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

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By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,

‘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...

Upgrade Mayawati’s security, BSP tells Akhilesh

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By IANS,

Implement Ambedkar’s philosophy, says Hamid Ansari

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Raipur: Vice President M. Hamid Ansari on Saturday called for implementation of B.R. Ambedkar's three-point corrective - using constitutional methods of achieving social and...

Manjhi meets Modi, fuels speculation of tie-up with BJP

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New Delhi : Former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Thursday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, fuelling speculation of a tie-up between...

ये घटनाए बताती है कि उत्तर प्रदेश में पत्रकारों के लिए सब कुछ सही...

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हिना मंसूर ।Twocircles.net 13 जून- न्यूज़ वेबसाइट 'स्क्रॉल' की कार्यकारी संपादक सुप्रिया शर्मा ने लॉकडाऊन खत्म होने और अनलॉक के प्रारंभ होने के तुरंत बाद भारत के...

This education Centre in Mumbai named after Rohit Vemula offers education, training to underprivileged...

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By Aparajita Ghosh, TwoCircles.net Mumbai: A group of young students of Mumbai’s Phule Nagar have collectively started an education centre naming it after PhD scholar...

Government grants more funds to promote tribal, folk cultures

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By IANS,

Bhima-Koregaon: Maharashtra police raids Dalit activists who supported protest

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Mumbai, (IANS): The Maharashtra Police carried out multi-city raids on Tuesday against prominent Dalit activists and supporters in a fallout of the January 1...

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.

Provide job quota to Muslims, demands Samajwadi Party

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Samajwadi Party Monday urged the central government to bring a bill to provide reservation to Muslims in jobs, saying their condition was worse then that of the Dalits.

जानकारी : ये हैं भारत मे अब तक बने दलित मुख्यमंत्री

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आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net देश में एक बार फिर से दलित राजनीति गर्म हो गई हैं,उसकी वज़ह है पंजाब। कांग्रेस ने बड़ा फेरबदल करते पंजाब में...

क्या महज़ राजनीति का मुद्दा है डेल्टा मेघवाल?

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net राजस्थान के नोखा शहर में एक प्रतिभाशाली लड़की को तंत्र की अमानवीयता के चलते अपनी जान से हाथ धोना पड़ा. डेल्टा...

Empowering Wardha’s Dalits through e-commerce

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Sanghamitra Store is an online e-commerce platform run by five Dalit youth that showcases affordable handicrafts and art made by the community. Riya Talitha...

हाथरस कांड में अदालत का फैसला, संदीप दोषी, तीन बरी

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स्टाफ रिपोर्टर। Two circles.net उत्तर प्रदेश की राजनीति में भूचाल मचा देने वाले बहुचर्चित बुलगढी गांव वाले हाथरस कांड में आज फैसला आ गया है।...

An Insider’s look into Casteism and Privilege

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By Pragya Munshi, TwoCircles.net Most of us know that a truly horrible incident took place a few weeks ago in a small city in Aligarh,...

Brinda Karat demands probe in tribal girls’ deaths in Andhra Pradesh

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By IANS, New Delhi: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Brinda Karat Monday asked Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to order a probe into the deaths of four tribal girls given a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination by an NGO in Andhra Pradesh. In a letter to Azad, Karat said a programme of HPV vaccination was launched in several districts of Andhra Pradesh, exclusively among young, mainly tribal girls from the ages of 10-14 years by an NGO.

Dalits demand inclusion of Buddhists in SC Sub-Plan in Maharashtra

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net Mumbai: The ‘Dalit Adivasi Adhikar Andolan (DA3)’ has demanded from the National Commission for Scheduled Caste to direct Maharashtra government to...

SC moved seeking benefits of backward class quota to ‘most deserving sections’

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New Delhi : Haryana-based Kumhar Maha Sabha on Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking direction to the central government to undertake revision of the...

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...

NCDHR expresses alarm at NITI Aayog’s claims of not being able to monitor Schedule...

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By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter New Delhi: The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights has expressed disappointment at a recent news item which...

‘Quashing reservation in promotions goes against SCs, STs’

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By IANS

Maya govt. is anti-Dalit and anti-farmers: Dr. Udit Raj

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Dr. Udit Raj, president of the Indian Justice Party, said that the Maya Government is anti-Dalit and anti-farmers, and has gone upon fueling the privatisation in U.P. “Recently, the government sold four sugar mills, viz. Chandpur (Bijnor), Jarwal (Behraich), Shishwan Bazar and Amroha and three of them are making profits. The Chandpur Sugar Mills has been sold to a liquor baron who had amassed thousand of crores through manipulation of business activities in liquor, mines, mid- day meal, etc.” alleged Dr. Raj.

Govt. to give 27% of petrol pumps to OBCs

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By TCN News,

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...

15 in Bihar charged for boycotting Dalits

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By IANS, Patna : A case has been lodged against 15 people in Bihar on charges of socially boycotting dozens of Dalit families and causing them mental torture, police said Tuesday.

Yechury seeks Mukherjee’s intervention in Hyderabad varsity issue

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Hyderabad: CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday sought President Pranab Mukherjee's intervention in the University of Hyderabad issue, where a Dalit research scholar...

With Gandhi as guide, Gates goes to a Dalit village

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By IANS, Kande Rao ka Purwa (Uttar Pradesh), May 11 (IANS) After showing Bill Gates a glimpse of the development he had initiated in the social and the health sectors in the Amethi and Rae Bareli constituencies represented by him and his mother and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi took the Microsoft chief to experience life in a Dalit village in Pratapgarh district Tuesday evening.

Powerful feudalists with BJP support targeting Bihar’s Mahadalits’

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By Imran Khan , Patna: Mahadalits, the poorest of the socially marginalised in Bihar, have been targeted by powerful feudal forces which have the full...

JNU scholar complains about discrimination at campus

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New Delhi: A week after having threatened to commit suicide over not getting his research grant extended, a Jawaharlal Nehru University scholar on Wednesday...

बसपा का मिशन 2017

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फहमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net लखनऊ: उतर प्रदेश में अगले साल होने वाले विधानसभा चुनाव की तैयारियां अभी से पार्टियों ने शुरू कर दी है. एकतरफ जहां...

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...

एक साल बाद आज भी सहमा है शब्बीरपुर ,बदल गई है दलितो की जिंदगी

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : "पिछले साल 5 मई, हम सब लोग अपने खेतों में काम कर रहे थे औरत मर्द सब...इतनी भीड़ इस...

Dalit victims brought to Ahmedabad after health deteriorates

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Ahmedabad : The four Dalit youths thrashed by cow vigilantes near Gujarat's Una town on July 11 have been admitted to the Civil Hospital...

Reaching out to Bihar’s Mahadalits – by radio

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By Imran Khan, IANS,

Cholera cases rise in Orissa’s tribal heartland

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar: Cholera and other water-borne diseases that have claimed 39 lives since August have infected 355 more people in Orissa's Rayagada district, an official said Wednesday.

Azadi Kooch, a rally to mark one year of Una uprising, stopped in Mehsana,...

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By Payal for TwoCircles.net All Photos courtesy Nayan Jyoti A year ago, four Dalits were publicly beaten, stripped and humiliated by Gau Rakshaks in Una, Gujarat...

Abducted student found murdered in Guragaon

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Gurgaon : An 18-year-old student, who was abducted last weekend, was on Thursday found murdered, police said, adding she might have been sexually assaulted...

Sikhs protest over atrocities against minorities, Dalits

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By Arul Louis United Nations, (IANS): A group of Sikhs held a protest against atrocities against minorities and Dalits in India during B.R. Ambedkar's birth...

Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Smruti Divas in Sholapur

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By Asma Khan for TwoCircles.net

Notice to Tamil Nadu government over Dalits’ rights violations

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New Delhi : The NHRC Friday issued a notice to the Tamil Nadu government, demanding a report on the human rights violations of the...

Attacks on Dalits rise under Modi-Yogi: Left

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New Delhi, (IANS): Left parties on Monday blamed the "callous attitude" of the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh for the caste violence in...

30 years of SC/ST PoA Act: Lacks and loopholes

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By Sukanya Roy, TwoCircles.net Kolkata: On 5 November, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court ruled that insulting a Dalit or tribal person would not...

100 Gujarat Dalits embrace Buddhism

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Amreli (Gujarat), (IANS): At least 100 Dalits in Amreli district in Gujarat on Thursday embraced Buddhism in protest against government inaction over the death of...

Two drones seized in Patna rally, two held

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Patna : Two drones were seized while video recording a rally of the extremely backward classes here on Sunday and two people were detained...

Modi had better speak on Rohith’s suicide: Kejriwal

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New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to speak on the suicide of Dalit research scholar Rohith...

Post Lok Sabha polls, RSS expands in Uttar Pradesh

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By Mohit Dubey, Lucknow : Since Narendra Modi became the prime minister in May, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) has been merrily expanding its network...

Raj Thackeray may work for India’s transformation

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Ref:- Mumbai can be equated with USA regarding immigrants. Dear Sir

War on Constitution

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By Vidya Bhushan Rawat, TCN Those of us who witnessed what happened when the goons demolished Babari Masjid in 1992 and later assaulted journalists covering...

Make eligibility of pre and post-metric scholarship for minority students same as that for...

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Aurangabad (Maharashtra): The present eligibility criteria of scoring at least 50% marks in the previous year’s examination to claim pre-...

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...

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...

Translate words into action, Owaisi tells PM

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Hyderabad : AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi must show in action what he said in words on cow...

Punia files papers as Congress candidate for RS polls

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Lucknow : Congress leader and chairman of the Scheduled Castes Commission P.L. Punia Friday filed his nomination papers for the Nov 20 Rajya Sabha...

Three sentenced to life for gang rape of a Dalit woman in Maharashtra

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Solapur (Maharashtra): In a 12 year old case of a gang rape of Dalit woman from Solapur district of Maharashtra, the...

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...

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....

Madhya Pradesh to get more tribal schools

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By IANS, New Delhi: The central government has approved six new residential schools for tribals in Madhya Pradesh, officials said Thursday. According to officials from the tribal affairs ministry, the allocation for starting the Eklavya Adarsh Awasiya schools has been increased to Rs.12 crore from Rs.2.5 crore. Madhya Pradesh has the largest tribal population in India. The population of Scheduled Tribes in the state is 154.03 lakh -- 23.27 percent of the state's total population of 661.81 lakh. The allocation per student has also been raised.

“Dalit community needs business leadership,” Padma Shri Ravi Kumar Narra in exclusive chat with...

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Padma Shri Ravi Kumar Narra is an entrepreneur and social activist. He is the National President of the Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and...

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

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

Mahadalits unwilling to return to their homes

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Patna: Nearly 300 Mahadalit families who fled their village after being threatened by upper caste men refused to return to their homes Saturday despite...

Two more arrested in Una case, 24 now in custody

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Ahmedabad : The Gujarat Police on Friday arrested two more persons for flogging four Dalit youngsters in Una on July 11, taking the total...

Attack on marginalised students shows SFI is losing the plot in Kerala

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, Twocircles.net For the past year, campus politics in India has taken up a sizeable space in the media; but the focus has...

Searching for the ‘real anti-Indian’

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By Parayi for Twocircles.net Everything is well with the republic. ‘Nationalist’ gundas are beating up students and police is combing the hostels of...

Tibetans not utilizing India

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Ref: - It is beyond Dalai Lama alone. Dear Sir On October 17, 2007 President Bush personally presented the Dalai Lama with the US Congressional Gold Medal and called on China's leaders to open talks with the Dalai Lama, which China resented, as it complained, "Dalai Lama is seeking independence for Tibet". But in his remarks at this award ceremony, the Dalai Lama reiterated his desire for the Tibetan people to have meaningful autonomy within China, which should have reasonably allayed the fears of China.

डेल्टा मेघवाल के पक्ष में उतरी मुस्लिम महासभा

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नोखा (राजस्थान): डेल्टा मेघवाल की लड़ाई अब किसी एक वर्ग या जाति की लड़ाई नहीं रह गई है. यह इंसाफ़ की...

Sumeet Samos releases another awesome song ‘Desia Pila Area Khali’

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TCN News Sumeet Samos, the young rapper from the Dalit community in Orissa has released yet another song titled “Desia Pila Area Khali” wherein he...

Allocation for SC, ST, minorities gets boost in budget

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New Delhi, (IANS) : Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday that the government will give special importance to implementation of schemes for the...

Will Congress’ faith in dynastic politics save it in Dima Hasao?

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Haflong: Dima Hasao, the least populated district of Assam, goes to polls on April 4 and like most of the state,...

Shutdown in Telangana town over Dalit man’s killing

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Hyderabad, Sep 15 (IANS) A shutdown was imposed in Telangana's Miryalguda town on Saturday over the murder of a Dalit man in an apparent...

How Tamil Nadu government turned Thoothukudi into a living hell

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By Grace Banu for TwoCircles.net The people of Thoothukudi, who were asking for relief from cancers were given bullets as medicines. Common struggling people were...

Dalit women protest outside Hooda’s house in Delhi

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New Delhi : A large number of Dalit women from Haryana Sunday protested outside the residence of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, demanding the...

FORWARD editor defends controversial ‘Mahishasur’ as Bahujan rendition

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: Days after the police action against FORWARD Press following the complaint by saffron organisations regarding a painting of Goddess Durga published by the magazine, its consulting editor Pramod Ranjan has said the controversy possibly has roots in the Bahujan rendition of the narrative of a mythical character called Mahishashur.

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...

Kedarnath to Kanhaiya: Sedition law a tool to muffle the voice of dissent

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By Azim Hussain Mazumder, The arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar on sedition charges following the so called ‘Anti-national’ incident at Jawaharlal Nehru University sparked the debate...

Lost Her Husband to Manual Scavenging, Soni Singh’s Struggle for Survival

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Punam Masih, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: Soni Singh sits on the steps of a shop near Mehrauli Dargah with her two daughters, waiting for kind-hearted individuals...

ज़मानत के तुरंत बाद चन्द्रशेखर ‘रावण’ पर लगा रासुका

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter सहारनपुर : गुरुवार को भीम आर्मी के सुप्रीमो चन्द्रशेखर आज़ाद ‘रावण’ को इलाहाबाद हाईकोर्ट ने ज़मानत दी थी, इधर आज उन पर...

Tamil Nadu police firing: toll rises to seven; Jayalalithaa orders judicial probe

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By TCN News,

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

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

Banaras weavers to showcase their products at Dilli Haat

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By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

Beyond Homosexuality and AMU: Why ‘Aligarh’ is a must-watch movie

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By Mahtab Alam for Twocircles.net Last week, a day after Hansal Mehta’s latest film Aligarh was released for public viewing in theatres across the country...

Clash after Dalits stopped from praying at Haryana shrine

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By IANS,

Three Dalit youths found murdered in Uttar Pradesh

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By IANS,

Seven held guilty for lynching five Dalits in Haryana

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By IANS, Jhajjar (Haryana): A district court here Saturday held seven people guilty and acquitted 19 others in a case relating to the 2002 lynching of five Dalits in this Haryana district. The punishment for the convicts will be announced Monday. All the seven people held guilty were sent to judicial custody by Additional District and Sessions Judge A.K. Jain Saturday.

Close fight between BJP and Congress in Muzaffarpur, both sides claiming victory after May...

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By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, Muzaffarpur: In Muzaffarpur, where caste-sentiment is deeply rooted, both the BJP and Congress candidate (in alliance with the RJD) sounded “confident of victory” as it polled on May 7.

Dalit student attacked; OU students burned down portraits of Hindutva ideologues

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,

‘गुजरात के ‘विनाश मॉडल’ को ध्वस्त करेगी दलित-मुस्लिम एकता’

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TCN News लखनऊ : ऊना, गुजरात में गौरक्षकों द्वारा दलितों की पिटाई के बाद ‘गाय की पूंछ तुम रखो, हमको हमारी ज़मीन दो’ के नारे...

Caste-based discrimination data sought from universities

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New Delhi (IANS): The University Grants Commission (UGC) has asked higher learning institutions to send data of complaints received against caste-based discrimination during the...

Police to question Ashis Nandy, three others in Delhi

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By IANS,

Book review: Loknath Yashwant’s Broken man might be too hard-hitting for ‘Ghalib’ fans

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Mirza Ghalib is a celebrated figure in the vast world of poetry, and many times Ghalib produces a self-demolishing effect on...

Velivada will stand, say students, as HCU admin pulls down banners, posters of Dalit...

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By Daisy K, TwoCircles.net Nearly three years after the institutional murder of Rohith Vemula, the HCU administration led by Vice Chancellor Appa Rao Podile continues...

Maharashtra Dalit Murders: Jawkheda – Anatomy of a dalit triple murder

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This is first of the two part series report about the brutal killing of a dalit family in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district and the subsequent agitation it has sparked because police is yet to arrest anybody for the ghastly crime By Sudhir Pedgaonkar for TwoCircles.net, Jawkheda, Pathardi (Dist Ahmednagar): When entire Maharashtra was celebrating Diwali – it is five days of festivities – Jawkheda (Khalsa), a village of about 2500 population, was mourning.

Christian of Dalit origin will be Dalit if he embraces Hinduism

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New Delhi : The Supreme Court Thursday said that a Dalit whose parents or grandparents embraced Christianity will get the benefits of reservation meant...

Pakistan to show patriotism.

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Ref:- Judicracy constitutionally absurd & politically untenable.

Dear Sir

Notwithstanding euphoria, in some quarters,Â over Supreme Court of Pakistan order to reinstate ex-Chief Justice IftikharÂ Chaudhry, it is a crucial and critical time for the people of Pakistan where they are required to show patriotism andÂ common sense, without coming under undue pressure of international community.

In the entire world only two types of Governments are there:-

(i)- Democracy where ultimate power is with people's representatives.

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...

विडम्बना : शमशान में जलाने से रोक दिया दलित महिला का शव

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर । Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के आगरा से एक बेहद शर्मनाक घटना सामने आई है। यहां दलित समाज की एक नवविवाहिता का शव श्मशान...

पसमांदा मुस्लिम समाज के राष्ट्रीय अधिवेशन में CAA का जबरदस्त विरोध

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By आस मोहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net लखनऊ- शनिवार को आयोजित किए गए पसमांदा मुस्लिम समाज के 8वें राष्ट्रीय अधिवेशन में CAA का मुद्दा छाया रहा।यहां वक्ताओं...

Protest in Delhi demands immediate action against killers of two Dalit children

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter New Delhi: A number of civil and human rights organisations united in protests outside the Haryana Bhawan in Delhi, denouncing the...

For Muslim reservation, PFI marched to the Parliament

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By TCN staff reporter, New Delhi: Demanding 10% reservation to all Muslims in India in Central Government services and educational institutions in the light of Justice Ranganath Misra Commission report thousands of Popular Front of India (PFI)’s activists marched to the parliament. Front’s chairman E. M. Abdul Rahiman while inaugurating the Public meeting after march to parliament said, “This march to the Indian Parliament is part of a two months long nationwide campaign for Muslim Reservation by Popular Front of India”

Mayawati did nothing for Dalits, says Rahul Gandhi

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Lucknow: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday launched a frontal attack on Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati, saying she was unlike her mentor and...

The Uphill Battle to Rejuvenate the Bahujan Samaj Party: Aakash Anand’s Daunting Task

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Asad Rizvi, TwoCircles.net Lucknow: Rejuvenating the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will be a formidable challenge for Aakash Anand. Despite his reinstatement as the national coordinator of...

Ambedkar King Study Circle Concludes Annual Conference in California

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By TCN News Around 120 people gathered with enthusiasm and engaged in lively discussions at Ambedkar King Study Circle's (AKSC) 2nd annual conference held on...

Worshipping Gods in the times of Elections

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By Ram Puniyani, Arun Shourie, who was part of NDA, a fellow traveler and an ideologue of BJP wrote several books, many of them against minorities and dalits in particular. One of these which was strongly protested against by large sections of people, dalits in particular, was his “Worshipping False Gods”. In this book he expressed the mind set of RSS-BJP politics towards Ambedkar. In this long bulky volume he was heavily critical of Ambedkar’s ideology, his agitations for democratic values and his struggles for social justice. Now a decade and half later on one side many a dalit leaders, Ramvilas Paswan, Udit Raj, Ramdas Athwaley are vying to sit in the lap of the politics of BJP for apparently their own personal gains on one side and on the other the BJP’s Prime Ministerial Candidate Narendra Modi is going miles to woo the sections of dalits. It is another matter that while doing this in his usual trade mark style he has no qualms about misrepresenting the events, speaking lies and putting the blame of all that has not taken place to his political adversaries.

A Portrait of the Indian as a Young Dalit Girl: Part 2 – Sister,...

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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...

Dhanya Raman: Giving a voice to the marginalised in Kerala

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

AIMIM Pune protests against the murder of Dalit, questions media’s silence over issue

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net Pune: The Pune-Chinchwad Unit of All India Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has strongly condemned killing of a Dalit youth Vicky Dhepe...

त्रासदी : बाढ़ में बुरी तरह डूब गया है उत्तर बिहार

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जिब्रानउद्दीन। Twocircles.net उत्तर बिहार में पिछले एक महीने से बाढ़ की भयावह स्थिति बनी हुई है। जिसके प्रभाव में आकर लाखों लोगों का जीवन...

Congress will raise Gujarat incidents in Parliament: Sonia

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New Delhi : Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday condemned the "atrocities" against Dalits and minorities in the country and said her party will...

भारत में सरकार नाम की कोई चीज़ है या नहीं?

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

The ‘undefined love’ of a left-leaning Defence Committee for the Bhim Army

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net On Tuesday, a few activists and lawyers from Delhi joined hands to protest against 'Modi-Yogi governments' in light of the oppression...

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...

Study finds only 66% of Muslim women using medical care for child delivery

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By TCN News New Delhi: A study published in the online journal PLos One has found poor migrant Muslim women to be one of the groups least likely to use safe medical care for child delivery.

‘Give My Son Justice’: Father of Dalit Boy Beaten to Death Over a ‘Spelling...

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Aliza Noor | TwoCircles.net Raju Kumar Dohre, a thirty-six years-old dalit man from Uttar Pradesh, found himself at a loss for words to talk about...

Human Rights Watch criticises Modi government over increasing attacks on Muslims and Dalits

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter New Delhi: Hindu vigilante groups attacked Muslims and Dalits over suspicions that they had killed, stolen, or sold cows for beef....

BJP, minorities, and 2014 elections

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By Asghar Ali Engineer

Advani clarified Ram controversy

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Ram of Dashrath, as a pious Hindu god, May be wandering in history's dark maze; But Ram of my make- as my party's icon, Is a fact,and born in full public gaze. I,with my estranged Uma,on Decem.6,1992, Gave him birth with thunderous bang; To display him, we razed the maternity home, All heard 'Ram Lala''Ram Lala'that we sang. To celebrate the event,we massacred Muslims, And nourished the newborn with their blood; We hoped him to defend us through the ages, And stand as a wall agaist opponents' flood. As an infant, my Ram was full of vigour,

Rural economy takes top slot in 9 pillars of Jaitley’s budget

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New Delhi : Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented India's national budget for 2016-17 in the Lok Sabha on Monday, saying the country was a...

Research scholars’ fellowships face fund crunch, students left in the lurch

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Fund for SC students worst affected. By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: Several research scholars, enrolled in M.Phil and PhD courses in different subjects in universities across the country are not getting their fellowships on time. Students belonging to the Scheduled Castes (SCs) seem to be most hit since Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has not released the fund for the year so far.

Rupesh Kumar: A filmmaker, academic, journalist with the sole aim of destroying casteism

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net The world of activism cannot function within boundaries, and for Kannur resident Rupesh Kumar, this statement is apt: he is...

28 crores to develop places related to Dr. Ambedkar

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By TCN News, Mumbai: It may be an unrelated move but in the wake of historic Ambedkar Bhavan destructoin on Saturday June 25th,...

दो दलित बच्चों की हत्या: खुले में शौच या जाति की वज़ह से गई...

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By Meena Kotwal, TwoCircles.net मध्यप्रदेश के शिवपुरी ज़िले का एक छोटा-सा गांव है भावखेड़ी. मुश्किल से 150 से 200 घर होंगे. भावखेड़ी वो गांव है जहां...

The anxieties around Dalit-Muslim unity: Part Two

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

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

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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.

‘I was denied food and beaten,’ the unregistered story of child trafficking in Bihar

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Trafficking is a common story of hundreds of children every year in Gaya and adjoining districts of Bihar including Nawdah, Aurangabad and Jahanabad. Many...

Delhi Congress’ women’s wing protests

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New Delhi:Hundreds of female activists of the Delhi Mahila Congress protested at the BJP headquarters here against yoga guru Baba Ramdev for his recent...

Arrests of Human rights activists and intellectuals across India strongly condemned

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By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Prominent activists’ and public intellectuals’ houses were raided and the activists and intellectuals who were critical of the government were arrested...

Aik Shaam Janab Dr. Saifi Sironji ke Naam

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Submitted by Syed Ziaur Rahman, Aligarh Aik Shaam Janab Dr. Saifi Sironji ke Naam was organized today (March 9, 2007) under the aegis of Aazar Academy (Aligarh). Some eminent poets of Aligarh founded Aazar Academy recently after the name of Late Janab Aazar Siyanvi, who was a noted poet and journalist of Aligarh.

‘This is our home from generations:’ residents of Haldwani on eviction orders

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Haldwani residents, majority of whom are Muslim, have challenged the Uttarakhand High Court's eviction order in the Supreme Court, which will hear the plea...

Fear grips Dalits in Gujarat village after youth’s killing

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Bhadraniya (Gujarat), (IANS): An atmosphere of fear hung over a colony of Dalits in this Gujarat village after the killing of a young man from...

Where has all the anger gone? Dalit survivors of Sunped wonder as they fight...

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By Amit Kumar for Twocircles.net This is the first in a four-part series on cases of Dalit atrocities in India which were brought up...

RJD to protest withholding caste Census data: Lalu

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Patna: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad on Sunday announced that his party would compel the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government to make...

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,...

The battle for rights should be fought outside India: Rajratna Ambedkar

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By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net After the demolition of the Guru Ravidas Temple in the Tughlakabad forest area on August 10, there have been protests not...

12 hours after arrest, court releases Dalit intellectual Teltumbde

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Pune (Maharashtra), Feb 2 (IANS) In a huge embarrassment for Maharashtra government, a Pune court ordered the release of Dalit intellectual Prof Anand Teltumbde,...

Haryana told to arrest all Dalit attack accused by Monday

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Supreme Court Thursday slammed the Haryana government for its failure to arrest all those who looted and burnt Dalit houses in Mirchpur village in Hisar district April 21 and told it to arrest by Monday all accused who are on the run. If those responsible for committing atrocities could not be arrested then what right does the director general of police have to continue in office, asked an apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice A.K. Ganguly.

Rahul challenges Mayawati in her Dalit bastion

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By IANS, Ambedkar Nagar (Uttar Pradesh) :Throwing a challenge to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Wednesday accused her of neglecting the welfare of the poor she claimed to represent. The son of Congress president Sonia Gandhi also asserted that he was confident of bringing the country's oldest political party to power in the state.

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...

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...

स्त्री – शिक्षा के लिए सब कुछ दांव पर लगाने वाली सावित्रीबाई फुले

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हमारे जानी दुश्मन का नाम है अज्ञान उसे धर दबोचो मजबूत पकड़ कर पीटो और उसे जीवन से भगा दो! तन्वी सुमन। Twocircles.net उपर लिखे हुए एक-एक शब्द भारत की...

दलितों को तबाह व बर्बाद कर देना चाहता है संघ —मायावती

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter मेरठ : टूटती आशा और डूबती सियासत के सिग्नल ने दलितों की देवी को जनता के चरणों में लाकर खड़ा कर दिया...

Dalit boy beaten up in Gujarat, two accused arrested

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Ahmedabad : A 15-year-old Dalit boy was allegedly beaten up late on Thursday evening by two men in Bhavda village of Daskroi taluka in...

The Black Coat Terrorism!

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By Mansoor Durrani for TwoCircles.net, Some leading members of India’s fascist forces publically admire Adolf Hitler. Martin Niemöller was a German national conservative and also,...

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.