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Angry at slur, mourning Goa tribals invite cops to a drink

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By IANS,

उन्नाव प्रकरण में भ्रामक ट्वीट पर 8 के खिलाफ मुकदमा

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आकिल हुसैन। Twocircles.net उन्नाव के असोहा थाना क्षेत्र के बबुरहा गांव में बुधवार को घटित हुई घटना को लेकर ट्वीटर पर भ्रामक ट्वीट करके ग़लत...

Patna HC axes SC/ST quota in promotions

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Patna : The Patna High Court on Monday quashed Bihar's decision to provide reservation in promotions to the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) government employees. After...

Logic of women’s reservation

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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.

Untouchable in life, untouchable in death: Story of two dalit workers

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By Ravichandran Chakkiliyan, TwoCircles.net, Rs. 200,000 each for the lives of two- a Madiga and a Mangali. Kaleikuri Prasad's Poem 'Karma Bhuumilo' For whom do you search, for what saviours do you wait? If they poison you or burn you, or even if they strangle you with a rope No doctor shall testify for you, no court shall protect you All the laws and the courts promise illusory hope They’re only mirages for the common man (Translated by Kuffir Nalgundwar)

Bhagana Dalits get open death threats from Haryana Khap Panchayats for converting to Islam

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi : Death threats have started pouring in for protesting Bhagana Dalits by the Khap Panchayats...

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...

Anna Hazare’s Campaign against Corruption

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A Perspective from India’s North East By Madhu Chandra

In Gujarat, 95 of 100 suspects in crimes against Dalits acquitted

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By Nikhil M. Babu As violent protests continue in the Prime Minister’s home state of Gujarat over the flogging of Dalit youth by upper-caste Hindu...

Lawless laws leading to exclusion of marginalized: Professor Upendra Baxi

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By Lalita, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Ambedkar University, Delhi organized the 5th Dr B R Ambedkar Memorial Lecture on 5 March in India Islamic Cultural Centre. The lecture was delivered by Professor Upendra Baxi, eminent legal expert and scholar, on “Restoring ‘Title Deeds to Humanity’: Lawless Law, Living Death and the Insurgent Reason of Babasaheb Ambedkar”.

Contemporary Dalit Politics and Ambedkar’s Goal of Caste Annihilation

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By Ram Puniyani, On 28th Feb (2014) Ramvilas Paswan of Loktantantrik Jan Party joined the NDA alliance. Same Paswan had left the NDA twelve years ago with the beginning of Gujarat carnage, saying that with the violence in Gujarat he cannot be part of NDA. This time his son formulated the face saver when he said that Modi has received clean chit in the Gujarat carnage. Few days ago another dalit leader Udit Raj directly joined BJP, with the assurance of being given a ticket for forthcoming elections. In Maharashtra, Ramdas Athwaley of Republican Party of India had become part of NDA, and succeeded in being nominated for Rajya Sabha, Upper house of Parliament. There are many others dalits in the fold of BJP directly or in alliance with BJP to be in NDA, for pre poll alliance. Most of these leaders claim to be working on the path shown by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. Ambedkar was committed to annihilation of caste and was totally opposed to the concept of Hindu nationalism, as propounded by RSS-BJP.

The cruel irony of Human Rights Day

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By Abdullah Khan 10 December is internationally celebrated as the International Human Rights Day. In 1950, the United Nations declared 10 December as the International...

Dalits allege denial of water by upper castes

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By IANS, Ranchi : Dalits of a Jharkhand village allege that they have been denied water from handpumps and entry into a community hall by upper castes in Chatra district.

Christian Council welcomes St Stephens reservations for Dalit Christians

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ALL INDIA CHRISTIAN COUNCIL President: Dr. Joseph D'souza Secretary General: Dr. John Dayal PRESS STATEMENT NEW DELHI, 14 JUNE 2007 CHRISTIAN COUNCIL HAILS `HISTORIC' ST STEPHENS QUOTA FOR DALIT CHRISTIANS; WELCOME NEW CATHOLIC EDUCATION POLICY FOR MARGINALISED All India Christian Council president Dr Joseph D'souza and Secretary General Dr John Dayal have welcomed as 'historic' the move by the St Stephen's College to give preferential admissions to brilliant students from the Dalit Christian community in the prestigious institution of higher learning.

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

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

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...

Manjhi shares his bitter experience with JNU students

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By Mahmood Asim, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi is of the opinion that in the complicated and sophisticated game of politics, the race against prevalent casteism can be won only if people coming from non-elite background are united. Manjhi was speaking at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University on the topic of ‘Caste, Politics and Discrimination: Experiences of a Dalit Chief Minister’ at a programm organized by Dalit students’ body Birsa Ambedkar Phule Student Association (BAPSA).

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.

Maha dalit killings: Film industry faces to join demonstration in Mumbai

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: Social activists, common citizens and even some faces from the film industry are likely to participate in a demonstration march on Saturday in Mumbai to show solidarity with three dalit victims from Ahmednagar district.

क्या चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद यूपी के अगले चुनाव में मुख्यमंत्री के दावेदार हों सकते है?

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ , TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर। उत्तर प्रदेश की राजनीति एक बार फिर करवट ले रही है। पीएम मोदी, गृहमंत्री अमित शाह और सूबे के...

Dalit youth beaten to death in Bihar

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Patna, Sep 18 (IANS) A Dalit youth was bludgeoned to death by a mob on suspicion of theft in Bihar's Nawada district, police said...

Indian diaspora in London mark Republic Day with protests against Hindutva, attacks on Dalits...

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By M Ghazali Khan for TwoCircles.net Instead of hosting and participating in festivities, the UK-based Indian Diaspora marked the Republic Day by organising a protest...

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...

Dalit memorials will be set up ‘come what may’: Mayawati

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By IANS, Lucknow : Thumbing a nose at political opponents and others, a defiant Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati said she would "not buckle under pressure" and continue to set up parks and memorials to commemorate Dalit icons. "We have been constructing parks and memorials in the names of important Dalit and OBC (Other Backward Classes) personalities to give due respect to them," Mayawati told a gathering on Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar's birth anniversary.

Attack on Sarath has hidden agenda of breaking Dalit – Muslim unity

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By Kaneez Fathima, Ethnic cultures and their manifestations in the public sphere has become target for authoritarianism. BJP government under the leadership of Narendra Modi has been trying to efface the multiculturalism and secularism from the society. Fascist authoritarianism never tolerates the democratic and secular nature of the people’s constitution.

SC to hear challenge to amendment to SC/ST law from March 26

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New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would commence hearing from March 26 on a batch of petitions challenging...

Crime Records also prove rise in atrocities against SC/ST in Kerala

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, Twocircles.net Kozhikode: If statistics from National Crime Records Bureau are taken into consideration, it becomes clear Kerala has been...

Rahul’s special gesture for grassroot leaders

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By IANS,

Ambedkarite youths ensure peaceful protests in Mumbai, offer legal help to those arrested

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By Daisy Katta, TwoCircles.net Mumbai, which has been the epicentre of the Ambedkarite Movement in Maharashtra, saw a huge participation by students in the protests...

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...

From former sanitation worker to Deputy Mayor of Gaya, meet Comrade Chinta Devi

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62-year-old Chinta Devi belongs to the socially backward Dalit Manjhi caste and is the first ever Scheduled Caste (SC) person to become the...

आगामी दिल्ली विधानसभा चुनाव में अल्पसंख्यक

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By TwoCircles.Net staff reporter, नई दिल्ली: जैसे-जैसे दिल्ली में जल्द मुमकिन विधानसभा चुनाव की करीबी बढ़ती जा रही है, उसी तरह से तमाम राजनीतिक पार्टियों में सरगर्मी बढ़ती दिख रही है. आम आदमी पार्टी और कांग्रेस ने अपने-अपने उम्मीदवारों की पहली सूची हाल में ही जारी की है.

For 6 years, Deepa Mohanan has been fighting against casteist abuse in MG University,...

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This is the first in a three-part series of stories documenting caste discrimination against Dalit Bahujan Adivasi students at the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam,...

‘This Is Our Land, We Won’t Be Silenced’: Dalits Demand Land Rights After Arson,...

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MI Khan, TwoCircles.net Patna: In a harrowing display of community strife, Dalit victims in Bihar are pleading for “patta” (lease deeds) of land to resolve a...

Tribal women in Jhargram protest against Maoist-led group

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By IANS, Kolkata: Coming out in protest for the first time, thousands of tribal women in Maoist-affected Jhargram in West Bengal's West Midnapore district Friday held a demonstration against a rebel-led tribal group for forcing them to join their agitations. The women also formed a committee to resist the alleged torture of them by members of the Peoples' Committee Against Police Atrocities' (PCAPA).

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...

Bihar: Protests and politics over OBC status to “Ashraf Muslims”

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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.

There is No Substitute for Love and No Substitute for Taj Mahal

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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.

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

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

We must protest brutalisation of women: Mahasweta Devi

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By IANS,

Motorcycle diaries from UP; political lessons at every pitstop: A travelogue from the upcoming...

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By Rajan Pandey, Twocircles.net Armed with a press card and a laptop, I started from Delhi on a motorcycle around ten days ago to understand...

Dailt teenagers accused of theft tied with ropes, dragged

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By IANS, Lucknow : Two Dalit teenagers were assaulted, tied with ropes and then dragged for several meters by a group of villagers in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli district on charges of stealing a mobile phone kept in a vehicle, police said Monday. Ajai Nat (15) and Ravishankar Raidas (14), residents of Lachminia village, some 80 km from Lucknow, were accused of stealing a mobile phone Sunday evening from the truck of Balbir Singh, who has a transport business in the village.

मेरठ : दलित व जाट में खूनी संघर्ष, दलितों पर एकतरफ़ा कार्रवाई का आरोप

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net मेरठ : गंगानगर थाना क्षेत्र के रजपुरा में शुक्रवार की शाम बुग्गी टकराने को लेकर हुए मामूली विवाद ने शनिवार को...

Mayawati announces compensation for victims of Saharanpur anti-Dalit violence

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter BSP President Mayawati visited Saharanpur's Shabbirpur area and announced a compensation of Rs 50,000 for families whose houses were burnt down...

Atrocities on Dalits: Panel frowns on low conviction rates

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By IANS,

जेलों में 64 फ़ीसदी आबादी दलित व पिछड़ों की, अल्पसंख्यकों की संख्या भी बढ़ी...

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Afroz Alam Sahil, TwoCircles.net देश में जहां दलितों व पिछड़ों के ख़िलाफ़ अपराध में इज़ाफ़ा हुआ है, वहीं भारत के जेलों में भी...

Congress leader to meet Uttar Pradesh Dalit rape victim

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By IANS,

Dalits to rally for Bahujan Lokpal bill

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By IANS,

Goyal visits Dalit’s house, says government will implement reservation

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Bengaluru, (IANS): Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday visited a Dalit's house in south Bengaluru for breakfast and assured that the Narendra Modi...

SDPI alleges atrocities against dalits increased under new regime

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Nagpur : In the wake of increasingly changing political conditions in the country, the state unit of...

Dalits, tribals call for ‘hunkar’ rally against MP government

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Bhopal : Protesting against "harassment and exploitation" by the Madhya Pradesh government, Dalits and tribal groups under an umbrella organisation on Sunday called for...

Police file charge sheet in Kerala woman’s rape-murder case

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Kochi : The Kerala Police on Saturday filed a charge sheet in a local court in the brutal rape-murder of a 27-year-old Dalit law...

Young Dalit writer attacked, threatened in Karnataka

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Bengaluru: A young Dalit writer, who wrote a book against the caste system and Hinduism, was threatened by a few unidentified youth in Karnataka's...

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

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By IANS,

Education a constitutional right, says Adv Prakash Ambedkar; calls for rally to Vidhan Sabha...

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By Daisy Katta, TwoCircles.net As the students’ strike in Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) entered the 18th day, Advocate Prakash Ambedkar, National President, BHARIP...

India’s human rights situation is very serious, says UN Special Rapporteur

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UN Special Rapporteur asks India to free 16 Human Rights Defenders accused in Bhima-Koregaon case By TCN News The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), an advocacy...

दलितों की लड़ाई के अहम योद्धा मंगनाराम मेघवाल

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नोखा (राजस्थान)- इस शहर का एक गुमनाम लड़का जब यह बोलता है कि ‘मुझ जैसे गरीब के पास खोने के लिए...

Indian Americans condemn Saudi award for Prime Minister Modi

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Award defies logic given Modi’s record before and after taking office as Prime Minister By TCN News, Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), an advocacy...

Why hundreds of Dalits were unable to vote in Bhagana, Haryana

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By Inder Bisht, TwoCircles.net Initial reports from Haryana are indicating that neither the BJP nor the Congress is emerging as a clear winner in the...

FIR against IAS officer, 15 others in Bihar SC/ST scholarship scam

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Patna : An IAS officer, along with 15 other officials, was booked on Wednesday for alleged irregularities in disbursement of post-matric scholarship among...

Students, teachers, politicians at solidarity march for Vemula

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New Delhi : A solidarity march to condemn the "institutional killing" of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula on Tuesday drew support from thousands including...

Hundreds protest in Delhi against lynchings, communal divide

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New Delhi, (IANS): Hundreds of people, including film stars and social activists, on Wednesday gathered at Jantar Mantar here to protest against the recent incidents...

JD-U leader Uday Narain Choudhary quits party over ‘anti-Dalit’ policies

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Patna (IANS): Senior ruling JD-U leader Uday Narain Choudhary, a former Speaker of the Bihar Assembly, on Wednesday said he was quitting the ruling Janata Dal-United...

Amit Shah had food cooked by non-Dalits, says Telangana CM

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Hyderabad, (IANS): After former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, BJP President Amit Shah also seems to have landed in a controversy reportedly for eating...

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...

“Lives of many Muslims ruined due to false terror charges”

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By TCN News, Gulbarga (Karnataka): The lives of many Indians have been ruined and their youth snatched away in the name of terrorism even as Muslims, Tribals and Dalits are mostly implicated in false cases due to prejudiced police, politics, media, prosecution and the society in general, Ajit Sahi, well known political analyst and a journalist, said.

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

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

JNUSU Election: No place for Jeetus and Salims?

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By Mahtab Alam,

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

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

Only BSP can nominate a Dalit woman with no money or political legacy for...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter The year started with casteist trolls, it might just end in the Telangana state assembly for Sujatha Surepally. And for this...

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...

BSP in Maharashtra: Struggling to make a mark

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By Vanya Mehta, TwoCircles.net, After the polls closed in Nagpur, where competing factors include the Brahmin BJP candidate Nitin Gadkari and the incumbent Congress MP Vilas Muttemwar, around 30 male supporters of the Ambedkarite pro-Dalit Bahujan Samaj Party scattered around in groups at the BSP’s Nagpur office discussing the elections.

Around 1,700 Hindus convert to Buddhism in Bihar

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Patna : Around 1,700 Hindus in Bihar have embraced Buddhism citing the religion's emphaisis on unity and no discrimination among its followers, an official...

अब बलिया में दलितों पर हमला, 6 बुरी तरह घायल, 3 की हालत गंभीर

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TwoCircles.net News Desk बलिया : बलिया से सटे ग़ाज़ीपुर के सीमावर्ती गांव गोसलपुर में भाजपा व संघ परिवार से जुड़े ठाकुर ज़ाति के लोगों ने...

CPI-M announces 9 candidates for Tamil Nadu

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Chennai : The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Monday announced its candidates, including two women, for nine Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu. Releasing the...

“Snooping won’t deter us,” say Indian journalists, activists listed on Pegasus snoop list

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Jharkhand based freelance journalist Rupesh Kumar Singh, his wife Ipsa Satakshi, Ludhiana based journalist Jaspal Singh Heran and Chhattisgarh based activist Degree Prasad Chouhan...

Prominent US-based Dalit activists call for international support against caste-based violence

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TCN News India Civil Watch International has recently published an online series that was originally prepared by prominent African-American and Dalit activists as a protest against...

Haryana rape victim cremated, two more held

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By IANS, Narwana (Haryana) : Two more people were arrested for their alleged involvement in the gang-rape of a Dalit girl in Haryana's Jind district, police said Sunday.

Lalu Prasad demands Bharat Ratna for Dalit leader Kanshi Ram

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Patna (IANS): Describing Dalit leader Kanshi Ram as a great revolutionary on his birth anniversary, RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Thursday demanded the Bharat...

Attack on Soni Sori is an attempt to suppress the voice of voiceless: CLMC

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Condemning the attack on Adivasi activist Soni Sori, Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee (CLMC), a Hyderabad-based civil rights group has criticized...

Amnesty International asks Chattisgarh govt to investigate rape complaints of Adivasi women

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By TwoCircles.net, Staff Reporter Chhattisgarh: Two weeks after rapes and assaults were reported from Chhattisgarh while security forces were conducting anti-Maoist operations, Amnesty...

Dalit student’s suicide ‘murder of democracy’: Kejriwal

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New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday described the suicide of the Hyderabad Dalit student as "murder of democracy, social justice and...

Dalits still living in fear in Haryana village: Report

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By IANS, New Delhi : Days after a girl was raped and her father committed suicide, Dalit residents of Haryana's Dabra village are still afraid of letting their daughters go out.

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...

‘बहुजन समाज बच्चों के हाथ में झाड़ू नहीं, क़लम थमायें’

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TwoCircles.net News Desk वाराणसी : देश भर में दलित मुद्दों पर काम करने वाली लक्ष्य संस्था द्वारा आयोजित एक कार्यक्रम में लक्ष्य की वाराणसी टीम...

Rahul Gandhi flays Centre for ‘indifference’ to Dalits

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

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...

Taj city hosts biggest Dalit power show

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By Brij Khandelwal, IANS,

BJP’s defeat is seldom analyzed deeply

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By Soroor Ahmed, TwoCircles.net, When the Bharatiya Janata Party performed badly in the August 21 by-polls in Bihar––it could win only four out of 10 seats––it was attributed to the coming together of RJD, JD(U) and Congress. But how will the BJP explain losing three out of nine seats in prime minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat, three out of four in Rajasthan and eight out of 11 in Uttar Pradesh. After all the BJP-led alliance had won 124 out of 131 Lok Sabha seats in these three states in the parliamentary election held in May 2014.

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

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Three weeks after Una Rally, Dalits in Gujarat continue to pay for raising their...

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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...

बहराइच : प्रधान की मौत के लिए अब तक परिजन मांग रहे इंसाफ,मायावती ने...

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net बहराइच में लगभग 2 महीने पहले हुए एक नवनिर्वाचित दलित प्रधान की हत्या का मामला अब तुल पकड़ता जा रहा है। मृत...

Why the CAA and NRC are not good solutions to a country bleeding with...

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Dr Anis Ansari, IAS (Rtd) The unprecedented wave of nationwide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the...

Anti-caste crusader Kausalya remarries

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TCN News: Kausalya whose husband Shankar was brutally murdered in a honour killing by her own family in 2016 re- married Sakthi in a self-respect...

New Gujarat CM sets up SIT in Thangadh case

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Gandhinagar : Bowing to pressure, the Gujarat government has finally reopened the sensational case of the killing of three Dalit youths in alleged police...

A-G condemned for advice against SC status to Dalit Christians, Muslims

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Varanasi: Dalit-Muslim unity meet held to counter hate crimes in Uttar Pradesh

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter More than a dozen socio-political groups gathered in Varanasi’s Shastri Ghat on Sunday, February 18 to develop a consensus against the...

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

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

भारत के हिंदू राष्ट्र बनने में सबसे बड़ी बाधा डॉ. अम्बेडकर —अनिल चमड़िया

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TwoCircles.net News Desk बलिया : भाजपा डॉ. अम्बेडकर के विचारों की हत्या करने के लिए अभियान चला रही है. जिसमें दलित समाज से आने वाले...

Bihar court acquits 24 accused in 1999 Dalit massacre

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Patna : Citing lack of evidence, a Bihar court Tuesday acquitted 24 people of the 1999 massacre of 22 Dalits, a government lawyer said. Additional...

Muslims would do well to take lessons from the Dalit agitation

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By Aijaz Zaka Syed for Twocircles.net Since the change of guard in India two years ago, it has been one hell of a ride...

Congress supports NCSC on Dalit education issue

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

‘Cow Holy, Dalit Unholy?’: Ambedkar group raises slogan during protest rallies in USA

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BY TCN News, Detroit: Giving a global voice to the ongoing protests against the caste atrocities committed in India against Dalits, the Ambedkar Association...

Bihar liquor ban should be ‘participatory’, not agenda: Experts

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By Bhavana Akella and Sushil Kumar New Delhi : Bihar on Thursday joined the states that have banned liquor, with newly elected Chief Minister...

Aaghaz Foundation awards second Rohith Vemula memorial scholarship to female student from Gorakhpur

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Lucknow: An economically weak female student from Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's constituency has won the second Rohith Vemula Memorial...

Ambedkar Jayanti celebrated; Dalits stage sit-in

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By 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...

In this Gujarat town, no place to bury dead as high-caste residents flood Dalit...

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By Mahesh Trivedi, TwoCircles.net Gujarat: Dalits in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s wealthy state of Gujarat are named and shamed during their entire lives but, for...

RTI yet to reach Orissa’s tribals, Dalits

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No change in condition of Dalits under Mayawati: Uma Bharti

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Pansare murder suspect knew Goa blast mastermind: Police

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Panaji: Hindu right-wing outfit Sanatan Sanstha member Rudra Patil, a suspect in leftist Govind Pansare's murder, was in regular touch with the mastermind of...

Labourer killed in Agra over a mere Rs.100

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Agra : An unskilled labourer was killed by the grandson of a retired army Major in the Katra Wazir Khan locality here late Tuesday...

Kishor Kharat appointed as CEO and MD of IDBI bank

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By Yogesh Maitreya, Twocircles.net, Mumbai: Kishor Kharat has been appointed as the CEO and MD of IDBI Bank. The announcement was made on August 14,...

” Terrorism is the desperate action of vengeance by the oppressed against the oppressor...

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" Terrorism is the desperate action of vengeance by the oppressed against the oppressor when the world has closed all the doors of justice and fairplay." 'Dr. Mustafa Kamal Sherwani,LL.D.' ----------------------------------------------------- Ever since the inception, 'homicidal violence', has been an integral component of the humanity.Whatever must have been the dimension, genesis or reason of this violence, the 'humans' invariably are the victims at the hands of the fellow humans. 'Wars', 'invasions''murders' 'communal conflagrations' 'insurgency' 'rebellion'

Delhi HC to hear another sedition plea against Kanhaiya

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New Delhi: A petition was filed in the Delhi High Court on Tuesday seeking action against JNU Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar on a...

Delhi to increase loan amount for minorities, Dalits

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By IANS,

Struggle against caste-based discrimination comes to the US

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By TwoCircles.net staff reporter Washington, DC: The struggle against caste-based discrimination practiced in South Asia has come to the shores of the United States with...

AIC files amicus curie after Indian worker faces caste discrimination by a major tech...

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Commenting on the case, Ambedkar International Center (AIC) said that American workplaces must be caste-free zones. TCN News A Washington DC based organization Ambedkar International Center...

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

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

Lalu blames Modi, RSS for violence in name of cow protection

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Patna : RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Saturday blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his BJP and the RSS for the hatred and violence across...

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...

Mayawati: Will her garland turn into noose?

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By Amulya Ganguli, IANS, The apparently bizarre nature of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's politics can be understood by remembering that she is driven by an intense desire to make a mark in politics and, moreover, to do so in a manner which she believes will impress the core group of her supporters, the Dalits. As a newcomer in politics and that too from a depressed community, she has had to build her career from scratch, as it were, without the help of an established party or an influential social network. Hence her unconventional ways.

Will take legal action against two CPI-M leaders: Kerala woman

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Kannur (Kerala) : A Dalit woman Anjana who, along with her elder sister, was arrested on charge of trespassing a CPI-M office in Thalaserry...

Students refuse food cooked by Dalits, principal suspended

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By IANS, Lucknow : The principal of a government-run school in Uttar Pradesh's Ramabai Nagar district was suspended for inaction and negligence after students refused to eat the midday meal prepared by two Dalit cooks, officials said Friday. A probe has also been initiated against Jasapur Primary School principal Maan Singh and district education officials, including senior official Anil Rawat, as they knew that several upper-caste students of the school were not eating the meal prepared by the Dalit women.

To remember violence against Dalits & Christian Adivasis, NSF to commemorate Kandhamal Day on...

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The National Solidarity Forum (NSF) on August 25 will remember the victims of targeted violence against Christian Adivasis and Dalits that occurred in Odisha...

BJP government muzzling voice of poor: Rahul Gandhi

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New Delhi : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused the Narendra Modi government of muzzling the voice of the poor, tribals and...

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

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

BSP has cheated Dalits: BJP

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Lok Sabha begins debate on atrocities against Dalits

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New Delhi : The Lok Sabha on Thursday began general discussion on the "atrocities against Dalits" in the country under Rule 193. Communist Party of...

For Asit Sapkale, music is synonymous with resistance

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By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net 'Music for a cause' has been used, and abused by artists so often that one cannot help but become a little...

Activism meets hacktivism for Dalit History Month

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net, Cambridge, Massachusetts: There is nothing new with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and hacks but what was different about the hackathon last Sunday was that it was led by a group of Dalit activists who were hacking away at Wikipedia to add information about Dalit history.

Bhopali Kids Drive Home their Demands to PM

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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...

सहारनपुर : डीजीपी सुलखान सिंह ने सर्किट हाऊस में लिया जायज़ा, घटनास्थल पर नहीं...

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

The untold story behind the Sabarmati riverfront

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By Vanya Mehta, TwoCircles.net, The Sabarmati riverfront, for Ahmedabad residents, is a welcomed respite of clean walkways and greenery. Young middle class teenagers safely venture out with their friends in the evening to enjoy the pleasant views of the river, watching the riverfront light up. The elderly take their morning walks nearby adolescent trees, before the heat settles in for the day. Gujarati tourism, boasted by Chief Minister and BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, is given a further facelift by the presence of this cultural landmark that stretches 11 kilometers across the length of the Sabarmati River.

हाथरस में गेंगरेप आरोपियों के पक्ष में दबंगो की पंचायत,बढ़ रहा है जातीय तनाव

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मोहम्मद आसिम Twocircles.net के लिए हाथरस गेंगरेप में एक बेहद चौकाने वाला घटनाक्रम चल रहा है। इस मामले को जातीय रंग दिए जाने का षड्यंत्र...

Ambedkar Foundation appoints AMU prof. to manage Urdu translation of Ambedkar writings

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By TCN News, Aligarh: Professor Mohammad Asim Siddiqui from the Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has been appointed as the managing editor...

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

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

Punia files papers as Congress candidate for RS polls

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

उत्तर प्रदेश मे दलितों और महिलाओं के विरुद्ध बढ़ गए अपराध,कानून व्यवस्था पर संगीन...

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ़ । Twocircles.net इन दिनों उत्तर प्रदेश में दलित उत्पीड़न और महिलाओं से जुड़े आपराधिक मामले लगातार बढ़ रहे हैं और आज़मगढ़ से लेकर...

Already 50% communist India needs new monetary regime

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Ref:- Jurisdictionally confused India will have to adopt genuine federalism.

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Amidst the hullabaloo of last week's Indian share market crises (where in the face of allegedly ailing US economy, SENSEX again crashed heavily with attended heart burns in secondary market and primary market also faced problems as the IPO of reputed companies were either withdrawn or caused heavy losses to investors) the people have generally ignored a very important & unfortunate development i.e. last week's media coverage of :-

Why Indian tribes need more opportunities to ‘Make (a living) in India’ (Human Interest...

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By Bhavana Akella Jamshedpur : Sumanti Bhagat, a petite 30-year-old Oraon tribal woman, famous among her tribe for her paintings, uses some sophisticated techniques...

A Portrait of the Indian as a Young Dalit Girl: Part 4 – The...

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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...

Nitish, legislators reach Delhi; Manjhi announces quotas

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Patna/New Delhi : Aiming to put pressure on Bihar Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi for inviting him to form the next government in the state,...

Kis Kis Ko Qaid Karoge: Delhi to witness a protest against arrest of Dalit...

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By TCN News: We are living in strange times where speaking out the truth, demanding your rights, standing up against injustices and atrocities are seen...

Centre isolating Hindus, says Mamata

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Kolkata : In a sharp attack on the Narendra Modi-led central government over the attacks on Dalits in Gujarat by cow protection vigilantes,...

Swami Agnivesh attacked in Bhopal

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By TCN News Mumbai: All India Secular Forum (AISF) has strongly condemned the attack on Swami Agnivesh by communal forces in a meeting organized by Garima Abhiyan in Bhopal on Friday.

Another Dalit girl alleges rape in Haryana

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By IANS, Chandigarh : Another Dalit girl in Haryana has alleged that she was gang-raped by two youths, police said Wednesday.

‘Police torture to withdraw candidature’ – DHRM complaint to Election Commission

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Untouchability cuts across regions and religions in India

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net, Waltham, Massachusetts: Two-day symposium on the Annihilation of Caste: The Unfinished Legacy of Dr B.R. Ambedkar concluded here on Sunday. The symposium was organized by the Center for Global Development and Sustainability in Brandeis University. Symposium saw participation by a number of Indian and American academicians and Dalit activists and sympathizers with Dalit cause.