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Indian American Muslim Council organizes celebratory event in Florida; participate in protests against targeting of Dalits and minorities in the name of cow...

By Pradeep Singh, IANS, Sihi (Haryana) : Residents of a Dalit-dominated village near Gurgaon say they are being denied adequate power supply because they are from depressed communities.

By Amjad Suri and Mohammed Imteyaz Ahmed for Twocircles.net The Sarvasiksha Abhiyan (SSA) was introduced in 2000 to bridge the gap between the social...

By Waseem R S for TwoCircles.net On October 30, 2016, a solidarity meeting was organised by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Student Union demanding justice for...

By TCN News, In another gruesome case of caste atrocity, a Dalit boy, aged 8, lost his left hand after he was pushed towards a...

By IANS, Patna : Thirteen years after the Laxmanpur-Bathe massacre in which 58 Dalits were killed by upper caste men, families of the victims are hoping that justice will finally triumph with a Bihar court Wednesday slated to pronounce its verdict on the case. "We are at last hoping for justice," Balram Paswan, a relative of one of the victim's who was killed, said shortly before the Patna court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Vijay Prakash Mishra pronounces his verdict.

By Yogesh Maitreya, “With all my baggage gone I can travel light now, forging on deeper into forest” says Haruki Murakami in his Kafka on the Shore. The same feeling can be drawn as soon as one finishesreading ‘Delete Kelela Sarr Aakash’ (Entire deleted sky), the first poetry book by Vaibhav Chhaya. Vaibhav writes poetry in Marathi. And the forest of his poem is equally risky and beautiful, one who could see the life in the underbelly, would certainly remain unsettled after brooding into the forest of his poems.

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

With six MPs, the Lok Janshakti Party may not count for much in the 330-plus ruling NDA. But Abdul Khaliq, secretary general of LJP, is the first ally to speak out against ‘the unfettered hate being spewed’ against Muslims by ‘a long list of hate mongers’. The by-election results in Bihar and UP are being viewed as a vindication of the deep-rooted and strong secular credentials of the nation. As heartening to the secular devotees is the Prime Minister’s statement that Indian Muslims would live and die for the country. However, the fact that the PM has thought it necessary to underline the patriotism of Muslims is in itself deeply disturbing. Implicit in the statement is the frightening reality of how the Muslim is viewed in today’s India.

By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi It is an unfortunate fact that in a democracy nothing is achievable without united agitations. This time again the Muslim social and political leadership in India is failing to unite strongly against a very genuine demand and clear hypocrisy against them in guise of women empowerment.

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By Vidya Bhushan Rawat, It was around 11 am on August 8 when the ‘Bhagana Kand Dalit Sangharsh Samiti’ had called a meeting at...

By Parminder Singh Bariana , Hoshiarpur (Punjab):The failure of Punjab Police to provide security to a newly-married Dalit couple despite directions from the high court...

By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Amreli, Gujarat: Yusuf Ghaffar, a man in his 50s, sipped his tea, as he watched a dozen or so...

By IANS, Patna: Eight bodies have disappeared from a graveyard in a Bihar village in one night, scaring local residents. People of Belauri village in Purnia district, about 350 km from here, were stunned Friday when they found that eight bodies had disappeared from the Sauraghat Samsan graveyard overnight. "We found that eight graves were dug up and the bodies missing," villager Ramavatar Sada said. Sada said the graveyard was used by Dalits and other very poor people to bury their dead as they could afford costly cremations.

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Perumbavoor (Kerala) : Even as the rape and murder of a Dalit law student continued to rock the poll-bound state of Kerala, police on...

By TCN News, Geedam (Chattisgarh): Reports are emerging that Soni Sori, the adivasi leader from Bastar, was attacked by few unidentified men in Geedam, Chattisgarh....

Ref: - India to insist on formal launch of “United Democratic Nations�

Dear Sir

This refers to Indian media highlighted USA invitation given to India (to join US-led global alliance of democracies)  through statement of Condoleezza Rice (US Secretary of State) issued on Thursday by her at annual US Indian Business Council meeting where India was further ‘enlightened’ about the redundancy of Non Alignment Movement (NAM).

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

By Ram Puniyani, Kandhmal violence has been the most ghastly communal violence in the Adivasi areas in India. Close to two years after the violence the tragedy of the area continues, the victims of violence, the rehabilitation, the justice to victims, most of these are no where close to what they should be.

Vijayawada : Two Dalit brothers were stripped and thrashed by a group when they were skinning a dead cow in Andhra Prades's East Godavari...

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

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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.

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Mahtab Alam for Twocircles.net Dear Rohith, I am not sure how or whether this letter will ever reach you. However, after reading and rereading your heartbreaking...

By TCN News London: Casteism exists and flourishes not only in India but even in the Diaspora based in UK, where discrimination among Hindus and...

सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net नई दिल्ली- जेएनयू प्रकरण में बेहद उतार-चढ़ाव आए. इस मामले में उमर ख़ालिद और कन्हैया कुमार कई दिनों तक अखबार की सुर्ख़ियों में छाए रहे. लेकिन इस मामले में सबसे कम नाम जिस शख्स का सुना गया, वह नाम है अनिर्बन भट्टाचार्य का. दो दिनों पहले जेएनयू के एड ब्लॉक पर अनिर्बन से हमारी बात हुई. नीचे पढ़ें वह बातचीत.

By TCN News, The Indian American Muslim Council, an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India's pluralist and tolerant ethos today joined millions of Indians and...

By Dr. B. R. Natarajan

To quote Emperor Shah Jahan who made the Taj Mahal "The sight of this mansion creates sorrowing sighs and makes sun and moon shed tears from their eyes. In this world this edifice has been made to display, thereby, the Creator's glory."

"Let the splendor of the diamond, pearl and ruby vanish like the magic shimmer of the rainbow. Only let this one teardrop, the Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time" is what Nobel Prize winner Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore said about the Taj Mahal.

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By TCN NewsNew Delhi: The All India Christian Council (AICC) has appealed to the President of the United States, Mr. Barack Obama, to pay...

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

Hyderabad : Policemen, who cracked down on students protesting at University of Hyderabad, threatened to rape the women students, revealed an independent fact finding...

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.

Ref:- Human rights of women dependents of Kashmiri martyrs & massive participation in exports, hold the key.

Dear Sir

This refers to three day Intra Kashmir women's conference 'Connecting women across the LoC' organised by Center for Dialogue and Reconciliation New Delhi & Women's Studies Centres of J&K Universities, which concluded on November 18, at Srinagar.

By IANS, New Delhi: Nearly 150 people, mostly rights activists and members of NGOs, Tuesday protested the government's apathy towards the maintenance of a home for the mentally challenged, where several deaths and human rights violations were reported in the past month. They demanded action and even offered their help to the government.

By A Mirsab and Afroz Alam for TwoCircles.net, TwoCircles.net visited Nokha to investigate the story of Delta Meghwal. Within a couple of hours we...

By giving a befitting rebuke to the British Prime Minister over the alleged involvement of Indians in the so-called failed terrorist attack in England, the India Prime Minister, Dr. Man Mohan Singh deserves accolades for having expressed himself from the most dignified plank as the leader of the largest democracy of the world. What Dr. Singh stressed in the most unambiguous words was his strong objection to the Western mentality of intimidating the world through its hypothetical narratives of terorism.

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati has come down heavily against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA government for discriminating against Dalit icons such as Kanshi Ram while awarding Bharat Ratna to Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Madan Mohan Malviya.

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.

By Amit Kumar. TwoCircles.net The Dalit Asmita Yatra, organised in the wake of attacks on Dalits in Una, Gujarat by cow vigilantes might have...

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Kozhikode/Bengaluru : The Karnataka Police has arrested three female nursing students for allegedly ragging and forcing their junior, Aswathi K.P., to drink a disinfectant,...

New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Friday said that it would balance the right to equality with the right to freedom of religion...

By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net For the past eight years, November 26 has become synonymous with the terror attacks in Mumbai, but while no one...

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...

Text and video by Shiva Thorat A lot of us are taught as children that if you want to study, there are no barriers...

By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net Mumbai: The idea of working for your community does not necessarily mean that you have to be at the forefront...

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

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

By Nikhil M. Babu In the run-up to the 2014 general elections, then prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, while addressing a gathering of Dalits and...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will Friday hear a plea by yoga guru Baba Ramdev seeking the clubbing together of all cases against him...

New Delhi : Facing criticism from the opposition over the demolition of decades-old Ambedkar Bhavan in Mumbai, the government assured the Rajya Sabha on...

By TCN News, New Delhi: In order to address concerns over the current communal condition of the country in which weaker sections are being targeted...

New Delhi : The CPI-M on Sunday blamed the Narendra Modi government for the rising number of attacks by so-called cow vigilantes on Dalits...

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Ref:- Aspiring Vice-President can't denounce National Song.Dear SirThis refers to the statement of Rasheed Masood, the candidate supported by UNPA (the third front) for...

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नई दिल्ली: बाबरी मस्जिद विध्वंस की घटना को 24 वर्ष बीत गए हैं लेकिन दिल्ली में आज भी 6 दिसम्बर का...

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Lucknow: BSP chief Mayawati on Friday accused the Haryana government and its Chief Minister M.L. Khattar of being insensitive to the attacks on Dalits. She...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Bhubaneswar: National Confederation Dalit Adivasi Organisations (NACDAOR) has decided to train Dalits and Adivasis in the state of Odisha to...

By IANS, New Delhi: The Chhattisgarh government told the Supreme Court Tuesday that it has traced four more of the 12 tribals who were missing. The apex court was moved for a probe into the alleged killings of 10 villagers by security forces in the state's Dantewada district during anti-Maoist operations.

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

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...

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नोखा (राजस्थान) : डेल्टा मेघवाल कौन थी? उसमें ऐसा क्या था? जो सभी को अपनी ओर खींचता था? वो क्या कर...

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.

New Delhi: Amid demands by some opposition parties for releasing the data of the caste census, the government on Tuesday said there were over...

By IANS, Hisar (Haryana): Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Thursday paid a surprise visit to Mirchpur village in this Haryana district which was rocked by an arson attack on Dalit houses last week, in which two people were burnt alive. Accompanied by senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan, Rahul Gandhi reached Mirchpur village in an Innova car that was escorted by two other vehicles at around 12.30 p.m.

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

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, The whole country is soothing with sad demise of Rohith Vemula, 26, a research scholar from a Dalit community who was...

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

(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...

By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net Patna: A controversy is in offing on the issue of inclusion of Shaikh into OBC category in Bihar. Many backward caste groups, including those among Muslims in the state, have registered their protest with the State Commission for Backward Castes (SCBC) against attempts by Shaikh, an upper caste Muslim group, to get OBC status.

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New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said that all Dalit Bharatiya Janata Party MPs should resign to protest the assault...

By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net Kozhikode: Hardly a day after his candidature was announced, U C Raman made a beeline to Panakkad Syed Hyderali Shihab...