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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...

Violence-hit Saharanpur tense but under control: Official

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Lucknow, (IANS): A day after clashes between Dalits-Rajputs left one dead, the situation in a violence-hit village in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district remained tense...

15 leaders from different parties join BJP

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

CPI-M demands quota for SC, ST in private sector

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Visakhapatnam : The Communist Party of India-Marxist on Thursday demanded reservations for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the private sector and...

Conviction rate in SC, ST cases maximum in MP

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By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,

‘Voters or Citizens,’ Matua community hold key in West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021

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The Matua community, with 1.5 crore voters, has always been politically active in West Bengal. Amid political drama and family feuds with fiery statements,...

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.

Dalit killed for plucking two brinjals in Bihar village

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By IANS, Patna: A Dalit man was beaten to death for plucking two brinjals from a field belonging to a landowner of a higher caste in a village in Bihar, police said Wednesday.

Violence against Dalits in Bhima Koregaon a stark reminder of 1997 Ramabai Nagar atrocities

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By Daisy Katta, TwoCircles.net New Year’s eve was a time of joy and happiness everywhere, and Ramabai Nagar in Ghatkopar, Mumbai, was no different. But...

Caste on my back

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By Aishik Chanda for TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: “Jai Mahar” read one, “Jai Maratha” read another. Several autorickshaws of Greater Mumbai region display caste identities on the...

बनारस में गूगल सीईओ सुंदर पिचाई के ख़िलाफ़ मुक़दमा,किरकिरी के बाद क्लीन चिट,गायक ने...

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net वाराणसी के भेलूपुर थाने में गूगल के सीईओ सुंदर पिचाई के विरुद्ध मुक़दमा दर्ज किया है। यह मुक़दमा आपरधिक षड्यंत्र रचने और धमकाने...

BJP Dalit leaders to aggressively counter opposition onslaught on community

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New Delhi : The BJP has decided to aggressively counter the Opposition's onslaught over the recent string of atrocities against Dalits in various parts...

मिन्डा कम्पनी में सफ़ाई-कर्मियों की मौत का ज़िम्मेदार कौन?

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सुनील कुमार, TwoCircles.net के लिए गुरूग्राम (गुड़गांव) का पोस्टमार्टम हाउस ‘स्वच्छता दिवस’ के एक दिन पूर्व यानी 1 अक्टूबर, 2017 को लगभग शाम तीन बजे...

More than 50% Dalits landless, 40% of people displaced for ‘development’ are Adivasis, says...

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: Even as the NDA government completes three years in power amid tall claims of development, the India Exclusion...

‘मैं अंतिम सांस तक डेल्टा के इंसाफ़ के लिए संघर्ष करूंगा’ –राहुल गांधी

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नई दिल्ली : कांग्रेस के उपाध्य़क्ष राहुल गांधी आज डेल्टा मेघवाल के परिवार से मिलने बाड़मेर पहुंचे और डेल्टा के परिवार...

Saddened by Rohith Vemula’s death: Modi

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Lucknow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday broke his silence on the suicide of Dalit scholar from University of Hyderabad, Rohith Vemula, saying that...

Reservation for Dalit Muslims

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By M Naushad Ansari,

‘शिक्षा ही बहुजन समाज को एक नई दिशा दे सकती है’

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TwoCircles.net News Desk लखनऊ : दलित मुद्दों पर काम करने वाली भारतीय समन्वय संगठन ‘लक्ष्य’ की काकोरी टीम ने बाबा साहेब डॉ. भीमराव अम्बेडकर...

Gorakhpur infant tragedy: After months in jail, Dalit doctor Satish Kumar gets bail

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Dr Satish Kumar, one of accused in the tragedy at Baba Raghav Das Medical College, Gorakhpur in August 2017, was granted...

Why Dalit Assertion Is Growing in West Bengal’s Industrial Heartland

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Poonam Masih, TwoCircles.net Asansol (West Bengal): This year, for the first time, Ambedkar Jayanti was officially celebrated across West Bengal's underground coal-producing regions, particularly in Asansol,...

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...

Mayawati names old party loyalist Bhimrao Ambedkar as RS candidate

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Lucknow, (IANS): Laying to rest speculation over naming her brother Anand as the party's Rajya Sabha candidate, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on...

Dalit girl attacked for resisting rape, one held

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7 arrested in Telangana honour killing case

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Hyderabad/Patna, Sep 18 (IANS) Telangana Police on Tuesday said that they have arrested seven accused over the killing of a Dalit youth, who was...

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...

बहन मायावती की वापसी के साथ ही शब्बीरपुर में फिर बवाल, एक की हत्या,...

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCorcles.net सहारनपुर : बसपा सुप्रीमो मायावती के शब्बीरपुर पीड़ितों से मुलाक़ात कर लौटने के तुरंत बाद बड़गांव चन्दपुर मार्ग पर शब्बीरपुर से...

Kanhaiya’s grandfather moves court against two in Bihar

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Patna: JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar's grandfather on Tuesday moved a court in Bihar against two persons regarding rewards offered for chopping Kanhaiya's tongue...

पोस्ट-मैट्रीक छात्रवृति हेतु ऑनलाइन आवेदन की आज आख़िरी तारीख़, बढ़ाने की हो रही है...

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TwoCircles.net News Desk पटना : सरकार द्वारा छात्रों को पोस्ट मैट्रीक छात्रवृति (अनुसूचित जाति/अनुसूचित जनजाति) हेतु ऑनलाइन आवेदन की अंतिम तिथि 17 मार्च 2016 तक...

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...

Amnesty’s annual report criticizes India for ‘growing intolerance’

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: Amnesty International in its annual report released today has accused India of supporting a climate of intolerance by cracking...

Dalit ring draws controversy, designer says ‘ring aimed at creating awareness on plight of...

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By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Stella Simona is a Bangladeshi origin designer, who before starting her jewelry store was a model and a fashion photographer. The...

Three Dalit youths found murdered in Uttar Pradesh

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Maharashtra ministers visit Dalit victims of atrocities

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Mumbai : Two senior ministers Saturday visited the Dalit victims of recent atrocities against the community in the state - the honour killing of...

Rahul Gandhi’s Mandsaur visit raises political temperature

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Mandsaur/Bhopal, (IANS) Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh was calm on Thursday, two days after police shot dead five protesting farmers, but Congress Vice President Rahul...

सहारनपुर : पुलिस की एकतरफ़ा कार्यवाही से दलितों में रोष, लखनऊ में आन्दोलन की...

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter नई दिल्ली/सहारनपुर : उत्तर प्रदेश में सहारनपुर ज़िले के शब्बीरपुर गांव में शुक्रवार को हुए जातीय संघर्ष के बाद अब पुलिस की...

Delhi Assembly passes resolution against police ‘brutality’ on students

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New Delhi : Condemning police action against students seeking justice for Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula, the Delhi assembly on Wednesday passed a resolution demanding "immediate...

Jayalalithaa orders inquiry into police firing

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By IANS,

Mayawati inaugurates Rs.684 crore Dalit park

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By IANS,

Labour rights activist Shiv Kumar released from jail after 48 days, taken to hospital...

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Labour rights activist and President of Mazdoor Adhikar Manch (MAS) was released on March 4 after being incarcerated for 48 days in a case...

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.

Will Modi make it as the first low caste PM?

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

पंजाबः मज़हब से हटकर राजनीतिक होती दलित गायकी

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मनीषा भल्ला बीएसपी दा आ गया हाथी, बणेया जो सबना दा साथी, गरीबी अते गुलामी वाला, जेकर अंत कराणा जी, इस बार वोटां ते सबणे...

“Celebration of love and harvest amid Covid-19,” How Bhil tribes of Gujarat celebrate Holi

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The Bhil tribal belt of Gujarat celebrates Holi according to their rituals. The celebration of Holi is integral in the Bhil tribe as it...

NCDHR condemns “calculated” expulsion of three marginalised EFLU students

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By TCN News New Delhi: The National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) strongly condemned the “calculated expulsion” of three marginalised students from the English...

बिहार में दलित उत्पीड़न : शर्मसार कर देने वाली ये घटनाएं आख़िर कब तक?

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फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net दलितों पर अत्याचार कोई नई बात नहीं है. ये ऊंच-नीच का भेदभाव आज भी बदस्तूर जारी है. आज भी ऐसी घटनाएं हर...

Two Years of Modi Sarkar- Broken Promises: Sectarian Agenda

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By Ram Puniyani, The performance of the Modi Government during last two years has to be seen in the light of the promises made in...

टीसीएन 2021 : साल भर हम उठाते रहे वंचितों और पिछड़ों की आवाज़,पढ़िए...

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बीते वर्ष, 2021, में कई तरह की बदलती हुई राजनीतिक और सामाजिक गतिविधियां देखने को मिली। इस बदलती परिस्थिति में, हाशिए पर खड़े...

Owaisi to visit UP, will address rally in Kanpur if given permission

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By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter Lucknow: All India Majlis-E-Ittihadul Muslimeen President Asaduddin Owaisi will begin a three-day trip to Uttar Pradesh from Friday, August 5,...

Saharanpur on boil again: One dead, Thakurs burn 25 Dalit homes after clash

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Saharanpur district of western UP remains tense after Thakurs of the area tried to take a procession parade on Maharana Pratap...

Tension in Ghaziabad after Ambedkar statue vandalised

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Ghaziabad : The defiling of a statue of the chief architect of the Indian Constitution and Dalit icon Bhimrao Ambedkar here has led to...

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

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

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...

Hundreds of Mahadalits flee Bihar village after threats

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Patna: Their caste kinsman may be the Bihar chief minister but that brings no solace to hundreds of Mahadalits who fled their village in...

Targetted for being Dalit, tweets sacked Delhi minister

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New Delhi : Former Delhi Social Development Minister Sandeep Kumar tweeted on Thursday that he was being targetted as he was a Dalit and...

पूर्व कर्नल बनाम एडीएम विवाद: क्या दलित होने की सज़ा भुगत रहे है एडीएम...

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ | नॉएडा/मुज़फ्फरनगर मुजफ्फरनगर में शनिवार को दलितों ने जिलाधिकारी आवास पर प्रदर्शन किया,दलितों के कई संगठन बेहद नाराज थे.नाराजगी उत्तर प्रदेश के...

‘Kolkata police too is biased towards Muslims and Dalits’

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By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net,

Kerala to bring new law to ensure quota for SC/ST in aided colleges

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net Thiruvananthapuram: Taking note of the poor representation of teaching staff belonging to SC/ST sections in aided colleges in the...

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

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

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.

Courts in 20 UP districts hit by Ambedkar statue row

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Ghaziabad, (IANS): Work in courts in 20 districts of Uttar Pradesh remained suspended on Wednesday after the state bar association declared a strike over the...

आदिवासी बच्चों को उनकी जड़ों से अलग करते बस्तर के ये स्कूल

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net दंतेवाड़ा/सुकमा (छत्तीसगढ़) : बस्तर में चल रहे स्कूल ज्ञान के केंद्र होने के बजाय अज्ञान के कीड़े साबित होते जा रहे...

Bharatiya Dalit Church to be inaugurated on Oct 10

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Bharatiya Dalit Church (BDC), committed to preach good news to the socially outcaste and economically poor dalits, will be inaugurated tomorrow here.

Wardha Gandhi Ashram offers Una victims 25-year stay, land

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Ahmedabad : Mahatma Gandhi's Sevagram Ashram at Wardha has offered the Dalit victims of Una to shift to its premises in Maharashtra after they...

Can marginalised students in India dream of higher education in foreign universities?

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Students from marginalized communities in India face multiple hurdles in accessing education abroad. Aatika S | TwoCircles.net NEW DELHI — Tejas Harad, founder-editor of The Satyashodhak, an...

Dalit group to ‘spearhead reconstruction of Babri Masjid’

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By M. Reyaz, TwoCircles.net

JNUSU Election: No place for Jeetus and Salims?

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By Mahtab Alam,

Poor Dalit, Muslim families in Gujarat decry failure of Modi’s free ration scheme

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By Mahesh Trivedi, TwoCircles.net Gujarat: On 30 June, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that his government’s free ration scheme would benefit 800 million cash-strapped people...

Nine months after attack, Dalits of Samastipur wait for justice while accused roam freely

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

Time running out for Kashmiris

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Ref:- Invocation of Kashmiri martyrs , the only leverage left for Kashmir solution. Dear Sir This refers to the statement of Indian prime minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh at a function on Sunday in Jammu where he proposed (a)- the turning of LOC into a line of peace with free flow of ideas, material and people across the border and (b)- Land and water resources of entire J&K (including PAK) can be used jointly for the benefit of people of J&K living on both sides of LOC.

Kerala govt cancels aid to Dalit auto driver Chitralekha, Abu Dhabi organisation steps in

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, Twocircles.net Over the past decade or so, Chitralekha, a Dalit auto driver has been at the receiving end of abuse and threats...

Budget 2016: Schedule castes, tribes protest after Jaitley offers a penny, snatches a dollar

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By TCN Staff Reporter Delhi: In his Budget speech, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was at his eloquent best while allocating Rs 500 crore for scheduled...

Bhima Koregaon – One Year of Violence and Apathy

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By Atul Anand This Twocircles.net film recalls the violence near Bhima Koregaon memorial obelisk in Pune on January 1, 2018, left people shocked and angry....

दलित मुस्लिम जाट एकजुटता का संदेश दे गई महागठबंधन की पहली रैली

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ, Twocircles.net देवबंद- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAweqEVvo4Y&feature=youtu.be भायला गांव महागठबंधन रैली स्थल के एकदम करीब है. राजपूत बहुल इस गांव के सैकड़ों लोग रैली में पहुंचे थे. इसी गांव के राजेन्द्र...

Meira Kumar to attend IPU meet in Bangkok

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By IANS, New Delhi: A high-level Indian parliamentary delegation led by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar will leave for Bangkok Friday to attend 122nd assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to be held March 27-April 1. "The assembly will hold a general debate on the political, economic and social situation in the world with reference to the overall theme of 'Parliament at the heart of political reconciliation and good governance'," said a release issued by the Lok Sabha secretariat Thursday.

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

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

यूपी उपचुनाव में दलितों का रुख तय करेगा 2024 का भविष्य

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आकिल हुसैन। Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश में मैनपुरी लोकसभा सीट, रामपुर और खतौली विधानसभा सीट पर उपचुनाव हो रहें हैं। तीनों सीटों पर मुख्य मुकाबला बीजेपी...

9 months on, families evicted during building of RSS stalwart’s statue in Varanasi still...

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By Rohit Ghosh, TwoCircles.net Varanasi: Every season is harsh in Uttar Pradesh. Temperature touches the 45 degree Celsius mark in summers, while floods ravage the...

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

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

Hyderabad varsity vice chancellor goes on leave

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Hyderabad: University of Hyderabad Vice Chancellor P. Appa Rao, in the eye of the storm over the suicide of a Dalit research scholar, has...

Ahead of polls, residents of Mayawati’s adopted village say they feel cheated

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By Afroz Alam Sahil, Twocircles.net As you step out of Lucknow and move towards Malihabad, the mango capital of the state, commercial activities slow down...

Global activists demand a UN Declaration on elmination of Discrimination based on Work and...

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By TCN News The first Global Forum on Discrimination based on Work and Descent (DWD) was convened on 20-23 September in New York, which took...

Justice subverted: Dalit girl thrown into fire by upper caste men

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By Madhu Chandra,

एक बार फिर भीम आर्मी चीफ चन्द्रशेखर गिरफ्तार

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ-Twocircles.net देवबंद- भीम आर्मी चीफ चन्द्रशेखर आज़ाद को एक बार फिर गिरफ्तार किया गया है.उनके गिरफ्तारी देवबंद में की गई. गिरफ्तारी के तुरंत बाद चन्द्रशेखर की...

Dalit youth beaten, urinated upon in Bihar, says FIR

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Patna : Two Dalit youths were badly beaten and urinated upon by some men allegedly for stealing a motorcycle in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar,...

Seed companies involved in child labour in India, reveals study

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: In a shocking revelation, a study has pointed out the grim realities on the use of...

BJP showing fake love for Dalits, says BSP chief

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Lucknow : Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Tuesday accused the BJP of showing "fake love" for the Dalits. The BJP hit back,...

Meet the ‘Harijans’ in Assam Sweeping a Small Town for Generations

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Arshad Ahmed, TwoCircles.net When the clock ticks 5 a.m., 32-year-old Savita gives one more look in the mirror, fixes her bindi (a red dot on...

2700 crores for dalits but just 45 crores for Muslims in Mayawati’s budget

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By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net,

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...

Budget related dharna and rally of 29th February, 2008

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

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.

Bihar: Grand Alliance sweeps, opposition targets Modi

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Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish KumarÂ’s Grand Alliance scored a stunning win on Sunday in the assembly elections, dealing a major blow to the...

Congress team to inquire into Rajasthan caste violence

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New Delhi : The Congress on Monday said it has set up a fact-finding team to inquire into rising incidents of atrocities on Scheduled...

Here’s what explains Mayawati’s rout in UP election

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Many independent observers believe that Mayawati may be down but she is not out yet. Hina Khan | TwoCircles.net LUCKNOW — The rout of the Bahujan...

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...

Coalition of 100+ South Asian and American organizations oppose APPWW’s hate campaign

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TCN News More than 100 community organizations in the US have condemned Alliance for Persecuted Peoples Worldwide (APPWW) in a latest open statement over its...

Government is not anti-Dalit, anti-Muslim: Minister

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New Delhi, (IANS): Minister of State for Home Affairs Hansraj Ahir on Thursday said that incidents of lynching were not "general" and asked the states...

On Eid, an entire village mourns the loss of a son: A visit to...

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By Mehebub Sahana and Shahnawaz Ahmad Wani for Twocircles.net The recent lynching of Mohammed Junaid, a 16-year-old from Haryana, has not only shocked the Muslim...

Two women rewarded, 2,000 jailed on Women’s Day

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By IANS,

Towards an Organic unity of the marginalized: BAPSA and Fraternity Movement Form Alliance...

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By Hisham ul wahab P Towards an Organic Unity of the Marginalized: BAPSA and Fraternity Movement Form Alliance in JNUSU Elections The JNU student community will elect a...

मदरसों के पक्ष में मायावती ने उठाई आवाज़

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आकिल हुसैन। Twocircles.net बसपा प्रमुख मायावती उत्तर प्रदेश में अपनी खोई हुई ज़मीन मुस्लिम वोटरों के जरिए तलाशने में लगीं हैं। पिछले कुछ समय से...

चन्द्रशेखर रावण रिहा : “बहनजी मेरी बुआ,खून का रिश्ता, उनका विरोध नही करूँगा, भाजपा...

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ | सहारनपुर- भीम आर्मी के संस्थापक चन्द्रशेखर रावण को शुक्रवार सुबह 2:45 पर रिहा कर दिया सहारनपुर जेल से रिहा कर दिया...

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”

Campaign to provide clothes to Dalit Adivasi children in Maharashtra during Ramadan a huge...

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By Imran Inamdar, TwoCircles.net On May 24, TwoCircles.net published a story which showed a unique attempt to bring a smile to the faces of Dalit...

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...

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

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

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...

Dalit killing case shifted out of Haryana

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By IANS, New Delhi : In a blow to the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government, the Supreme Court Wednesday transferred the trail of those accused of attacking Dalits in Haryana to New Delhi.

Attacks against minorities, Dalits grew sharply in BJP-led regime: US report

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Washington, (IANS) : Religious tolerance has deteriorated and religious freedom violations have increased in India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's regime, a report by...

UK’s Dalit organizations urge Modi to act against BJP leaders named by Cobrapost in...

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By TwoCircles.Net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: Four prominent Dalit organisations from United Kingdom have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, expressing their dismay about the...

SP to vote against promotion quota bill

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Samajwadi Party Monday said it will vote against the bill to provide reservation in promotion for Dalits and tribals in government jobs.

DHRM for a new Dalit movement in Kerala

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent Thiruvananthapuram: The Dalit Human Rights Movement (DHRM) has decided to form a new Dalit movement by the time of the coming Assembly elections, reports say. The DHRM will also reportedly vote against the CPI (M) in the coming panchayat elections.

Munda stays ban on sale of OBCs’ land to upper castes

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By IANS,

भीम आर्मी का नया रंग : शादी के कार्ड पर चंद्रशेखर की तस्वीर और...

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : गुलशन की शादी हो रही है. 17 फ़रवरी को अनीता उनकी जीवनसंगिनी बन जाएंगी. 26 साल के गुलशन घड़कौली...

Ambedkar King Study Circle of USA observed Ambedkar Jayanti

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By TCN News As social distancing and public gathering restrictions are in order during the COVID19 lockdown, Dr Ambedkar’s 129th birthday commemorations were organized over...

Caste system like Taliban, needs to be discussed: Sharad Yadav

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New Delhi : Atrocities against Dalits have been increasing since Independence, and the caste system in India has a "Taliban-like attitude", Janata Dal-United leader...

Proud that my name is registered with Rohit Vemula’s struggle for caste-less society: A...

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Intro: I am one of the arrested students of UoH in connection with protest for justice for Rohith Vemula. We were arrested and...

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...

एसआईटी करेगी सहारनपुर के दंगों व जातीय संघर्ष की जांच, डीआईजी ने बना दी...

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter सहारनपुर : यूपी के ज़िला सहारनपुर में पिछले एक माह में हुए सभी 5 दंगों या जातीय संघर्षों की जांच एसआईटी को...

खेत से मूली उखाड़ने पर दलित की छाती में दाग दी गोली

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net शामली: जनपद के कांधला थानाक्षेत्र का एक गांव हुरमंजपुर दबंगों की गरीबों पर ज़ुल्म की दास्तान कह रहा है. यहां खेत...

भीम आर्मी प्रमुख चन्द्रशेखर को तत्काल रिहा किए जाने को लेकर दिल्ली में विरोध-प्रर्दशन

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TwoCircles.net News Desk नई दिल्ली : भीम आर्मी प्रमुख चन्द्रशेखर आज़ाद ‘रावण’ पर लगे राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा अधिनियम (एनएसए) को निरस्त करने एवं उनको तत्काल रिहा...

By leaking his conversations with Mayawati, Naseemuddin has not helped his own cause

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Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Before the UP Elections, the Samajwadi Party and its internal affairs rivalled primetime television shows. Every other day, one of the disgruntled...

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...

How BJP got its biggest win ever?

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

‘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...

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

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

Nearly 2 weeks after killing of Dalit girl in Bihar, only 2 accused arrested...

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The family of the slain 20-year-old Dalit girl from Bihar is demanding the arrest of all the accused, a speedy trial and compensation...

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...

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,...

‘Chalo TISS’ earns solidarity from across India over scholarship protests; strike enters day 14

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By Daisy Katta, TwoCircles.net The ‘Chalo TISS’ call given by the General Body of TISS students was highly successful, with more than 500 people all...

बिजनौर में बन रही है बसपा की दलित-मुस्लिम एकता की नर्सरी

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net बिजनौर: दलितों की देवी के तौर पर प्रचार पाने वाली मायावती ने अपना पहला चुनाव बिजनौर लोकसभा से लड़ा था. उनका...

Yeddyurappa loses cool at Dalit protesters in BJP rally

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By IANS, Davangere (Karnataka): Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa lost his cool on seeing a group of Dalit Sangarsh Samiti protesters at a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rally here Monday and lashed out at senior police officers in public for failing to prevent the protest. As the protesters tried to shout slogans when he was about to address the rally, an incensed Yeddyurappa summoned Superintendent of Police Sandeep Patil to the stage and shouted at him.

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...

Properties of seven murder accused attached in Bihar

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Patna : The properties of the seven accused who killed four Dalits for refusing to share fish caught by them in Bihar's Patna district,...

Gujarat law exam hit by reservation row

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By IANS,

No diversion of Dalit funds for CWG: Sandeep Dikshit

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By IANS, New Delhi : Contrary to an RTI reply, Congress MP Sandeep Dikshit Thursday said there was no diversion of funds meant for Dalits to Commonwealth Games projects, an issue that has raised a storm in parliament. "There is no question of diversion of funds," Dikshit told reporters outside parliament. The Congress MP from East Delhi is the son of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.

समस्तीपुर लाइव : ‘छोटी जातियों’ का समर्थन महागठबंधन को

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पहले चरण के मतदान से पूर्व बातचीत में रोसड़ा के दलितों ने दिए इशारे राजन झा, रोसड़ा, समस्तीपुर: दलितों के वोट की मदद से बिहार चुनाव...

Brandeis University’s conference on Caste discussed contemporary issues

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By Anusha Chaitanya for TwoCircles.net The three-day conference on Caste, Inequality and Economic Growth in South-Asia: Challenges of Tradition and Modernity was organized at Brandeis...

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.

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...

Nearly 500 Hindus convert to Buddhism in Bihar

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Patna : Nearly 500 Hindus, including women and children, converted to Buddhism Saturday in half a dozen villages in Bihar's Gaya district, officials said. All...

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...

“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...

Sunil Abhiman Awachar: An inimitable voice in Dalit poetry and painting in contemporary India

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Dr Sunil Abhiman Awachar is clearly an antithesis to discourse on contemporary Indian art. By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Dr. Sunil Abhiman Awachar is well known as a poet and painter, also an assistant professor with the Department of Marathi in University of Mumbai. Meanwhile, he is full time activist in dalit human rights movement. He has published four anthologies of poetry, all in Marathi, that include ‘Global vartamanachya kavita (2008)’ ‘Mi mahasattechya darashi katora gheun ubha rahanaar nahi,’ ‘Bravo! Fox minds of capitalist’ and ‘Poems of the occupied everything’.

No fees for girls upto higher secondary level in state schools, says J&K government

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Srinagar: In a significant move which will benefit thousands of girls studying in state run schools in Jammu and Kashmir,...

Mayawati calls BJP anti-Dalit

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Lucknow : Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati Thursday attacked the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre of...

Stand-up India to benefit 2.5 lakh SC/ST, women entrepreneurs

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New Delhi : The government here on Friday said the Stand-up India Scheme will benefit 2.5 lakh Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe members and women entrepreneurs. “The...

Dalits and Minorities demands inclusive Women Reservation

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By TCN Staff Reporter, New Delhi: Just 3 days before the 100th Anniversary International Women Day, various religious Minority and Dalit groups rejected the Women Reservation Bill in its present form and urged for an inclusive one. The proposed bill is likely to be presented in Parliament for passage on March 8, 2010, which is also 100th Anniversary International Women Day. The Union Cabinet has already given its nod.

In Maharashtra, a unique attempt to bring a smile to the faces of Dalit...

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By Imran Inamdar, TwoCircles.net Apart from fasting, the pious month of Ramadan is also seen as an ideal time to spread the messages and teachings...

Revisiting Babasaheb on India at 70: For Dalits, there has never been much to...

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net All photos by Daisy Katta August 15 has come and gone; delved into, reflected upon, and discussed at length. Yet, the familiar...