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How BJP got its biggest win ever?

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By Dr Shahnoor Rahman, India, being the largest democracy in the world, the identification and special care of the poor and deprived of the society -- mostly the Dalits and minorities by the government is the most important thing for social justice. This is the most important thing as well so that everyone can contribute towards the progress of the country.

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

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

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...

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.

A festival in Tamil Nadu to honour folk artists from marginalized communities

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The festival, titled “Veethi Virudhu Vizha (The Street Award Ceremony)” in its ninth year, has provided a platform for Dalit and other marginalized...

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...

दलित युवा फाड़ रहे हैं अपने घरों में लगे धार्मिक पोस्टर, 3 गिरफ़्तार

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net मंसूरपुर : दलितों मे असंतोष लगातार बढ़ता जा रहा है. भीम आर्मी के प्रभुत्व वाले क्षेत्र में एक अन्य संगठन...

Amid Covid-19 lockdown, Mushar children in Bihar collect rats to feed themselves, families as...

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With a population of 2.5 lakh, Mushar community in Bihar are considered Maha-Dalits (Dalits among Dalits) and discriminated against. Amid the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown...

No ‘Achhe Din’ for drought hit Maharashtra farmers even in Modi era

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By A. Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: Maharashtra farmers are continuing to commit suicide due to drought, unseasonal rains and hailstorm damaged crops in thousands of...

Village adopted by BJP MP Kaushal Kishore is a far cry from a ‘model...

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By Afroz Alam Sahil, Twocircles.net Auntgarhi Saura/Malihabad: The BJP, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have repeatedly said in their election campaigns that if BJP is...

दलित बहुल गांव के लोगों का झलका दर्द

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फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net बिहार के औरंगाबाद जिले में बसा नारायण खाप गाँव, जहां 4000 आबादी वाले गाँव में 1200 से भी अधिक दलित परिवार रह...

Rahul Gandhi continues protest at Hyderabad varsity

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Hyderabad: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday continued his protest along with the students who are on hunger strike at the University of...

Dalit-Muslim union creates a flutter in Maharashtra

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By Quaid Najmi Mumbai, March 28 (IANS) When Prakash Ambedkar filed his nomination papers from the Solapur and Akola Lok Sabha constituencies as a Vanchit...

Forward Press claims police confiscating copies

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By TCN News, New Delhi: FORWARD Press, a magazine devoted to dalit issues, has alleged that the Delhi police went on rampage and vandalism at its Nehru Place office on October 9 and allegedly detained four staff members.

Anil Kumar N S of Dalit Human Rights Movement passes away

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net Thiruvananthapuram: Anil Kumar N S, chairman of the Dalit Human Rights Movement (DHRM) and among the foremost activist who led the...

I have a dream for India …

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Martin Luther King Jr. famous "I have a Dream" speech reimagined in Indian context" By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net

Visually challenged Dalit labour rights activist jailed in Haryana, family alleges ‘torture’

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Shiv Kumar is a Dalit labour rights activist who is named in the same FIR as incarcerated activist Nodeep Kaur, but according to eyewitnesses,...

Maharashtra CM faces serious threats to life: Prakash Ambedkar

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Mumbai, Jan 10 (IANS) Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis faces serious threats to his life from certain pro-Hindutva elements, Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh President Prakash...

Campaigning in Mumbai: Nightmare for candidates

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By Quaid Najmi, Mumbai : From residential skyscrapers to the villas of the super-rich to the squalor of slums and starkness of pavement shacks, campaigning...

Nitish Kumar bats for reservation to Dalit Muslims

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By TCN News, Patna: Giving hope to the dalit Muslims and dalit Christians, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has advocated for increasing reservation quota...

Probe into ‘violation’ of court curbs on Uttar Pradesh park

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By IANS,

भीम आर्मी के आह्वान पर सहारनपुर के दलितों ने नहीं मनाया होली का त्योहार

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : सहारनपुर में इस बार दलितों ने होली नहीं मनाई. इसके लिए भीम आर्मी ने मुहिम चलाया था. इस...

Maha dalit killings: Film industry faces to join demonstration in Mumbai

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: Social activists, common citizens and even some faces from the film industry are likely to participate in a demonstration march on Saturday in Mumbai to show solidarity with three dalit victims from Ahmednagar district.

The BJP won in UP. Can we please get rid of the facade called...

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By Mushtaque Rahamat for Twocircles.net The elevation of Yogi Adityanath to be the next Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh has finally obliterated the oft-repeated differentiation...

ज़बान काटी थी, गैंगरेप किया था, 10 दिन बाद नही रही हाथरस की ‘गुड़िया’

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर । Twocircles.net 14 सितंबर को उत्तर प्रदेश के हाथरस में जिस दलित लड़की की गैंगरेप के बाद ज़बान काट दी गई थी। आज उस लड़की की...

A Portrait of the Indian as a Young Dalit Girl: Part 3 – Meeting...

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(Editor’s note: This was first published on Yahoo.com as a single piece. We are reproducing the long form report in parts for TwoCircles.net readers.) You...

DU professor on why legislation is needed to prevent caste discrimination in higher educational...

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Professor N. Sukumar's new book studies the exclusion and discrimination against Scheduled Caste (SC) students in the Indian higher education system and the...

Varun Gandhi for abolishing death penalty, BJP says personal view

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New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party MP Varun Gandhi on Saturday came out against the death penalty, noting most of the death row convicts are...

Bihar shutdown disrupts rail, road traffic

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Patna : A shutdown in Bihar Tuesday to protest the arrest of three men for the alleged gang rape of six Mahadalit women has...

Tribals are soft targets for police and rebels: Sociologist Nandini Sundar

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By Abu Zafar, IANS,

‘Women, society, politics dominate South Asian literature’

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By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS,

Why BAPSA’s support to Muslim Right is problematic: Part One

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This is a first in a three-part series on how Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students Organisation (BAPSA) has, while effectively countering Savarna politics espoused...

Bihar’s Healthcare Crisis: Dalit Woman Struggles for Kidney Transplant After Tragic Surgery

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MI Khan, TwoCircles.net Patna: There appears to be no hope for justice for Sunita Devi, a Dalit woman from Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district, who allegedly had both...

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...

Congress attacks Modi government

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By IANS, Gandhinagar: Senior Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil Monday criticised the Gujarat government for its failure to harness the waters of the river Narmada to tackle the water scarcity facing the state. Gohil, Leader of Opposition, said the state was reeling under acute water scarcity while the irony of the situation was that huge amount of the Narmada river water was flowing into the sea due to the "inability of the government to harness it".

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.

Kerala education minister orders probe in Dalit student’s ragging case in Kerala

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By TwoCirlces.net Staff Reporter Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Education Minister has intervened in the incident, where a Dalit student was ragged so bad that his kidneys were...

पातालकोट : जहां ज़मीन के अन्दर से पनपता है भारत का भविष्य

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जावेद अनीस छिंदवाड़ा जिले के तामिया ब्लॉक में स्थित पातालकोट मानो धरती के गर्भ में समाया है. तकरीबन 89 वर्ग किलोमीटर क्षेत्र में फैली यह...

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...

NCERT advisor’s office ransacked over cartoon

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By IANS,

Bihar liquor ban: Boon or bane debate back into focus

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

Will Modi make it as the first low caste PM?

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By Saeed Naqvi, IANS, Should Narendra Modi actually be crowned the prime minister in May, the post-Mandal social justice political platform will finally have prevailed...

The need to implement Dalit Bahujan ideas of social justice

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By Badre Alam and Sanjay Kumar for Twocircles.net The tragic death of Rohith Vemula at Hyderabad Central University (HCU) has created a strong public...

Muslims and Dalits to hold joint protest against demolition of Guru Ravidas temple

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TCN News Representatives from the Muslim community have lent their support to the Dalit Community in their demand to re-build the Guru Ravidas temple at...

दलितों की लड़ाई के अहम योद्धा मंगनाराम मेघवाल

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नोखा (राजस्थान)- इस शहर का एक गुमनाम लड़का जब यह बोलता है कि ‘मुझ जैसे गरीब के पास खोने के लिए...

AIDWA condemns Dalit youth’s murder in Maharashtra

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New Delhi: The All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) Thursday condemned the murder of a Dalit youth in Maharashtra in the name of honour...

BJP leader’s remark on Mayawati shameful: Kejriwal

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New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday condemned BJP leader Dayashankar Singh's abusive remark against Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati and...

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...

Dalit riot victims attack Hisar district official in Delhi

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By IANS, New Delhi : A protest by Dalit (Balmiki) families who fled from Mirchpur village in Haryana's Hisar district turned ugly as the district's Deputy Commissioner Yudhvir Singh was attacked and manhandled by angry protesters here Wednesday. "The deputy commissioner of Hisar district came to meet the protesters to convey the instructions given to him by the Supreme Court. He was attacked by the angry families as they did not want to move back," an eyewitness said at Mandir Marg where the Mirchpur families have taken refuge for the past two weeks.

“We are united to fight fascism”, CPI (ML) candidate Sandeep Saurav aims to bring...

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By Chinki Sinha, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: There was a poem by Punjabi communist poet Pash he stumbled upon in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) during his...

Shazia Khan: An entrepreneur trying to mentor Muslim women find their feet

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net For Shazia Khan, the path to success has never been a straight one: as a Muslim girl growing up in...

‘English Vinglish’ encourages Dalit girls in Bihar

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By Subhash K. Jha, IANS,

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

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

Attack on Sarath has hidden agenda of breaking Dalit – Muslim unity

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By Kaneez Fathima, Ethnic cultures and their manifestations in the public sphere has become target for authoritarianism. BJP government under the leadership of Narendra Modi has been trying to efface the multiculturalism and secularism from the society. Fascist authoritarianism never tolerates the democratic and secular nature of the people’s constitution.

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,...

‘दलित चेतना’ आंदोलन को अब उत्तर प्रदेश लेकर जाएंगे जिग्नेश मेवाणी

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net दिल्ली: गुजरात के उना कांड की चिंगारियां अभी भी सुलग रही हैं. उना में दलितों को इंसाफ़ दिलाने की लड़ाई...

Why atrocities on Dalits, minorities, farmers: Mevani asks Modi

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New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) Gujarat Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani on Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking why atrocities were being committed against...

Multi-crore SC scholarships racket unearthed in Uttar Pradesh

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By Sharat Pradhan, IANS, Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has unearthed a multi-crore racket in disbursement of scholarships to Scheduled Caste students in educational institutions in the state. The racket involves hundreds of engineering, medical, dental and management colleges that have mushroomed over the past few years in several parts of the state.

Gita: Not a Religious book?

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By Ram Puniyani

After Moradabad, 180 Dalit families of Saharanpur to convert to Buddhism if atrocities do...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter After 50 Dalit families from Moradabad converted to Islam last week citing Yogi Government's total negligence and upper caste violence against...

Dalits beaten up by ABVP activists for holding beef festival

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By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,

Arundhati revisits Ambedkar-Gandhi debate on caste

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Celebrated author of ‘God of Small Things’ call Mahtama a ‘Reeactionary’ and regards him as not only castist but also racist. By Lalita, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: In an attempt to revisit the Ambedkar-Gandhi debate over caste hierarchy, celebrated author of ‘God of Small Things’ and Essayist Arundhati Roy spoke on “vicious sort of apartheid that functions in our society”, namely caste system.

उन्नाव में दो दलित लड़कियों की संदिग्ध हालत में मृत्यु, एक गंभीर

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जिब्रानउद्दीन।Twocircles.net उत्तरप्रदेश के उन्नाव से एक बार फिर दिल दहला देने वाली खबर आ रही है, जहां अपने ही खेत मे संदिग्ध हालत मे बंधी...

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.

Tamil Nadu police firing: Toll rises to six

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By IANS,

Mayawati vs Ram Vilas Paswan: A ding-dong battle for Dalit politics

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By Soroor Ahmed, TwoCircles.net, The decimation of Mayawati-led hitherto strong Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh and the revival of the virtually defunct Dalit outfit of Bihar, Lok Janshakti Party, deserve an objective study. The former failed to open its account notwithstanding the fact that it managed to get about one-fifth votes of UP while fighting alone, whereas in Bihar the LJP won six seats when it got just 6.4 per cent votes. The only difference is that it contested in alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Rahul’s special gesture for grassroot leaders

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By IANS,

Opportunity for Muslims to stop injustice by Hindu majority Indian State.

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Ref: - Muslims to come in main stream in the interest of SAARC also.

Dear Sir

Despite constitutional-legal protections, Muslim community for no apparent reason has been behaving so meekly & submissively in Independent India as if they do not have any constitutional-legal / political rights in India.

Without going into much detail, the following two major instances should be enough to support this view:-

Parched summer again for Bihar Mountain Man’s village

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By Imran Khan, Dashrath Nagar (Bihar) : Bhagirath Manjhi and his neighbor Ramesh Manjhi are struggling to get drinking water for themselves and their families...

Family members of Bhima Koregaon accused, cyber experts raise questions on investigation following reports...

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Besides demanding the release of all the accused, the speakers pointed out that the Arsenal report has raised some serious questions such as, “Why...

No bail for activists arrested in Bhima Koregaon arrests even after a year; campaign...

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TCN News Last year on 6th June, the Pune police had arrested 5 activists on false charges of inciting violence on Dalits that took place on...

Memorandum to the Governor of Gujarat on Present law and order situation

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To, Sri Naval Kishore Sharma The Honorable Governor of Gujarat Gandhinagar. Sir, The Socialist Unity Centre of India, Gujarat State organizing Committee would like to draw your attention to some of the very vital problems of Gujarat haunting the state and taking a very ugly turn in an alarming scale. The Soharabuddin encounter case

Upgrade Mayawati’s security, BSP tells Akhilesh

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By IANS,

Odisha’s SC/ST MLAs plead with CM on reservation

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Bhubaneswar : The Odisha assembly on Friday witnessed an unusual scene when opposition MLAs belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Tribes fell at Chief...

Boston event links Black Liberation and Palestinian movements with the Anti-Caste Struggle

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By Paul Malachi, TwoCircles.net The #DalitWomenFight United States tour reached Boston on Saturday, September 19th, 2015 with a panel titled “Dalit Women Fight – Moving...

“Anti-nationals” of the world unite: Umar Khalid back in JNU campus

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By TCN News, New Delhi: The JNU campus was enlighten on Sunday night when Umar Khalid, an accused of raising anti-national slogans, returned to the...

Two Dalit girls’ rape and murder in Badaun draws international flak

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By A. Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: The alleged gang rape and murder of two dalit girls on 27 May 2014 in the Katra village of Budaun district, Uttar Pradesh has been condemned largely throughout the country by every section of the society. The condemnation did not stop within the borders of the country but international organizations have also expressed their dissatisfaction towards lack of adequate sanitation facilities and growing sexual violence of women resulting into the violations of human rights in India. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appalled by the brutal rape and killing of two dalit girls in UP whereas Amnesty International has criticized the police machinery of India who have time and again found to have derelict towards registering and investigating cases of rapes of low caste girls and their lackadaisical behavior in booking higher caste culprits in those cases.

50 Dalit families accept Islam in UP after series of attacks by upper caste...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Moradabad: About 50 Dalit families from Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh have decided to convert to Islam after the recent spate...

Civility against Caste: Dalit Politics and Citizenship in Western India

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Title: Civility against Caste: Dalit Politics and Citizenship in Western India Author: Prof. Suryakant Waghmore Publisher: Sage India Year: January, 2014 Review by: Yogesh Maitreya for TwoCircles.net, Civility is the least discussed discourse in India. In post-constitutional Indian society, the idea of civility has formed a binary: on one hand, ‘civil society’ that has been propagated by media and resources which are dominated and owned by Brahmin-Bania associations and on the other hand, the civility which has been practice by NGOs and political organisations led by Dalits. The latter had started with the core motive of annihilation of caste and, found its genesis in the struggles of Mahatma Fule and Dr. B.R.Ambedkar in Maharashtra. The idea of civility, practiced by Dalit NGOs and political groups, is contrary to the idea of civility which Brahmin-Bania possess and propagate in India, simply because idea of civility practiced by Dalits aims at annihilation of caste; precisely, Dalit civility is the ‘Civility against Caste’.

JNU and Quest for a Just World

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What JNU and Kanhaiya have done is hold a mirror to the great democracy that seems to have lost its way Aijaz...

BJP MLA calls Mayawati an eunuch, sparks anger and protest from trans community

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By Nikhat Fatima, Twocircles.net Sadhna Singh, the BJP MLA from Mughalsarai, Uttar Pradesh while addressing a gathering in Chandauli, hurled insults at BSP Supremo Mayawati...

Congress, JD-U, Left to bring privilege motions against Irani

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New Delhi : Seeking to put the Narendra Modi government on the defensive, the Congress and JD-U said on Saturday that they will bring...

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...

Court sentences death to Ameerul Islam for rape and murder of Kerala law student

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Kochi (Kerala), (IANS): A sessions court in Kerala on Thursday sentenced to death Ameerul Islam, a migrant labourer from Assam, who on Tuesday was...

SC status demanded by Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims

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Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Thousands of Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims organized a protest rally and a dharna at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi on 21st July, 2010 and demanded Scheduled Caste status to Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims. Several representatives from Dalit groups and politicians including Sam Paul, National Secretary Public Affair of All India Christian Council, Ali Anwar, an MP and president of All India Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz and Hafiz Ahmad Hawari, president All India Jamiatul Hawwarin, among others addressed the peaceful rally.

CPI-M condemns police firing on Dalits

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New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) The CPI-M on Monday denounced the police firing on Dalit activists protesting against the Supreme Court's decision to dilute the...

Jitan Ram Manjhi sworn-in as Bihar’s new CM

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Patna: Jitan Ram Manjhi, a 68-year-old Mahadalit leader, was Tuesday sworn-in as the 23rd chief minister of Bihar. Manjhi along with 17 ministers took oath...

Tension in Hyderabad varsity over Dalit research scholar’s suicide

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Hyderabad: Tension prevailed in University of Hyderabad on Monday over the suicide of one of the five Dalit research scholars following their expulsion from...

Budget related dharna and rally of 29th February, 2008

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submitted by Satinath Choudhary, Delhi We started gathering in the morning about 11 am and around three O’clock in the afternoon, we marched towards the Parliament, led by our own Parliamentarian Hon’ble Athavale Sahab, as far as the police let us go. We then had some speeches and concluded the rally by burning a replica of the new budget! The following memorandum of demands was submitted to the Prime Minister and Finance Minister: SC/ST Budget Hissedari Andolan (Movement for SC/ST Share in Budget) c/o 36/12, 1st Floor, East Patel Nagar, New Delhi -110 008 To

आगरा संजली काण्ड: लोगो में गुस्सा, न्याय की मांग

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net बीते मंगलवार को आगरा जनपद के ललाऊ गाँव की रहने वाली दसवीं में पढ़ने वाली 16 साल संजली दलित छात्रा जब...

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

40% of UP voters undecided, finds poll

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By Shreya Shah Elections for the Uttar Pradesh state assembly, Indias largest state -- 138 million voters -- start on February 11, but 40 PER...

Under pressure to retract statement, says Pakistani Hindu scribe

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By Aadil Mir New Delhi/Karachi : A Dalit Hindu reporter working with Pakistan's state-run news agency says he has slipped into depression after facing discrimination...

Overdue SC/ST Amendment bill passed after avoidable one year delay

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: A full one year after its introduction, the long overdue amendments to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes...

‘Manual scavenging-free India’ still a distant dream

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Is the government really serious about rehabilitation of manual scavengers? By Nivedita Khandekar, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: It is centuries old, most inhuman of the...

Day after Dalit student’s suicide, students’ group points fingers at IIT Bombay

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Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle Bombay called the incident an institutional issue, saying students from oppressed castes (SC/ST) and low-income families face immense...

Gujarat CM Anandiben finally offers to quit

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Ahmedabad : Ending months of speculation, Gujarat's first woman Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on Monday offered to quit in keeping with the BJP's...

Temples Shine, Lives Shatter – How Modi’s ‘New Kashi’ Is Erasing Its People

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Aradhana Pandey, TwoCircles.net Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh): The ghats of Varanasi may shine brighter these days, but behind them, in the narrow lanes that once cradled...

Sanitation workers at Delhi’s all-women university allege caste discrimination

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On February 12, scores of sanitation workers under the banner of SKU started a protest demonstration against the IGDTUW authorities for transferring two...

राजस्थान का नागौर जिला दलितों की कब्रगाह बनता जा रहा है

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By भंवर मेघवंशी, राजस्थान के नागौर में हुए दलितों के जनसंहार पर भंवर मेघवंशी की यह रिपोर्ट इस मुल्क का चेहरा है, जो रोज ब रोज दलित-मुस्लिम-आदिवासी बस्तियों में देखने को मिलता है. भंवर राजस्थान में दलित, आदिवासी और घुमन्तु समुदाय के लिए संघर्षरत है. प्रतिरोध से साभार.

“Dalits are not definitely a block, and there is an intellectual blossom,” Kancha Ilaiah

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By Ajmal Khan and Anish for TwoCircles.net, Professor Kancha Ilaiah had well predicted that Narendra Modi would become the next Prime Minister under BJP, and he has also been instrumental in raising criticism on how Indian Left failed to understand the caste question. After the parliament elections, he described how the caste equations has been used in the country by the BJP. As soon as the BJP came into power, many decisions have already been taken by the ruling government, which will have far reaching consequences on the lives of dalits, adivasis, Muslims and Bahujans. In this context, Ajmal Khan and Anish engaged in conversation with Kancha Ilaiah, writer, a dalit rights activist and former Professor and head of the Political Science department at the Osmania University, Hyderabad, on contemporary politics in India, particularly on Muslim, Dalit and Bahujan politics. He argues, that Muslims will have to form their own national party or a national coalition of all the Muslim parties by retaining their political and social identity.

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

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

छत्तीसगढ़ में पादरी के साथ मारपीट,बजरंग दल पर आरोप

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आकिल हुसैन।twocircles.net छत्तीसगढ़ में एक थाने के अंदर हिंदूवादी संगठन के लोगों द्वारा पादरी से मारपीट का मामला सामने आया हैं। हिंदूवादी सगठन के...

Challenges in Implementation of National Food Security Act discussed

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By TCN News New Delhi: The Institute of Objective Studies (IOS) in association with FIAN India and The Child Trust organised a consultation on “National...

Mumbai police must learn from New York police

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Submitted by Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai

Changing pattern of struggle against land acquisition in India

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By Soroor Ahmed, TwoCircles.net, Until the tribes and other weaker sections of the remote, and mineral-rich rough terrains of east-central India were getting displaced from...

Marathi movie Khwada projects the rebel against upper-caste hegemony

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net After Fandry, the Marathi movie Khwada, released on Oct 22, 2015, does a brilliant job of depicting lower castes’ struggle...

Indian American civil rights groups protest UP state coverup of Hathras rape incident

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TCN News Over 10 leading Indian American civil rights groups dedicated to safeguarding India’s democratic and secular values, held a protest at Dallas Municipal Court...

Maharashtra orders probe into attack on Dalit woman

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By IANS,

Arson attack on Dalits in Faridabad sees two children dead, parents critical

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Faridabad: Two children were burnt alive while their parents were reported to be critical when the house of a Dalit family in Haryana's Faridabad...

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...

15 leaders from different parties join BJP

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New Delhi : A total of 15 leaders from different political parties, including the Congress and the AAP, Tuesday joined the BJP here expressing...

Panel wants SC status for Chain community across Bengal

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Kolkata : With the West Bengal government erroneously according Scheduled Caste status to the 'Chain' community only in four districts, the National Commission for...

17-party alliance in Maharashtra to take on Cong and BJP

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By TwoCircles.net staff reporter Mumbai: Seventeen political parties of Maharashtra have recently announced that they have formed ‘Force One’ to contest upcoming Loksabha and state...

How Dalit music in Punjab transformed from a religious to a political soundtrack

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By Manisha Bhalla, TwoCircles.net The elephant of BSP has arrived, The one that will be a companion to all, To end poverty and slavery, This time...

Indian Muslims! Wake up and unite or you will be eaten up by wolves

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, There is a famous story that many might have already heard. It is an excellent parable for the Indian Muslims...

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.

TCN Interview: “My purpose as a filmmaker is to bring stories of marginalised into...

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In this interview with TwoCircles.net, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Somnath Waghmare talks about the production of films and the social landscape that constitutes film-making...

BJP a party of greedy people, not Hindus, says Kejriwal

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New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday hit out at the BJP, saying it claims to be a party of the...

Rohith Vemula’s brother to get job: Delhi government

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New Delhi : The Delhi government said on Wednesday it would give a job to the brother of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula of...

BJP government promotes Indian culture, traditions: Amit Shah

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Ujjain : BJP president Amit Shah, who took a holy dip in the Shipra river on Wednesday as part of programmes during the ongoing...

Dalit killings: Haryana orders CBI probe, Rahul slams Khattar

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Faridabad/Chandigarh : The Haryana government on Wednesday ordered a CBI probe into the arson attack by upper castes in Faridabad district that left two...

मेरठ में आरएसएस समागम को लेकर फिर विवाद, तिरंगे को लेकर उठा सवाल

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Aas Muhammad Kaif, TwoCircles.net Meerut: A controversy over the insult of Maharishi Valmiki and Sant Ravidas in the hoarding of RSS in Meerut was not...

Vemula’s friends, academicians back Jadavpur University against ABVP

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Kolkata : Friends of Rohith Vemula, the Dalit scholar who committed suicide in Hyderabad, as also some academicians on Sunday backed the Jadavpur University...

Kerala forests suspected to shelter Maoists: Police

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By IANS, Alappuzha: Police suspect the presence of Maoists in the forests across Kerala but is unsure of their activities, a top police officer said here Wednesday.

Jharkhand Dalit Minister was prevented from inaugurating Shravani Mela: JMM

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Ranchi : Main opposition party Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) has alleged that state Tourism Minister Amar Bawri, who belongs to the Dalit community, was...

दलितों की दर्दनाक व्यथा कथा है गुना और दरभंगा की घटना

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मध्यप्रदेश के गुना, बिहार के दरभंगा और उत्तर प्रदेश के मेरठ में यूं तो हजार मील का राऊंड बनता है। मगर दलितों की दशा...

सवर्णों को आरक्षण से नाराज है दलित

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ-Twocircles.net केंद्र सरकार द्वारा गरीब सवर्ण जातियों को 10 फीसद आरक्षण दिए जाने के बिल को मंजूरी मिलने के बाद सवर्ण जातियों में तो...

योगी सरकार की हाथरस में साज़िश की थ्योरी को भद्दा मजाक बता रहा है...

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लखनऊ से कौशल कुमार , Twocircles.net के लिए उत्तर प्रदेश सरकार ने हाथरस गैंगरेप कांड में जातीय और साम्प्रदायिक हिंसा भड़काने की साज़िश की बात कही है।...

ये चेहरे यूपी चुनाव में भाजपा के लिए मुसीबत का सबब बन सकते हैं

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सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश का विधानसभा चुनाव अब चंद महीने ही दूर बचा हुआ है. समाजवादी पार्टी को छोड़कर लगभग सभी दलों ने प्रदेश...

We are done with Godfather-like politics…the oppressed can speak for themselves: Rahul Sonpimple, BAPSA...

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Rahul Sonpimple, in one-on-one conversations, maintains eye contact at all times: although I interviewed him in near darkness at the...

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...

Protests for, against promotions quota across UP, Uttarakhand

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By IANS,

बुलंदशहर में घुड़चढ़ी के दौरान दलितों के साथ पिटाई के मामले में 5 के...

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जिब्रानउद्दीन।Twocircles.net आज आज़ादी के 74 सालों के बाद भी दलित उत्पीड़न की घटनाएं कम नहीं हो पाई हैं। नया मामला बुलंदशहर जनपद के नरसैना थाना...

WPI welcomes Apex Court guidelines on police encounters

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Welfare Party of India, in a statement, appreciated and hailed the apex court guidelines on deaths in police encounter for mandatory registration of FIRs and investigation by CID or any other independent agency.

‘रावण’ की रिहाई के लिए फिर उठा नीला सैलाब

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फहमीना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net भीम आर्मी संस्थापक चंद्रशेखर के खिलाफ रासुका की कार्रवाई के विरोध और उनकी रिहाई के लिए भीम आर्मी ने दिल्ली के संसद मार्ग...

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...

Jitan Ram Manjhi: A soft-spoken Mahadalit who was a shepherd (Profile)

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Patna : Jitan Ram Manjhi, the 70-year-old Mahadalit leader who quit as Bihar chief minister Friday nine months after assuming office in May 2014,...

In Maharashtra, Dalits rise to claim grazing land that was promised to them decades...

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net The question of land ownership for people who work and toil on it has been asked for over 50 years now...

दलित, आदिवासी और पिछड़ो के हज़ारों पद ख़ाली, संसदीय समिति ने मोदी सरकार...

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यूसुफ़ अंसारी, TwoCircles.net देश में 2014 में मोदी सरकार बनने के बाद से ही उस पर आरक्षण विरोधी होने आरोप लगते रहें हैं। लगातार कहा...

भारत के हिंदू राष्ट्र बनने में सबसे बड़ी बाधा डॉ. अम्बेडकर —अनिल चमड़िया

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TwoCircles.net News Desk बलिया : भाजपा डॉ. अम्बेडकर के विचारों की हत्या करने के लिए अभियान चला रही है. जिसमें दलित समाज से आने वाले...

Minus Pakistanis, the Kashmiris without leadership

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Ref: - Indifference to Dutch offer, the sign of Kashmiri atrophy. Dear Sir The present position of Kashmir problem is given below as it evolved through its history after 1947: - (1)- The Kashmiris, speaking same language and practicing same religion (predominantly Islam) cannot be expected to remain divided across LOC.