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सवालों के प्रहार तले डेल्टा मेघवाल की मौत

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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...

Civil society adopts 7 point resolution over “Liberty and Fraternity in the Constitution: A...

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Many social activists, academicians, researchers and prominent citizens took part in a discussion on “Liberty and Fraternity in the...

Vitthal Umap: A versatile folk artist who will be remembered for his enthusiasm

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By Shiva Thorat, Twocircles.net ‘Rasik Maybapa tula bhetav jata jata ani evadhach sangav gata gata maj maran yav majh gan marananhi eikav’ (Audience...

PM should sack ministers, apologise for Dalit’s suicide: Kejriwal

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New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to sack the two ministers who allegedly interfered in...

तलवार की धार पर छत्तीसगढ़ के पत्रकार

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net दंतेवाड़ा (छत्तीसगढ़) : छत्तीसगढ़ के बस्तर इलाक़े में चौथे खंभे की हालत बेहद ही दयनीय है. नक्सली इलाक़े में जान-जोखिम...

Mayawati demands constitution amendment for SC/ST quota

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By IANS,

Maharashtra celebrates Ambedkar’s birth anniversary

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By IANS,

Civil society members visit Sunped, condemn role of state and central governments

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By TCN News New Delhi: A civil society delegation that included activists and senior Gandhians visited the Sunped village of Haryana on Thursday, meeting the...

हैदराबाद छात्र संघ चुनाव में अंबेडकरवादियों का जलवा

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    हैदराबाद छात्र संघ चुनाव में अंबेडकर वादियों और सामाजिक न्याय के पैरोकारो ने झंडा गाड़ दिया है। एएसए,डीडीयू, एसएफआई और अंबेडकर स्टूडेंट्स एसोसिएशन गठबंधन...

Bihar Mahadalit students complain about teachers, probe on

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Patna: A school teacher was among the eight people booked and a probe was ordered after Mahadalit childrens complained of caste discrimination in a...

दलितों में उत्साह जगा रही है भीम आर्मी चीफ़ चन्द्रशेख़र ‘रावण’ की जेल से...

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter सहारनपुर : भीम आर्मी का खेल ख़त्म समझने वाले अपनी ग़लतफ़हमी दूर कर लें, क्योंकि इसके समर्थकों की संख्या लगातार बढ़ती जा...

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

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

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...

Dalits to rally for Bahujan Lokpal bill

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By IANS,

कोरोनाकाल मे दलित महिलाओं की हालत चिंताजनक,सह रही है अधिक उत्पीड़न

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सुमन देवठिया समय कोरोना महामारी पूरे देश मे फ़ैल रही है जिसकी चपेट मे भारत भी है, इस कोरोना ने ना केवल इंसान के स्वास्थ्य...

Raju Chalwadi: Helping migrant Dalit-Bahujan students crack higher education

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By Daisy Katta, TwoCircles.net In a small room located on the first floor of a tiny two-storey house in the migrant colony of Baiganwadi area...

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...

Radhika Vemula has a message for the PM this Women’s Day

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An open letter from Radhika Vemula to the Prime Minister Jai Bhim everyone, My name is Radhika Vemula. I am Rohith Vemula’s mother. This International Women’s...

The UP election is a tussle between Hindutva and Dalit Bahujan politics

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By Sanjay Kumar & Badre Alam for Twocircles.net More than three decades of BSP politics have, no doubt, given political voices to the Bahujan masses....

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.

दलित-मुस्लिम महिलाओं के हक के लिए लड़ती कनीज़ फातिमा

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फहमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net आजमगढ़(उत्तर प्रदेश): हमारे समाज में आज भी जब औरतें आजीविका के लिए घर से बाहर कदम रखती हैं तो उन्हें कड़ी चुनौतियों...

Atrocities on Dalits have increased under Modi regime: Rahul Gandhi

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Lucknow : Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi on Friday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over increasing attacks on Dalits and price rise, and accused him...

A letter to NHRC

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Chairman, Human Rights Commission. Chairman, National Commission for Minorities. Dear Sir, With regard to the two alleged bomb blasts that took place in `Lumbini-Park' and `Gokul Chat' at Hyderabad, we would like to express our deepest grief and regret at this turn of events and join with the government in trying to identify the perpetrators and bring them to book.

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

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

‘Gau rakshaks’ have brought shame to India

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By Amulya Ganguli The decades-old reputation of the Jana Sangh and its successor, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as a Brahmin-Bania party has been reinforced...

Didn’t protect Dalit family for vote bank: Bihar CM

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Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi Sunday revealed that the risk of losing at least 50,000 votes from a "powerful caste" had once...

Paswan faces stiff competition, but ‘BJP votes’ may help him clinch victory narrowly

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By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, Hajipur: As Hajipur voted on May 7, local poster of boy in Indian politics, Lok Jan Shakti Party leader Ram Vilas Paswan appeared to be facing stiff competition, but he may clinch the victory, even though he may not be able to register his name in the Guinness book, this time around.

‘Muslims should unite with well-wishers from Hindu community and Dalits to tackle communalism’

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By Shaik Zakeer Hussain, TwoCircles.net,

After Lalu, Nitish, Manjhi also want caste census data release

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Patna: A day after Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad, Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar and his predecessor Jitan Ram Manjhi on Monday...

Government grants more funds to promote tribal, folk cultures

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By IANS,

Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) celebrates Bhim Jayanti

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TCN News Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India’s pluralist ethos, on April 14, marked the birthday of B R...

Congress supports NCSC on Dalit education issue

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New Delhi : The Congress on Friday welcomed the National Commission of Scheduled Castes' (NCSC) observation that amendments to the panchayat acts which mandated...

HarperCollins to publish Gidla’s memoir of growing up as a Dalit in India

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New Delhi, (IANS) After creating waves in US literary circles, the provocative memoir of Sujatha Gidla which details her memories of growing up as an...

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...

Mahadalit exodus: Bihar to develop Pura as model village

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Patna : Pura village, which witnessed an exodus by hundreds of Mahadalits who were threatened by upper caste men, will be developed as a...

Two months after being attacked by SFI cadre, Dalit student continues to wait for...

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By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net This is the third and final part of a three-part series of stories documenting caste discrimination against Dalit, Bahujan and...

Muzaffarnagar faces fresh set of violence as Rajputs attacked Dalits leaving 18 injured

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Siddhant Mohan & Aas Mohammad Kaif, TwoCircles.net A day before the anniversary of infamous Muzaffarnagar riots, violence erupted in Bhoopkheda village as upper caste Rajputs...

Hour of reckoning for constitutionally secular Hindu majority India.

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Ref: - Was India dishonest when gave assurance to Muslims after 1947 partition? Dear Sir This refers to Thursday 'Tehelka' exposure on Indian T.V. channels which was also reproduced next day in prominent print media, exposing State sponsored gory massacre of thousands of innocent Muslims in Gujarat 2002 pogrom.

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

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By IANS,

‘Jungle Raj’ in Rajasthan

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By IndScribe One after the other, shocking incidents of crimes and atrocities on the Dalits are being reported from Rajasthan. The latest incident has occurred in...

Students across Mumbai come out in support of Fathima Latheef, JNU students

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter As the protests across both IIT Madras and JNU surged with more and more students coming out on the streets, hundreds...

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...

Parliamentary panel slams JNU on SC/ST vacancies

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New Delhi : A parliamentary panel has flayed the JNU administration for what it said was "insouciant attitude" on faculty vacancies meant to be...

Dalit IAS officer explores law to preach Christianity

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Chennai : Senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer C. Umashankar is looking at legal options to challenge a government directive forbidding him from preaching...

Political ambitions behind claims for Ambedkar’s legacy, say experts

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By Sidhartha Dutta and Mohd Asim Khan New Delhi : Political parties seem to be seeking to outdo each other in claiming the legacy B....

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...

Lakshmipet killing: Dalit Mahasabha demand sacking of Pradesh Congress chief

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By TCN News

Will not allow any dilution in SC/ST Act: Rajnath

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By IANS: New Delhi, July 18: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday assured the Rajya Sabha that the government will not allow any dilution in any...

Abducted woman untraced, husband still in hospital

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By IANS, Patna : An upper caste woman abducted in Bihar 12 days ago allegedly for marrying a Dalit against her family's wishes remains untraced, police said Sunday.

Harvard India Conference sees protests against Rohith Vemula’s suicide

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By TCN News, Cambridge (USA): The 13th annual edition of the Harvard India conference saw protests against the death of Rohith Vemula, a Dalit research...

Dalit Mahila Swabhiman Yatra culminates after month long journey

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

V.K. Singh stirs row with ‘dog’ remark, clarifies

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New Delhi : Union minister V.K. Singh on Thursday triggered a huge row when he spoke of a dog's stoning while commenting on...

All vacant posts for SC/ST will soon be filled: Kejriwal

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New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said all vacant posts meant for SC/STs would soon be filled. "We will ensure that...

Untouchables in predatory world of EdTech industry: Making a case for recognition of critical...

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Digital learning carries with it the same biases and inequities that dominate the sphere of traditional education. Riya Talitha | TwoCircles.net  NEW DELHI — Rishab P,...

Bihar priest beaten for pushing Dalit woman out of temple

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Patna: A priest was beaten up by a group of men after he pushed a Dalit woman and forcibly stopped her from offering prayers...

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...

Dalit leader Udit Raj joins BJP

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi : Dalit leader Udit Raj Monday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here. Welcoming Udit Raj in the party, party...

Aadhaar linkage threatens voter exclusion among Dalits, Adivasis

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Lakhs of people are victims of deprivation ever since mandatory Aadhaar-linking to various social security benefits was introduced. Countless such Catch-22 like cases...

अनाथ नज़र आता है मायावती का आदर्श ग्राम ‘माल गांव’

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net माल/ मलीहाबाद (लखनऊ) : ‘हमें बहन जी ने गोद में लिया कब था, ये अलग बात है कि गोद में लेने...

हाथरस कांड : सीबीआई ने माना, गैंगरेप के बाद ही हुई थी दलित युवती...

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर। Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के हाथरस में गैंगरेप और हत्याकांड मामले  की जांच कर रही सीबीआई ने शुक्रवार को मामले की एससी/एसटी कोर्ट में...

“Shiv Kumar has multiple injuries, fractures in left hand, right foot,” says medical report,...

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Shiv Kumar is president of Mazdoor Adhikar Sangathan (MAS) and a co-accused in the case against Dalit labour rights activist Nodeep Kaur. He was...

Another exercise in deception

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Ref: - International Kashmir conference held at Uruguay.

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The first ever Kashmir Conference in Latin America was held on July 31, 2007 in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay where eight point hollow resolution was unanimously adopted except one relevant point that is  'right to self determination by people of J&K'.

Muslims in the new world order

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दलित साहित्य समारोह, दूसरे साहित्य समारोह के बीच में एक अलग पहचान

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मीना कोटवाल, Twocircles.net दिल्ली। देश में कई तरह के साहित्यिक समारोह होते हैं। लेकिन पिछले दो साल से दिल्ली में दलित साहित्य समारोह का आयोजन किया...

MIM’s Dalit candidates give impressive performance in Maharashtra elections

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By TCN Staff Reporter, Mumbai: Since its entry into the Maharashtra politics, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) often spoke about Muslim-Dalit political alliance. Assembly election 2014 – the party did walk the talk, considering the performance of all its Dalit candidates.

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...

Even today people treat me as an untouchable: Bihar CM

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Patna : Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi Sunday revealed that he is still treated as an "untouchable" by some "powerful people" as he...

Being Dalit means being casteless – Kavin Malar

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By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Dalit History Month began in 2015 inspired by the ‘Black History month’ in the US. April is observed as the Dalit...

On Rohith Vemula’s first anniversary, Jamia students pay respect, organise protests

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: Commemorating the first anniversary of  research scholar Rohith Vemula’s suicide, students of Jamia Millia Islamia on Wednesday under...

सहारनपुर जातीय संघर्ष : क्या सोचते हैं यहां के दलित नौजवान?

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : उत्तर प्रदेश में सहारनपुर ज़िले के शब्बीरपुर व उसके आस-पास के गांव में शुक्रवार को हुए जातीय संघर्ष के...

‘जान दे देंगे, अगर चंद्रशेखर को हाथ भी लगाया तो…’

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर :  ‘मेरा नाम विमला… मेरे आदमी का बदलू और लड़के का देवेंद्र और पोते का परमवीर! क्यों अर वोई रख...

दलितों के भविष्य को मज़बूत बना रही हैं ये भीम पाठशालाएं

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर/मुज़फ़्फ़रनगर : “वो क्या है जिसे हम देख तो सकते हैं, मगर छू नहीं सकते. इस सवाल पर कक्षा के...

More Cow : Modi’s 19-member ‘scientific team’ to research on cow dung and urine

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter   Even if Narendra Modi has condemned atrocities of right wing organizations in the name of cow-protection, but the action of his government...

Two men arrested for attacking Dalits in Karnataka village

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Raichur (Karnakata) : The Karnataka police have arrested two men so far for barging into the Dalit colony and attacking...

Stalin torchbearer for upliftment of Dalits: Karunanidhi

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By IANS, Chennai : DMK president M. Karunanidhi Thursday said his second son, M.K. Stalin, would be the party's torchbearer after him to fight for the upliftment of Dalits.

NCP backs Goa RSS rap to BJP government over languages

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Panaji : A day after Subhash Velingkar, who heads the RSS in Goa, attacked the BJP for alleged betrayal of Indian regional languages over...

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

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

BJP ally in Maharashtra to lead protest against beef ban

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Shetkari Sanghatana (Farmers Association) too term Beef ban as against farmers’ interest By TwoCircles.net Staff reporter, Mumbai: The Republican Party of India...

Notice to Delhi government, AAI over failure to rehabilitate Dalits

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New Delhi (IANS) : The National Human Rights Commission on Monday issued notice to the Delhi government and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) following...

Indian Americans hail California Democratic Party’s designation of caste as a protected category

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The California Democratic Party is the largest state party in the United States to take a stance on caste discrimination, marking an important step...

Modi government committed to OBC reservation, say Rajnath, Ananth Kumar

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New Delhi : The Narendra Modi government on Monday asserted that it is committed to reservation for Other Backward Class (OBC) with Union Home...

Yogesh Wanjari: Translating Dalit literature so that Ambedkarite struggle can be looked through its...

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By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net Yogesh Wanjari, an M.Phil Student of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai recently translated the book of J V Pawar...

Two Dalits die in police firing in Tamil Nadu

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By TCN News,

SAVE THE AUTONOMY OF M.S.UNIVERSITY,BARODA

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AND RESIST ALL OUT SAFFRONISATION The vandalism in the fine arts by the saffron brigade with the help of the police and complicity with the V.C. and the University authority has been nakedly exposed. This act by the saffron brigade is the culmination of the saffronisation of the MSU which had crept the University under the BJP rule in the state for more than one decade and the process accelerated after the Gujarat Carnage 2002.There are more than -nine Universities in the state besides the professional Universities.

Sarkeguda Massacre: Demand for prosecution of CRPF personnel under SC/ST Act

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By TCN News,

“Nodeep is in jail because she stood with protesting farmers,” says family, vows to...

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As per her family, Nodeep dismantled the government’s claim that people from the nearby areas are facing problems due to the farmer’s protest by...

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...

Dalit killed for demanding wages

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By IANS, Bhopal : A Dalit in a Madhya Pradesh village only wanted payment of wages due to him -- but what he got was death. Mason Ramesh Jatav was allegedly killed after he demanded Rs.4,000 for the work he had done for farmer Shriram Lodhi, police Sunday said. Thirty-eight-year-old Jatav was killed in Shivpuri district Friday night when he had gone to Shriram's house with his wife to demand back-wages. According to police, Shriram and his relative Gabdu Lodhi took the couple to a nearby field and killed Jatav, a resident of Sirsona village, about 350 km from here.

Can a Savarna apply for a ‘Dalit’ job? No, says RSS

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Ahmedabad: It is no secret that when it comes to doing menial jobs in our society, it is almost always seen...

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...

Why was the right arm of Dr. Ambedkar’s statue broken in UP’s Gautam Budh...

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Aatika S | TwoCircles As the internationally celebrated event of Dalit History month comes to an end, the Indian subcontinent is reeling with an increased...

“We should record our history, our victory” Dalit poet Mercy Margaret

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Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Dalit literature that revolves around the struggles and lives of Dalits first emerged in the 1960s and has seen exponential growth since....

Taking cue from Black Lives Matter, ‘Dalit, Minorities, Tribal Lives Matter’ campaign launched in...

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Taking a cue from the ongoing mass campaign Black Lives Matter, South Asian Minorities Lawyers Association has decided to launch a...

Beating of 3 Paraya boys in Kozhikode unpack existing caste-violence in Kerala

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By Ashfaque EJ, TwoCircles.net Kozhikode: “It’s been a week after we got beaten and casteist slurs were used against us. The police have failed to...

Why is conversion to Buddhism so controversial?

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

The anxieties around Dalit-Muslim unity: Part One

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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...

Writer returns award, says Dalit suffering won’t end

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Ahmedabad : Gujarati writer Amrutlal Makwana has returned a state award he got to protest against the beating of some Dalit youths in the...

Rahul Gandhi flays Centre for ‘indifference’ to Dalits

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Jaipur : Demanding a CBI inquiry into the rape of a now-dead minor Dalit girl in Rajasthan, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday...

This time, Sangh Parivar should not be allowed to get away

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Ref: - Great implications of Ram Setu controversy on Babri Masjid dispute & on future of SAARC. Dear Sir

Rohith’s death was institutional murder: CPI-M leader

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New Delhi : CPI-M leader M.B. Rajesh on Wednesday said Hyderabad Central University student Rohith Vemula's death was an “institutional murder”. “Rohith's death is an...

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...

Gandhi’s people in Maoist land

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By Aishik Chanda, Kukurbhukka, Jashpur district (Chhattisgarh): They travel in a van donated by a Gondi Adivasi organization of Bastar. They spend the night with benevolent villagers and eat whatever is offered. The 12-member CGNet Swara team that travels through central India promoting citizen journalism through mobile radio is a diverse lot.

Computerise Capital’s mosques, suggests Delhi Minorities Panel

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Dear Sirs,

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

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

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

End reservations: BJP leader

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Patna: BJP leader C.P. Thakur Saturday demanded an end to reservations in jobs and educational institutions, triggering a row. "Reservations should end in jobs and...

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.

Medha Patkar opposes slum demolition

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By IANS, Mumbai : Social activist Medha Patkar Friday tried to stop the razing of hutments at Anna Bhau Sathe Nagar here, demanding that the slum dwellers be first provided alternative accommodation. Patkar and her supporters dubbed the demolition as anti-Dalit and vowed to stop it. "They (Dalits) are the backbone of this city. Their rights should not be taken away just because they are poor," she said. She said about 10,000 residents of the area in Mumbai's northeast suburb had nowhere to go.

Dalit-Muslim unity is the need of the hour – Asaduddin Owaisi

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By Mohd Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net, Hyderabad: It’s a rough summer afternoon in Hyderabad, but the newly renovated Majlis-e-Itehadul Muslimeen headquarter ‘Daraul Salam (abode of peace)’ is packed with ticket aspirants, many of them interestingly are Dalits. MIM’s screams of expansion and alliance with Dalits has resonated well with its cadre to expand their base.

Jaitanpur: A neglected village an hour away from Lucknow

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

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

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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...

In EFLU, five Dalit students ‘defamed’ a professor. How? By speaking against oppression

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net On January 17, Rohith Vemula, a Dalit student at the University of Hyderabad, committed suicide. For the whole year, his...

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...

ABVP on the rampage again, this time in BHU

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They disrupted a program featuring a JNU professor, threatened TCN reporter By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Varanasi: Earlier today Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad(ABVP) members tried to stop...

Dalit groom seeks police protection to ride mare

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By IANS,

Reservation for Dalit Muslims

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By M Naushad Ansari,

Modi blames Congress for farmers’ poor condition

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Sasaram/Gaya (Bihar) : BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi at the election rallies in Bihar Thursday hit out at the Congress for neglecting farmers,...

डेल्टा हत्याकांड के दो साल : ‘देश में ऐसा सिस्टम है तो फिर हम...

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नई दिल्ली : ‘तन और मन से तो पहले ही टूट चुके थे, अब धन से भी टूट चुके हैं. इंसाफ़...

Partial shutdown in Bihar over acquittals in Dalit massacre

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Patna : Road and rail traffic in Bihar was partly hit Friday during a shutdown called by the CPI-ML to protest against the acquittal...

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