Jharkhand. “Once interest is of high importance in choosing the way one wants to study. Choosing one’s way should not be dependent upon the immense pressure from family or teachers. Then only can one excel.”

NIA officials record Hadiya’s statement

Kottayam, (IANS): A team of investigators attached to the Kochi unit of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday recorded statements of 24-year-old Hadiya, a...

Rana Ayyub’s “Gujarat Files’ wins Citation of Excellence at Global Investigative Journalism Conference

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Johannesburg (SA): Journalist-turned-author Rana Ayyub received a Citation of Excellence in the 2017 edition of the Global Shining Light Award for...

संयुक्त राष्ट्र में उठा भारत में दलित महिलाओं के साथ बढ़ते उत्पीड़न का मामला

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नई दिल्ली : भारत में दलित महिलाओं पर बढ़ते उत्पीड़न व शोषण का मुद्दा अब अंतर्राष्ट्रीय प्लेटफॉर्मों पर भी उठने लगा...

Peace march in Hyderabad condemns communal hatred prevailing in country, calls for peace, unity

The march in the heart of Hyderabad began with every participant reading the preamble of the constitution of India and taking the pledge to...

Pehchan: Empowering marginalised women

By TCN News New Delhi: It was a celebration when a number of girls took the dias to address the press conference. It...

Dreams from Japan, in the bylanes of Okhla

By Iqra Raza for Twocircles.net New Delhi: The rickshaw wheels lazily on the bumpy road making me jump every now and then. Dragging on,...

कोचिंग के फीस के लिए नौकरी कर जुटाएं पैसे, अब जज बन गई बोकारो...

By आस मोहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net दिल्ली - हाल ही में बिहार पीसीएस जे के परिणाम में 22 मुस्लिम नोजवानों ने जज साहब होने का गौरव...

For many rural women in Bihar, Kheta embroidery work aims to boost livelihood

Kheta is said to be a 500-year-old quilting heirloom practised exclusively by Shershahabdi women. Today, Kheta embroidery work is getting popular among non-Shershahabdi people...

Painful story of a poor Muslim girl

By Najam Gilani, TwoCircles.net, It’s not a best kept secret that if any unfortunate incident takes place with the inhabitants of lower strata of our society, then it doesn't get that required attention by the guardians of civil society which it deserves.

मुसलमानों को पिछड़ेपन से उबारने की अदुभुत कोशिश थी फ़ातिमा शेख़ की मुहिम

आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net देश की पहली महिला शिक्षक फातिमा शेख की 191वीं जयंती देशभर में मनाईं गई। कोविड के चलते फातिमा शेख़ की जयंती पर कार्यक्रम...

J&K: CPW workers on the verge of committing suicide over delayed and meagre wages

Arjumand Shaheen, TwoCircles.net Srinagar J&K: While the world celebrated the International labourers' day on 1st May, the Contingent paid workers/Sweepers (CPWs) in the department of...

Self-defence training programme for girls in West Bengal madrasas

By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net Starting from July, the West Bengal Director of Madrasa Education will start a 45-day free of cost self-defence training programme...

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

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...

Muslim girl from Telangana wins gold medal at National Boxing Championship

By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Guwahati: Nikhat Zareen, a 19-year-old boxer from the Nizamabad District of Telangana brought more laurels to her state...

Surviving in the worst: The tale of widow Rohingya refugees living in Jammu

By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net, Jammu: Three weeks ago, Tahira Begum, 25 a Rohingya refugee along with her husband and two kids, was...

​Muslim girl tops Bihar Board’s Intermediate Arts Exams

Five amongst first 10 happens to be Muslim girls By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Patna: Marking a paradigm shift for the Muslim community, a Begusarai girl...

Rajya Sabha passes Triple Talaq Bill

TCN News Despite tough resistance from the opposition parties, the Triple Talaq Bill has been passed in the Rajya Sabha today, Tuesday with 99 members...

Shaheen Bagh activists call for diaspora action to support Indian Muslims against genocide

Activists in the panel stated the need for the global community to not only remember Shaheen Bagh but also to take action before...

Sakina fought polio and poverty to win Bronze in CWG

By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net, Kolkata/Basirhat: When Sakina Khatun (28), an Indian power lifter was participating in the women's lightweight (up to 61 kg) category in Power lifting at 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, besides the weight, the hope and aspirations of her family and village was also on her shoulders. And she did not disappoint them as she won the Bronze medal for the country.

Hijab controversy resurfaces in Mangalore

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Mangalore: Time and again, the Hijab row continues to haunt Muslim girls in educational institutions across Karnataka, but especially so in Mangalore. This time, a college management on the outskirts of the city at Valachil in Dakshina Kannada district has asked girls not to attend the classes wearing Hijab.

Suspecting them as terrorists, state run bus service driver-conductor force luggage search on burqa...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Kolkata/Asansole: After the October 2 Burdwan bomb blast, a section of the main stream media’s campaign against the Madrasas and Muslims in West Bengal are facing suspicion across the community. Muslims are being made the target of communal hate campaigns.

Why appointing more women Qazis is the need of the hour

By Sheikh Khurshid Alam for TwoCircles.net There is paucity of research on the possibility of the appointment of Muslim women to the office of...

मनोबल टूटा था, पर हिम्मत नहीं हारी…

नेहा रोज़ टोप्पो झारखंड : जब हौसला और विश्वास साथ हो तो कठिन परिस्थितियां भी आपको आगे बढ़ने से नहीं रोक सकती. इस बात को...

संडे स्पेशल : तो क्या भीम आर्मी सुप्रीमो चंद्रशेखर का सूरज अब डूब रहा...

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Kerala HC’s order that ‘husband’s consent not essential for divorce in Islam’ sparks debate

The court observed in the absence of any mechanism in the country to recognize the termination of marriage at the instance of the wife...

“We feel scarred & traumatized,” say Muslim women victims of ‘Sulli Deals’

As dozens of Muslim women in India found themselves victims of an online ‘fake auction’ in which their pictures were shared and circulated on...

Muslim women in India can become change agents through education

By Frank F. Islam Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently called for empowerment and education of Muslim women. One would have expected this message to receive...

Young woman with male sex organs operated upon at AMU’s medical college

By TwoCircles.net News Desk, New Delhi: The doctors at J N Medical College were left baffled when they found a 20-year-old woman possessing a male sex organ and testes instead of a uterus and ovaries. She was operated upon, testes were removed and a functional vaginal canal was created by a team of doctors led by Dr. Arshad Hafeez Khan, Chairman, Department of Plastic Surgery at the college.

पहले तो हमारी सोच का दायरा इतना छोटा नहीं था…

तरन्नुम सिद्दीक़ी, TwoCircles.net के लिए भारत के तमाम नागरिकों को भारतीय संविधान के तहत यह अधिकार हासिल है कि वो जिस धर्म को चाहे, उसके...
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