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Out of Reach: The Quiet Ways India’s Digital Push Leaves Rural Women Behind
Musheera Ashraf, Twocircles.net
Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh: India’s digital story is often told through numbers. Millions of UPI transactions every minute. Seamless online services. Government schemes linked to apps. But far away from this vision, in villages where phones are shared and passwords are guessed, women continue to stand at the margins of a world that has shifted faster than they...
Bihar’s Long Voting Lines Shadowed by the Migration Express
Sami Ahmad, TwoCircles.net
In Bihar the long queues seen outside polling booths on November 6 and 11 were matched only by the lines that soon formed at railway stations. As soon as voting ended thousands of people rushed to catch trains the cheapest and most familiar route out of the state. These were not regular commuters. They were migrant workers...
Twelve Years On Pink Autos Still Run Without Support in Ranchi
Midhat Samra, TwoCircles
Ranchi: Suman Devi watched me photograph the pink auto and said that people come here to click pictures because the bright colour fascinates them but few bother to understand the struggles of the women who drive them.
The pink auto scheme was launched in Jharkhand in 2013 after the Nirbhaya case to address women’s safety concerns. It aimed to...
Behind Closed Doors: Kashmiri Women Battle the Silent Burden of PCOS
Shah Khursheed, TwoCircles.net
Srinagar: Bareera, 24, a postgraduate student from Pulwama, remembers the first signs of something being wrong with unsettling clarity. In Class 11, while living in a girls’ hostel in Srinagar, her periods suddenly stopped. One month passed, then another. The silence of her body frightened her. She whispered her worry to her roommate, who tried to calm...
Why Nitish Kumar Still Seeks Muslim Votes: Ploy or Passion
Sami Ahmad, TwoCircles.net
Patna: Nitish Kumar, despite being a partner and facilitator of the BJP, still seeks Muslim votes in the upcoming Bihar Assembly election. His supporters argue that Nitish Kumar has managed to contain the BJP’s divisive policies, but many Muslims ask a pertinent question “Why did Nitish Kumar ditch us on the Waqf law?” referring to the Modi government’s...
Bihar Election 2025: For Muslims, the Question Is Representation or Survival?
By Sami Ahmad, TwoCircles.net
Patna: As Bihar heads toward the 2025 Assembly elections, the Muslim community, which makes up 17.7 percent of the state’s population, stands at a political crossroads. With 243 seats in the Assembly and two competing alliances, the opposition Grand Alliance (Mahagathbandhan) and the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Muslims face a familiar dilemma: how to balance the...