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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, tribals can perform as good as others: PM

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Noida : People from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes will perform as well as others if they are given the opportunity, Prime Minister...

Tension grips Haryana village as vehicles torched

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Chandigarh : Police reinforcements were rushed to Haryana's Tigra village early Sunday after few vehicles were set on fire, police said. Tension had been brewing...

A book by this Dalit author has left RSS fuming

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The 72-page book on RSS by a Dalit writer Devanur Mahadeva from Karnataka criticizes the right-wing Hindu nationalist party and is hitting record sales...

बिहार : घर में काम करने से इंकार किया तो दबंगों ने कर दी...

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जिब्रानउद्दीन।Twocircles.net आज 21वीं सदी में भी धर्म और जाति के आधार पर हो रहे अपराधों का आंकड़ा थमने का नाम नहीं ले रहा और...

दम है मायावती बनने का!

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net बहुजन समाज पार्टी की अध्यक्ष बहन मायावती हमेशा से ही अपने फ़ैसलों से राजनितिक पंडितों को आश्चर्यचकित करती रही हैं. शुरुआत...

Maya Kharat: A Dalit woman who has dedicated her life to distributing Babasaheb’s writings

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By Shiva Thorat, Twocircles.net Over the past few years, the works of Dr BR Ambedkar have been appropriated by a number of publication houses-big and...

The four school-going Dalit girls were allegedly kidnapped and raped March 23 by upper caste men in Bhagana. The protestors have been demanding the arrest of the village head and his son along with others whose names have not been included in the police complaint.

Gujarat unrest: 5 more Dalits attempt suicide in Saurashtra

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Rajkot : Five more Dalit persons allegedly tried to commit suicide in two separate incidents in Gujarat as widespread protests against last week's thrashing...

Khabar Lahariya: Making rural media a force for change

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By Rupesh Dutta, New Delhi : It was never easy for Meera Jato, 42, to confront her in-laws' taunts, deal with household hassles and start the country's first rural language weekly "Khabar Lahariya" (News Wave) run only by women. It has in its short existence carved out a clear niche for itself in the ever-expanding media space in India.

Ashit Sable: A young documentary maker highlighting the role of Shahiris of Maharashtra

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By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net In its purest sense, the role of an artist has always been to work for the empowerment and enlightenment of the...

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...

‘Muslim and Christian Dalits must also get the SC Status’

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By TCN News,

Gorakhpur: Like 2014, by-elections will be a fight between Brahmin and OBC candidates

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Akhilesh Yadav, national president of Samajwadi Party and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, has decided to field Praveen Kumar Nishad,...

Complaint filed against caste panchayat in Rajasthan

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Jaipur : A complaint was registered Tuesday against some members of a caste panchayat in Rajasthan's Rajsamand district after they allegedly ostracized members of...

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...

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...

A silent morcha by ‘forward’ castes and the ‘wrath’ of Dalit Sena in Aurangabad

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By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net Aurangabad: Dalit Sena, a group of a working class youth in Aurangabad, protested on the night of August 28, against...

Dalit land remains loyal to Mayawati

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By IANS, Agra : Agra, the Dalit capital of northern India, Tuesday dominantly stood by Chief Minister Mayawati even as her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) suffered blows elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh.

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...

Five point programme for Indian muslims

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we are living in a society where interest is collected for every work.under inevitable circumstances lakhs of indian muslims converted into pan brokers,bankers etc.They never lend money to their muslim brothers without interest.why? they have to survive. Crores of indian muslims addicted to dowry.They wont marry a girl without taking dowry.

200 Mahadalits convert to Christianity in Bihar, probe ordered

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Patna : Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi Thursday ordered a probe into the conversion of 40 Mahadalit families comprising 200 people to Christianity...

Almost 60 years later, Deekshabhoomi continues to draw Ambedkarites

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By Nivedita Khandekar Nagpur (Maharashtra): Hemlata Sontakke, 60, was too young to remember the epoch making event she had attended with...

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

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By TCN News,

An eyewitness account of the Women’s March in Boston

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net “This is the biggest march I have seen,” said an old timer who seemed to be someone who have participated in lots...

Three Dalit youths found murdered in Uttar Pradesh

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By IANS,

‘बीफ़ के मुद्दे पर धार्मिक ध्रुवीकरण करके ब्राह्मणवादी सरकार मूलनिवासी बहुजनों को आपस में...

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter नई दिल्ली : बामसेफ की राष्ट्रीय उपाध्यक्ष डॉ. मनीषा बांगर ने देश की मौजूदा स्थिति को लोकतंत्र के लिए ख़तरनाक बताया है....

Banaras weavers to showcase their products at Dilli Haat

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By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

TCN questions for Narendra Modi

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By TwoCircles.net team, New Delhi: BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has opened up for interviews and he is being interviewed by number of TV...

Dalits’ beating in Gujarat is the repetition of Akhlaq’s killing in Dadri: Welfare Party...

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Strongly condemning the brutal and inhuman attack on Dalits in Una, Gujarat for skinning dead cow, Welfare Party of India...

Mayawati names new party chief for UP unit

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Lucknow (IANS): BSP chief Mayawati on Saturday effected a major shake up in the party organization, naming R.S. Kushwaha as the new president of...

‘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...

A new documentary challenges notions of mainstream anti-caste movement

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Caste-ing Space raises serious questions about the prevalence of caste in social spaces and underlies crucial concerns in anti-caste circles. Muhammed Nihad PV | TwoCircles.net KERALA — A...

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.

In Pictures: Amid pandemic, award winning Chennai based Dalit folk artist Karthick Annan takes...

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Karthick Annan is a 35-year-old Dalit folk artist from Chennai, mastered in different folk art forms produced from an indigenous culture in Tamil Nadu...

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 independent publishers ensure Ambedkarite literature continues to reach the masses

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By Daisy K, TwoCircles.net Every year on December 6, millions of people from all over India gather at Chaityabhoomi in Shivaji Park, Mumbai to pay...

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...

Dalits in UP being victimized: Amit Shah

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Lucknow : BJP President Amit Shah on Friday blamed Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav for rising atrocities on Dalits in Uttar Pradesh. Speaking at...

Spat with minister: Haryana transfers woman police officer

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Chandigarh : The Haryana government transferred IPS officer Sangeeta Kalia on Saturday, a day after she refused to leave a meeting when Health and...

Dalit woman assaulted for son’s elopement

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By IANS,

Eight Mahadalits converted to Christianity in Bihar

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Patna: Eight poor Mahadalits, including a woman, converted to Christianity in a village in Bihar's Munger district, an official said Saturday. "It is a fact...

Tension in UP town over BJP, Congress protests

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Ghaziabad : Tension gripped the Kanth area of Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad district Saturday as the BJP refused to back out of its proposed protest...

Savita Ali: Raising her voice to highlight atrocities against Dalit and Muslim women

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Patna: Savita Ali remembers the time when she was in school, in a village called Naraina, district Panipat. She had just...

Yashica Dutt’s book ‘Coming Out as Dalit’ to be released in 2017

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By TCN News, A book written by Yashica Dutt, a journalist living in New York, who concealed her identity of being a dalit for a...

Research fellowship hiked for others; SC/ST, minority scholars feel let down by govt’s biased...

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By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Research fellows belonging to the scheduled caste, scheduled tribes and minority communities across the country are feeling let down alleging that the central government overlooked them from the recent fellowship hike that their counterparts from other categories received.

The culprits of 1993 Bombay serial blasts have

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The culprits of 1993 Bombay serial blasts have received their penalties for the retaliatory measures when, in the wake of the demolition of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya on the most tragic day of December, 6,1992, there were no traces of law or the guardians of law to check the massacre of Muslims on the streets of Bombay and else where in India. However, whatever must have been the circumstances, there cannot be any justification for such horrendous crimes which claimed hundreds of innocent lives. While nobody must feel pity for what the terrorists of Bombay

Lal Singh Dil wrote about wretched of the earth: Dalit poet’s translator

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By Sourabh Gupta, IANS,

Indian Americans express outrage over mob lynchings in India through protests across US

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TCN News The Alliance for Justice and Accountability (AJA), an umbrella coalition of progressive organizations across the United States and various coalition partners held protests...

Principal to be arrested for Bihar Dalit student’s thrashing

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Patna : Bihar Police has ordered the arrest of a Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV)principal for not taking timely action in a Dalit student's thrashing in...

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...

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...

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...

A letter to the Financial Reforms Committee of Planning Commission of India

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By Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai proposal for joint ventures in islamic banking in collaboration with international islamic banks and/or international banks with islamic banking operational expertise Financial Sector Reforms are needed, as per Mr. Raghuram G. Rajan's introductory remarks, to

Canterbury Archbishop for special status to Dalit Christians

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By IANS,

दलित हत्याओं के खिलाफ़ जंतर-मंतर पर प्रदर्शन

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By TCN News, नई दिल्ली: हरियाणा के फरीदाबाद में 20 अक्टूबर 2015 को दबंगों ने रात में सोते हुए एक दलित परिवार पर पेट्रोल डालकर...

परमाणु ऊर्जा के खिलाफ चुटका में संघर्ष जारी

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TCN News जबलपुर: कल तारीख 31 मई 2015 को चुटका परमाणु बिजली परियोजना के खिलाफ चुटका में हुई स्थानीय लोगों की विरोध सभा में...

Dalit posts being given to general category, says Buta Singh

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By IANS, Bhopal : National Commission for the Scheduled Castes (NCSC) chairman Buta Singh Sunday said that Dalits were being denied their fundamental right in Madhya Pradesh and that the government was recruiting general category candidates to fill the backlog of vacancies reserved for these castes. Singh, who was on the fact-finding mission to Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's native village in Sehore district, 100 km from here, after media reports that Dalits were not allowed entry into the three temples there, was accompanied by NCSC member from Madhya Pradesh Mahendra Boudh.

तेलंगाना के नल्लामाडूगु गांव में अंबेडकर प्रतिमा के लिए रंग लाया दलितों का संघर्ष

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निकहत फ़ातिमा । Twocircles.net भारत के संविधान के वास्तुकार और समाज सुधारक डॉ बीआर अंबेडकर को सम्मानित करने के लिए उनकी प्रतिमा के निर्माण के...

Social distancing being used to reinforce caste bias, justify Manusmriti, says Dalit activist Ramesh...

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Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net The COVID-19 continues to spread in India, with latest death toll figures close to over 20,000. While many reports and studies have...

कोरोना से जनता लड़ रही हैं, सीमा पर सेना लड़ रही है और हमारी...

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Twocircles.net के साथ अपने एक घण्टे के इंटरव्यू मे भीम आर्मी सुप्रीमो चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद- बहुजनों की तमाम परेशानियों, षडयंत्रो और संभावनाओ पर बात करते हैं। वो...

Bhim army supremo Chandrashekar Azad arrested again in Deoband, UP

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TCN News Chandrashekar Azad, Chief of Bhim Army was arrested today and taken in police custody Deoband's Kasimpura village. The Dalit leader was on his way...

Film advocating philosophy of Ambedkar screened in Boston, US

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Boston Study Group (BSG), a not-for-profit organization based in Massachusetts, United States screened a movie Jayanti. The movie is based on the influence of Dr Babasaheb...

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...

रविदास जयंती के पहले बेगमपुरा एक्सप्रेस रद्द, दलितों और सिखों में गुस्सा

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सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net वाराणसी : बनारस में एक मोहल्ला है, सीर गोवर्धन. यहां आप संत रविदास जयंती के दिन घुसेंगे तो पिसने की नौबत आ...

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.

उत्तर प्रदेश : दलित वोटों का बंटवारा और बसपा का विकल्प

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विद्या भूषण रावत उत्तर प्रदेश में बहुजन और दलितों का नेतृत्व करने वालों की कतार लग गयी है. ये कोई बुरी बात नहीं है क्योंकि...

मोदी सरकार के तीन साल और दलितों में टकराव व बदलाव की नई चेतना

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फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net देश में आज से तीन साल पहले भाजपा की मोदी सरकार बनने के साथ ही लोगों में ये उम्मीद साफ़ देखने को...

Atrocities against Dalits legitimises casteist orientation: Swaraj Abhiyan

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New Delhi : Swaraj Abhiyan National President Anand Kumar on Thursday said increasing incidents of atrocities against the Dalits had lent a kind of...

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।...

Arrest Dalit children’s killers: CPI-M

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Faridabad (Haryana): The CPI-M on Wednesday demanded the immediate arrest of those who killed two Dalit children here. "It is the utter failure of the...

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...

As a Savarna, I am ashamed but not surprised by our silence over vandalism...

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Growing up in Bokaro Steel City in Jharkhand meant a lot of things, but one thing that never escaped us (or...

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...

Kerala youth congress ‘purify’ the spot where a Dalit MLA sat for protest

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TCN News Geetha Gopi, a Dalit MLA of CPI, from Nattika constituency, Thrissur District, Kerala, sat down in front of the PWD (Public Welfare Department)...

भागलपुर पुलिसिया दमन : नीतीश कुमार के ‘सामाजिक न्याय की प्रतिबद्धता’ को कर दिया...

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter दिल्ली : उत्तर प्रदेश के लखनऊ में अपने पुराने पेंशन व अन्य मांगों को लेकर प्रदर्शन कर रहे शिक्षकों पर पुलिस...

CID to probe Dalit youths’ killings in Maharashtra

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By IANS, Mumbai : The Maharashtra government Tuesday ordered the state CID to probe the brutal killings of three Dalit youths last month in Ahmednagar district, an official said here.

Like Mayawati like Manohar: Social engineering redux in Goa

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By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, IANS,

Rahul ‘sorry’ for nation’s apathy to Dalit farmer-scientist

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Nagpur (IANS): Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday visited the family of late Dalit farmer-scientist Dadaji Ramaji Khobragade in Chandrapur, Maharashtra, and apologised for...

Man weds widow in front of Gandhi statue

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Patna : Breaking with tradition, a man married a widow in front of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, whom they termed a 'witness' like...

Give up ‘hypocrisy’ of love for Dalits, BJP tells Rahul

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday asked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to stop his "hypocrisy of love for Dalits" and instead ensure rehabilitation of the 150 families of the community forced out of their homes by upper castes in Haryana. The party also slammed the state Congress government for its failure.

Two Dalit boys suspected to be thieves lynched in Bihar

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Patna : Two Dalit students, awaiting their Class 10 results, were lynched in a Bihar village on suspicion that they were thieves. Two of...

बिजनौर : दलित-मुस्लिम एकता में खटास

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net बिजनौर: उत्तर प्रदेश विधानसभा चुनाव के दूसरे चरण के मतदान से ठीक पहले बिजनौर जिले में सांप्रदायिक तनाव है. एक युवक...

BJP’s Dalit outreach under threat

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By Amulya Ganguli There is a long way to go before Uttar Pradesh can become Uttam Pradesh, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised after his...

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...

Dalit woman raped in Odisha, one arrested

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar: A 50-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for raping a Dalit woman in Odisha, police said.

Dalit chamber of commerce signs MoU with EDII to incubate Dalit enterprise

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By IANS Ahmedabad: The Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), in a first, has signed an MoU with the Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and...

Ambedkar great son of India: Modi tells British Parliament

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London: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday described B.R. Ambedkar as a "great son of India" in his speech at the British Parliament and...

गाय के नाम पर अब लखनऊ में दलितों की पिटाई

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TCN News लखनऊ : गाय के नाम पर गुजरात में दलितों की पिटाई के बाद अब दूसरा मामला उत्तर प्रदेश के लखनऊ में सामने आया...

शराबबंदी कानून : सज़ा से पहले सज़ा-ए-मौत

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फहमीना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net बिहार कैबिनेट ने करीब दो साल पहले पूर्ण शराबबंदी कानून को लागू किया था. इन दो साल में तमाम लोगो पर इस कानून...

Act against ‘atrocities’ on Telangana’s Dalits, Congress tells panels

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New Delhi/Hyderabad, (IANS): The Congress on Wednesday urged the NHRC and the National Commission for Scheduled Castes to direct the Telangana government to take action...

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...

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...

When elections are round the corner, even a suicide and a robbery become political

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By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net Baudhwada, a village in Shirpur of district Dhule, Maharashtra, has been a quiet area, consisting of Buddhists and Mahar population. Until...

Kashmiris to emphasize and practise ‘Unified J&K’

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Ref: - Present goodwill of India , Pakistan & international community be utilized

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Normally any community which lays down the lives of its so many people does not remain without being master of its political destiny. But Kashmiris (despite sacrificing more than 80,000 people as per Nicholson's report adopted by EU's Parliament vide A6-0158/2007 on May 24, 2007) are still groping in the dark mainly due to:-

Delhi group to send Fact Finding team to investigate Bihar gang rape of Mahadalit...

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By TCN News, Patna: A fact finding team of the Delhi Solidarity Group will investigate between November 6 and 8 the recent gang rape of six Mahadalit women, four of them minors, in Bihar’s Bhojpur district. Six women, four of them teenagers, from Dumaria village belonging to the Mahadalit community were gang-raped at gun point by three men in Kurmuri village on October 8. The medical examination of the women has confirmed they were sexually assaulted. A former member of Ranvir Sena allegedly raped the women with two of his associates.

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...

BJP desires ‘Hindu Rashtra’, Modi has failed, says Mayawati

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Lucknow : BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday accused the BJP of trying to convert India into a "Hindu Rashtra" and said Prime Minister Narendra...

Thousands gather to pay respect to Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar on Mahaparinirvan Diwas: A photo...

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December 6 marks the death anniversary of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. Like every year, thousands of people from across the nation gathered at Chaitanyabhoomi in...

NDA to tread Ambedkar’s path; favours quota in private sector

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New Delhi : The government on Monday asserted that it was unequivocally committed to upholding the principles as laid down in the Constitution by...

दलितों विरोधी मनुवादी एजेंडा लागू नही होने देंगे: चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ़।Twocircles.net नियुक्तियों और प्रमोशन में आरक्षण के मुद्दे पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट के फैसले को लेकर दलितों में आक्रोश बढ़ता जा रहा है। दलित इसके...

Mayawati demands more security for UP polls

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Lucknow : Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati said Tuesday that free and fair polls were not possible in the state under the Samajwadi party...

TwoCircles.net to celebrate its 10 year anniversary with community awards

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net TwoCircles.net, the news website of the marginalized has achieved a major milestone this month by completing ten years of continuous operation. TCN...

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...

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...

Leaders urge Modi government to pass a bill against lynching

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New Delhi, (IANS): Leaders of different political parties on Wednesday extended their support to a draft bill against lynching prepared by a civil society organisation...

OBC quota in panchayats, civic agencies valid: Apex court

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday upheld the validity of the constitutional provision for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) reservation in panchayats and municipal agencies, including the post of a chairperson. The chairperson's post could not be equated with solitary posts in the context of public employment, the court said. However, the court said: "The upper ceiling of 50 percent vertical reservations in favour of Scheduled Castes (SCs), the Scheduled Tribes (STs) and OBCs should not be breached in the context of local self-government."

Sibal apologises after Ambedkar cartoon row rocks parliament

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By IANS,

Vijaykant seals poll deal with Vaiko, Left, Dalit party

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Chennai : Actor-turned-politician A. Vijaykant on Wednesday announced that his DMDK will contest the assembly elections in Tamil Nadu in alliance with Vaiko's MDMK,...

Reaching out to Bihar’s Mahadalits – by radio

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By Imran Khan, IANS,

Through the people’s lens: Modi’s development model so far

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Dr Rahul Pandey, Bobby Ramakant and Dr Sandeep Pandey, Citizen News Service - CNS Story of Modi’s development model so far: Cutting health and education...

Congress, NCP threaten to ban Ramdev in Maharashtra

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Mumbai: The Congress and NCP Saturday strongly protested against Baba Ramdev's comments on Rahul Gandhi, with both parties threatening to ban the yoga guru...

With Chandrashekhar in jail, Dalits of Saharanpur seek to rekindle struggle

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By Siddhant Mohan & Aas Mohammad Kaif, TwoCircles.net Bhim Army is trying to ensure that the fight for justice and equality continues even as its...

सामाजिक न्याय के मुद्दों पर पहली बार जारी घोषणापत्र

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TCN News लोकतंत्र की बुनियाद सामाजिक न्याय और आर्थिक बराबरी होती है। लेकिन इस दौर में आर्थिक-सामाजिक गैर बराबरी चरम पर पहुंच गई है। बाबा...

“Azad fights war of weak in a powerful way,” well-wishers of Bhim Army leader...

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Bhim Army Chief supremo Chandrashekhar Azad has been featured in TIME magazine’s annual list of 100 “emerging leaders who are shaping the future”. TwoCircles.net...

While SP fights, BJP prepares extensive roadmap for upcoming UP elections

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By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net The Samajwadi Party may be busy with its infighting, but it is clear that the BJP is doing all it...

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.

Haryana violence: Apex court orders Dalits’ protection

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Supreme Court Wednesday said courts cannot solve problems linked to social prejudices and conflicts, and directed Haryana to provide protection to the victims of caste violence in Mirchpur village in Hisar district. The apex court's vacation bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice C.K. Prasad said the failure to provide protection would be viewed seriously.

Dalit funds not diverted to CWG: Dikshit

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By IANS, New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Tuesday dismissed allegations by her Uttar Pradesh counterpart Mayawati that the city government had diverted funds meant for Dalit upliftment to the Commonwealth Games. "We have not diverted any funds from the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes welfare schemes for the Commonwealth Games," Dikshit told reporters here. Mayawati had Monday alleged that the Delhi government had diverted Rs.750 crore meant for Dalit welfare to the Oct 3-14 Games.

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...

Students protesting for Rohith Vemula detained in Delhi

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New Delhi : About 250-300 students, staging a demonstration here commemorating the death anniversary of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula, were on Tuesday detained when they...

Breaking Brahmin monopoly: Hindu temple to have women, lower-caste priests

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By Quaid Najmi, Solapur (Maharashtra) : Here's another traditional male bastion set to crumble. With a Supreme Court prod, the renowned 900-year old Vitthoba Temple...

Violence in Andhra as Kapus launch stir for quota

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Visakhapatnam: Violence broke out in Andhra Pradesh's East Godavari district on Sunday as thousands of protestors from Kapu caste set afire a train and...

यूपी की एक दलित महिला की विडंबना गाथा…

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net बघरा (मुज़फ़्फ़रनगर) : दो साल पहले एक दलित की कैंसर से मौत हो गई. श्रम विभाग ने उनकी पत्नी को...

A Bill to tackle identity based discrimination in educational institutions

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By TCN News: A National Convention ‘Towards Zero Discrimination in School Education’ was jointly organized by Swadhikar-National Dalit Movement for Justice (NDMJ-NCDHR), Centre for Social Equity and Inclusion (CSEI) and...

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...

वर्धा विश्वविद्यालय-पहले बिना कारण दलित-ओबीसी छात्रों को निष्कासित किया, अब निष्कासन लिया वापस

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By मीना कोटवाल, TwoCircles.net Photos by Chandan Saroj महाराष्ट्र का केन्द्रीय विश्वविद्यालय वर्धा में 9 अक्टूबर को एक कार्यक्रम किया गया था, जिसमें हिस्सा लेने वाले...

APCR ensures freedom for seven marginalised prisoners on Independence day

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By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Seven prisoners got back their freedom on the occasion of Independence Day this year through Association for protection of Civil Rights...

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...

Citizens’ Solidarity with Voices of Democracy

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TCN This is a statement of solidarity endorsed and signed by over 200 intellectuals, artists, academicians, lawyers, journalists, and students in support of the five...

‘Once passed, proper implementation of the amended SC/ST bill more important’, says former secretary...

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“NGOs and political parties claiming to work in the interest of SCs and STs must conduct programmes imparting awareness about the amendments made in...

For this Dalit artist, ‘art is integral part of her community’

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Dalit artist Shrujana Niranjani Shridhar sees in art the opportunity to tell the unadulterated story of her community. Musheera Ashraf of TwoCircles.net writes on...

Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani rejects invite to CPM programme in Kerala

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net Kozhikode: Kerala CPI (M) leadership was left red faced after Jignesh Mevani, Una agitation leader, rejected the party’s invitation to attend...

A plea to the Election Commission

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Election Commission should ban political parties that directly or indirectly organise communal riots and reap communal votes to win elections

Left parties demand recall of Hyderabad varsity vice chancellor

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Hyderabad : The Left parties on Monday staged a protest in front of Raj Bhavan here, demanding recall of University of Hyderabad Vice Chancellor...

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

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

National Commission for Minorities: A year of inaction

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Minorities Commission as a non-statutory body was set up in 1978. In the days following Babri Masjid demolition it was made a statutory body and in 1993 it came to be called National Commission for Minorities (NCM). Its main object is to safeguard the interest of minorities but its power is even less than the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, and National Human Rights Commission. Lacking any effective tool it is merely a spectator that can make some noise but not be part of the game.

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...

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,...

Sabarimala: All women face backlash, but the worst is being reserved for Dalit women

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By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net Several women tried to enter the Sabarimala temple in southern Kerala following the Supreme Court order allowing entry for all women...

Road work begins in Orissa industrial hub opposed by tribals

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar: Four years after 14 protesters were killed in police firing in Kalinga Nagar in Orissa's Jajpur district, the authorities Monday started construction for a common corridor road in an industrial area opposed by local tribals. About 25 platoons of police forces were deployed as the district administration started construction in Kalinga Nagar industrial area.

NHRC notice to Karnataka over ragging of Dalit student

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New Delhi : The National Human Rights Commission on Friday issued a notice to Karnataka over reports that a Dalit nursing student from Kerala...

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...

“हरियाणा में महादलित महिला होने के बजाय गाय होना ज़्यादा अच्छा है”: महादलित महिला...

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मनीषा मशाल भारत में यह एक कठिन समय चल रहा है, जिसमें देश में रह रहे हाशिए के समुदाय से जुड़े लोग ब्राह्मणवाद और प्रताड़ना...

For these girls living in Delhi’s slums, education is a dream fraught with violence,...

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By Suprakash Majumdar, TwoCircles.net The first thing Janaki does in the morning is to help her mother prepare food. Beside the chulha (a stove), covering her face...

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.