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Dalits still converting to Buddhism, but at a dwindling rate

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By Manu Moudgil Around 180 Dalit families converted to Buddhism after caste violence in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh in May 2017. Bhim Army, the...

Adivasi girl in Kerala college branded mentally ill; ostracised for speaking against discrimination

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, Twocircles.net It is no secret that students from the marginalised communities have been at the receiving end of casteist abuse across the...

Caste or Creed? Dalit Christian Identity Sparks Reservation Row in Karnataka Census

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TCN News Desk Bengaluru: Identity of Dalit Christians has become a hotly debated and controversial issue amid the ongoing census for internal reservation of Scheduled...

TCN Interview: “My purpose as a filmmaker is to bring stories of marginalised into...

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In this interview with TwoCircles.net, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Somnath Waghmare talks about the production of films and the social landscape that constitutes film-making...

“His head was blooming like a lotus,” recalls mother of slain 9-year-old Dalit boy...

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By Aparajita Ghosh, TwoCircles.net Mumbai: “His head was blooming just like a lotus”, recalls Mangesh Shivsharan’s mother, who collected parts of his nine-year-old son’s brain,...

Tension, Dalits’ migration in Haryana village: CM sends minister

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Chandigarh, (IANS): The migration of Dalit families from a Haryana village due to tension in the wake of stone-pelting over 'ghurchari' was raised in...

A letter to NHRC

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

No ‘Achhe Din’ for drought hit Maharashtra farmers even in Modi era

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By A. Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: Maharashtra farmers are continuing to commit suicide due to drought, unseasonal rains and hailstorm damaged crops in thousands of...

Polimer TV’s coverage of Akshay Dev’s suicide shows how lives of trans-men are reduced...

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By Charupriyan for TwoCircles.net Translation by Uma Murugan This piece is being written in condemnation of the deeply transphobic and unethical journalistic coverage by Polimer Television,...

Two Dalits thrashed for refusing to clear carcass

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Rajkot : A group of self-styled cow vigilantes thrashed two Dalits in a village in Gujarat's Saurashtra region for allegedly refusing to dispose the...

California textbooks: new battleground for Hindutva groups

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By TCN News Every six years, the California Board of Education reviews its History and Social Science frameworks in a multi-year series of public hearings....

Call for “Chalo HCU” by Dalit Organisations on Rohit Vemula’s death anniversary

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TCN News Hyderabad: Several Dalit organisations in Hyderabad have given a call for “ Chalo HCU” to protest against the demolition of the Velivada this month...

Opportunity for Muslims to stop injustice by Hindu majority Indian State.

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Ref: - Muslims to come in main stream in the interest of SAARC also.

Dear Sir

Despite constitutional-legal protections, Muslim community for no apparent reason has been behaving so meekly & submissively in Independent India as if they do not have any constitutional-legal / political rights in India.

Without going into much detail, the following two major instances should be enough to support this view:-

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...

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

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

Rape Raj: Shrouded in Shadow

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By Shahnaz Islam, TwoCircles.net A frenzied attack or bouts of insanity; “rape is rape”! Every 30 minutes one rape is committed in India. A woman...

In murder of Dalit man in Rajasthan, caste atrocities surface despite lockdown

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In spite of the ongoing country wide lockdown in India, enforced by the government to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, caste based violence reared its...

जेएनयू विवाद: भूख हड़ताल से आगे का रास्ता

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फहमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net दिल्ली: जवाहरलाल नेहरू में चल रहा विवाद अब पूरे नए फलक पर आ चुका है. राष्ट्रद्रोह और देशविरोधी कार्यक्रमों के मामले में...

8 मार्च को देश भर में गिरफ़्तारी देगी भीम आर्मी, चंद्रशेखर ने जेल से...

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : भीम आर्मी ने अपने सुप्रीमो चंद्रशेखर रावण की रिहाई को लेकर अब सख़्त फैसले लेने शुरू कर दिए...

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...

Nine people sent to jail for burning houses in Kandhamal

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By IANS,

Government gets 3 weeks to explain why no OBC census

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By IANS, New Delhi: The central government Monday assured the Supreme Court it would respond within three weeks to a public interest lawsuit that seeks a separate headcount of people belonging to backward classes. The fresh lawsuit for enumeration of people of other backward classes (OBC) came up for hearing before a bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice Deepak Verma. Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam pleaded before the court that it should wait for three weeks for the government reply before issuing a notice.

I got Rajya Sabha seat for Athawale: Uddhav

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Mumbai : Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray Monday made an embarrassing revelation here that he had personally intervened to secure a Rajya Sabha seat...

Gangrapes, murders and broken busts of Babasaheb: How Jind in Haryana has become a...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Several stories are coming out Jind related to how the state has been failing Dalits in the region. On Jan 18,...

दलित समाज में बढ़ी सामाजिक जागरूकता : लक्ष्य

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TCN News, दलित-बहुजन समाज में लक्ष्य द्वारा सामाजिक जागरूकता का अभियान तेजी के साथ आगे बढ़ रहा है। जहाँ दलित समाज की महिलाओं द्वारा इसे...

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...

Uddhav trying to split RPI: Athawale

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Mumbai : Grappling with an intra-party controversy over his decision to ally with the BJP, Republican Party of India (A) President Ramdas Athawale Tuesday...

Village adopted by BJP MP Kaushal Kishore is a far cry from a ‘model...

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By Afroz Alam Sahil, Twocircles.net Auntgarhi Saura/Malihabad: The BJP, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have repeatedly said in their election campaigns that if BJP is...

Five bodies found missing from Bihar graveyard

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Patna : In a bizarre incident, miscreants have dug out five bodies from a graveyard in Bihar’s Purnea district, police said Wednesday. Purnea superintendent of...

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,...

Multi-crore SC scholarships racket unearthed in Uttar Pradesh

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By Sharat Pradhan, IANS, Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has unearthed a multi-crore racket in disbursement of scholarships to Scheduled Caste students in educational institutions in the state. The racket involves hundreds of engineering, medical, dental and management colleges that have mushroomed over the past few years in several parts of the state.

दलित युवक के मूँछ रखने पर दबंगो का हमला

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net गुजरात के अहमदाबाद में लंबी मूंछें रखने पर एक दलित युवक पर हमले का मामला सामने आया है। बताया जा रहा है हमले...

कलम की ताक़त को जिंदगी की धार बना रहे हैं दलित युवक

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ| नॉएडा/सहारनपुर/मुजफ्फरनगर -TwoCircles.net 9 मई 2017 को सहारनपुर में शब्बीरपुर हिंसा के विरोध में सड़क पर उतरी भीम आर्मी के उग्र प्रदर्शन के...

Intra Kashmir women activists will achieve nothing by merely emulating their male counterparts

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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.

BSP calls Congress anti-Dalit

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By IANS,

A critique to “Caste on my back”

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(This is a rejoinder to an article published on November 30 on TwoCircles.net titled caste on my back, written by Aishik Chanda.) By Yogesh Maitreya, Gopal Guru described that “Indian social science represents a pernicious divides between theoretical Brahmins and empirical Shudras”. Now this divide does not only limit to the social-sciences texts when it discusses the dalits lives through Brahmin-imagination. This divide has an inculcation factor which transmits into other upper castes writers than Brahmins.

Dalits stage protest against Anna Hazare’s Jan Lokpal

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By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net,

Reduction in scholarship allocation for Dalit students a major concern, shows that Dalits, Adivasis...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter The Union Budget presented today by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley received sharp criticism from the National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights...

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...

Vidya Bhushan and Thenmozhi honored by Ambedkar Association of North America

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By TCN News, New York: In a three day celebration of Buddha Jayanti-Vesak Day and 125th Birth Anniversary of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Dr....

Civility against Caste: Dalit Politics and Citizenship in Western India

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Title: Civility against Caste: Dalit Politics and Citizenship in Western India Author: Prof. Suryakant Waghmore Publisher: Sage India Year: January, 2014 Review by: Yogesh Maitreya for TwoCircles.net, Civility is the least discussed discourse in India. In post-constitutional Indian society, the idea of civility has formed a binary: on one hand, ‘civil society’ that has been propagated by media and resources which are dominated and owned by Brahmin-Bania associations and on the other hand, the civility which has been practice by NGOs and political organisations led by Dalits. The latter had started with the core motive of annihilation of caste and, found its genesis in the struggles of Mahatma Fule and Dr. B.R.Ambedkar in Maharashtra. The idea of civility, practiced by Dalit NGOs and political groups, is contrary to the idea of civility which Brahmin-Bania possess and propagate in India, simply because idea of civility practiced by Dalits aims at annihilation of caste; precisely, Dalit civility is the ‘Civility against Caste’.

Uttar Pradesh: 17 booked after clash between police and Dalits in Hathras

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The clash between police Dalits and police took place after idols and pictures of Hindu Gods were allegedly removed at a religious function...

Reaching out to Bihar’s Mahadalits – by radio

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By Imran Khan, IANS,

First ever Dalit Film Festival to be held in New York in February

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By TCN News For the very first time, a Dalit Festival is going to be held in New York on February 23 and 24 organised by...

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...

यूपी में दलित किशोरी की बलात्कार के बाद हत्या, दो गिरफ्तार

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.Net उत्तर प्रदेश के लखीमपुर खीरी में बेहद दरिन्दगी का एक मामला सामने आया है। यहां पकरिया गांव में दलित समुदाय की एक नाबालिग़...

ज़मानत के तुरंत बाद चन्द्रशेखर ‘रावण’ पर लगा रासुका

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter सहारनपुर : गुरुवार को भीम आर्मी के सुप्रीमो चन्द्रशेखर आज़ाद ‘रावण’ को इलाहाबाद हाईकोर्ट ने ज़मानत दी थी, इधर आज उन पर...

Tension in Haryana’s Hisar after Dalit-Jat spat

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By IANS, Hisar : Tension prevailed in the Surya Nagar area of this Haryana district Tuesday after stray incidents of violence following a dispute between the members of the Dalit and Jat communities, police said. "Yesterday (Monday) night a buffalo, belonging to a member of Dalit community, collided with a vehicle that was owned by a Jat youth. At that time there were some heated arguments but the situation was somehow controlled," a police official said.

In Sultanpur, upper-caste attack on Dalit family leaves one dead, 3 injured

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter After a few calm days in Uttar Pradesh, caste violence has now engulfed Sultanpur in Eastern UP. Ramnathpur village of Sultanpur had...

Allocate more funds for Scheduled Castes Sub-Plan: CPIM to Jaitley

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By TCN News New Delhi: K. Varadharajan, Member, Polit Bureau of Communist Party of India (Marxist) has written to Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister requesting more...

Dalit agitation forces Gujarat to set up atrocity courts

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Ahmedabad : The Gujarat government on Thursday announced setting up of special courts in 16 districts of the state to handle cases related to...

Retired Generals failed to analyze current disenchantment of Indian youth with armed forces

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Ref: Irrelevancy of martial element the main problem and the only solution is, to make human rights the martial jurisdiction. Dear Sir The...

Main accused arrested in Dalit girl attack

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By IANS, Fatehpur (Uttar Pradesh) : The main accused has been arrested in the brutal attack on a teenaged Dalit girl who was maimed for resisting rape, police said Monday.

A temple where upper castes bow to Dalits

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By Asit Srivastava, IANS, Lucknow : Stories of socially marginalised people not being allowed into places of worship are common in India. In such a scenario, a Dalit family presiding over an Uttar Pradesh temple for ages is nothing short of exemplary. It's only Dalits who have been priests of the Kali Mata temple, dedicated to goddess Durga, in Lakhna town in Etawah, some 300 km from Lucknow, ever since the shrine came up around 200 years ago.

Ramdev says ‘honeymoon’ remark misinterpreted, complaint filed

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New Delhi/Lucknow: A day after his comment on Rahul Gandhi visiting Dalit homes for his "honeymoon" sparked outrage, Baba Ramdev Saturday apologised and said...

सवर्ण छात्रों को दलित भोजन माता से हुई नाराजग़ी, नौकरी खत्म !

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जिब्रानउद्दीन।Twocircles.net देवों की भूमि कही जाने वाले उत्तराखंड में एक दलित समाज से आने वाली एक भोजन माता को सिर्फ इसलिए हटा दिया...

Torture is one of the most common forms of human rights violations

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By Justice K. G. Balakrishnan

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...

दलित हत्याओं के खिलाफ़ जंतर-मंतर पर प्रदर्शन

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

JNU gets solidarity from American University of Beirut

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Members and affiliates of the American University of Beirut (AUB) have issued statement in support of students and faculty at...

Glorifying self: Modi’s gimmick of washing feet of sanitary workers

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By Ram Puniyani Gimmicks are a part of Modi's style of politics. Rather they form the core of his strategies. His act of washing the feet...

In Vaishali ‘birthplace of democracy’ parties pinning hope on caste equations

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By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, Sahebganj/Vaishali: At a rally in Sahebganj in Muzaffarpur District (under Viashali Constituency) Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) Supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav arrived almost two hours late that originally scheduled time of 3 PM (normal for all leaders in election season with hectic schedule). His supporters though braved the scorching Sun taking refuge in water-melon and shadow of tree, but waited to listen to their leader.

Dalit journalist from Gujarat returns award over anti-Dalit policies of state government

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Sunil Jadav, a veteran Dalit journalist from Gujarat, has decided to return the award conferred upon him by the Gujarat government...

RSS-BJP want to end reservation in the country: Nitish Kumar

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Patna: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) want to end reservation in the country, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar...

Hooliganism in the Fine Arts faculty and entry of police in University Campus

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To, The Vice Chancellor, The M.S. University of Baroda, Baroda. Sir,

Kanhaiya Kumar, other leaders call for ‘non-cooperation movement’ against CAB and NRC in Kolkata...

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By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net The streets of Kolkata witnessed a massive protest march against the Centre’s move on the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) 2019,...

‘Entire society must come forward to fight fascist forces’

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Daya Pawar Memorial Award received by Pratima Joshi and Bhimsen Dethe By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net, This year, ‘Padmashri Daya Pawar Smruti Puraskar’ (Padmashri Daya...

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

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

Shut courts if they can’t protect rights: SC/ST Act vedict judge

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By IANS New Delhi: Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, who headed a bench which delivered the judgment forbidding immediate arrest under SC/ST Act, on Friday said...

JNU suicide: ABVP seeks CBI probe, teachers’ suspension

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New Delhi, (IANS): The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Monday demanded a CBI probe into JNU student J. Muthukrishnan's suicide and sought suspension...

पश्चिम में दलितो का उबाल निकाल न दे भाजपा के अभियान की हवा

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आस मोहाम्द कैफ | TwoCircles.net मेरठ: पिछले सप्ताह मेरठ में भारतीय जनता पार्टी की प्रदेश कार्यसमिति की बैठक में दलितों पर विशेषतौर पर विचार विमर्श किया...

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.

JIH concerned over growing crimes against women in India, spying on citizens, 3rd Covid...

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Addressing an online press meet, Secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) Women’s Department Rahmatunnisa condemned the alleged brutal rape and murder of a nine-year-old Dalit...

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.

Rectify 1.4 crore errors in caste particulars, states told

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

Commission chief flays Jharkhand over SC welfare schemes

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Ranchi : National Commission for Scheduled Castes chairperson P.L. Punia on Wednesday flayed the Jharkhand government over the non-implementation of welfare schemes for the...

“Halt the Hate”: Amnesty International’s new website to track and document hate crimes in...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter One of the leading human rights organization Amnesty International India has launched a website on Thursday which will be used to...

वीडियो रिपोर्ट : अब वन गुर्जरों की जंगल से ज़मीन की और जाने की...

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ़। Twocircles.net हिमाचल ,उत्तराखंड और उत्तर प्रदेश की शिवालिक रेंज में लाखों वन गुर्जर रहते हैं वो पशुपालन करते हैं और दूध को बाजार...

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

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

Petitions against reserving MCD seats for SCs dismissed

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By IANS,

How a ‘footpath pathshala’ in Rajasthan is transforming the lives of children of Dalit...

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Deep Mukherjee, TwoCircles.net Jaipur: Sitting amidst a loose cluster of children, 10-year-old Rajesh (name changed) flashes a grin as he looks at the blackboard and...

NCW issues notice to Ramdev

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New Delhi : The National Commission for Women Wednesday issued a notice to yoga guru Ramdev for his remarks on Congress vice president Rahul...

Every cloud has a silver lining

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After the darkest of dark clouds of uncertainty prevailing over AMU, the acting Vice Chancellor Prof Saleem Uddin has taken a courageaous and bold step to appoint a very competent team of administrators (Registrar-Prof. Jawed Masarrat; Controller of Exams â€“ Prof. Akhtar Haseeb; and Proctor- Prof Muzaffar Ahmad Siddiqui), to beam a ray of hope among the student community. I take this opportunity to congratulate the VC and all the newly appointed stalwarts, for accepting the challenge and wish that their dedicated efforts will shed all fears among students and their parents.

Allowing such huge foreign capital in real estate is anti-people

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Ref: - Are PM, FM, RBI Governor & SEBI Chairman listening? Dear Sir When in mid 2003 after retirement, I shifted in my present 3 bed room rented flat at Dwarka, New Delhi, it used to cost Rupees 1.2 million. Because due to personal reasons I am required to stay in Delhi hence my relatives and friends advised me to purchase similar flat in Delhi. Hence I started managing Rs 1.2 million for the purchase of similar flat which I succeeded within few months. But to my dismay the price of such flats rose hence I started managing additional funds in order to take care of this price rise.

Campaign to make minority and SC/ST women legally aware

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By Saiyed Danish, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Ashray Welfare and Charitable Society (AWCS) organized an event on legal awareness for women belonging to SC/ST and minority communities living near Pant Nagar and Nizamuddin in the community hall of Pant Nagar neighbourhood.

S Chandra Mohan: The poet of an enlightened Ambedkarite era

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By Vidya Bhushan Rawat for Twocircles.net S. Chandra Mohan’s poetry reflects the brilliance of his thought process and the rebel inside him. The sheer diversity...

13 years on, families hope for justice in Laxmanpur-Bathe massacre

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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.

Ruling party’s patriotic card backfires

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By Amulya Ganguli It was inevitable that the kind of muscular nationalism favoured by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would lead to hooliganism by its...

A book by this Dalit author has left RSS fuming

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

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

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

Indian American civil rights groups protest UP state coverup of Hathras rape incident

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TCN News Over 10 leading Indian American civil rights groups dedicated to safeguarding India’s democratic and secular values, held a protest at Dallas Municipal Court...

यूपी सरकार के मंत्री का गंभीर आरोप,दलित समाज से होने के कारण हुआ भेदभाव,इस्तीफा

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स्टाफ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश की योगी सरकार अभी 100 दिन पूरे होने की कामयाबी का जश्न मना रही थी कि चार महीने की इस...

‘We were loyal supporters of BJP,’ Bengali Colony residents anguished with eviction notices

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A Dalit majority area consisting of more than 25,000 houses situated near the Tughlaqabad Fort in New Delhi is facing the threat of...

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)

Amend statute for job promotions to SCs, STs: Mayawati

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Dalit girl gangraped, four booked

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By IANS, Chandigarh : Three men and a woman have been booked for the gangrape of a 15-year-old Dalit girl in Haryana's Sirsa district, police said Saturday.

RJD to support JD-U government in Bihar

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Patna : In a surprise move, senior RJD leader Abdul Bari Siddiqui Thursday said his party will support the JD-U government headed by new...

‘It’s a constitutional issue, not a Christian one:’ Women groups protest violence against Adivasi...

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Over the last few months, hundreds of Adivasi Christians have fled their homes across several villages of Chhattisgarh after alleged attacks by Hindutva...

Dalit intellectuals’ voices should be heard on Arundhati Roy’s Ambedkar introduction

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By Vanya Mehta, TwoCircles.net, Since the publication of Arundhati Roy’s introduction to The Annihilation of Caste, called “The Doctor and the Saint,” intellectuals and Dalit activists have spoken out against her as a choice for the introduction as well as her over-emphasis on Mahatma Gandhi’s story over Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar’s story.

BSP won’t support Modi in government formation: Mayawati

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Lucknow: BSP chief Mayawati declared Friday that under no circumstances will her party support a possible BJP government after the Lok Sabha election. Addressing a...

Mayawati criticizes BJP government for ignoring Dalit icons in conferring Bharat Ratna

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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.

SDPI vehemently condemns burning alive of Dalit Kids

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By TCN News Bhopal: The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) has vehemently condemned the burning...

‘I want to break the hands of the people who attacked our brothers in...

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net (The following is a first-person account of a youth from Amreli district) Amerli, Gujarat: My name is Sagar Bagada. I am...

Dalit Christians caught in the Church vortex

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By R L Francis The Christians all over India observed November 11 as “Dalit Liberation Sunday” (DLS) with an avowed aim of bringing the Dalit Christians...

इस काम में जान का ख़तरा भी है और कमाई भी कुछ ख़ास नहीं…

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TwoCircles.net News Desk नई दिल्ली : दिल्ली शहर की घनी आबादी के बीच ओखला के एक कमरे के घर में 25 साल का रंजीत अपने...

In a first, two seats reserved for ST candidates in upcoming UP elections

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By Faisal Fareed, Twocircles.net For the first time in Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, two assembly seats—Obra and Dudhi in Sonbhadra district have been reserved for...

Dalit auto rickshaw driver Chitralekha attacked allegedly by CPI (M) workers

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By Shafeeq Hudawi Kozhikode: While the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and its associate organisations have been vociferously protesting against the crackdown in JNU and...

NHRC praises Gujarat for helping Dalits

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By IANS, Ahmedabad : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Monday praised the Gujarat government for bettering the lot of Dalits in the state.

Distorted hierarchy of political values of ‘Absolute Democracy (Republic)’ over ‘Human Rights’ claimed Benazir.

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Ref: - Lack of human values of non-interventionist UN, the result of shirking Christianity. Dear Sir

Delhi Congress’ women’s wing protests

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New Delhi:Hundreds of female activists of the Delhi Mahila Congress protested at the BJP headquarters here against yoga guru Baba Ramdev for his recent...

Why Muslims are a punching bag

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By Bobby Naqvi The Indian Right has always used Muslims as a stepping stone to power in Delhi and elsewhere since the 1930s. Almost every...

Two Dalits assaulted in Andhra for skinning dead cow

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

How Dalit music in Punjab transformed from a religious to a political soundtrack

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By Manisha Bhalla, TwoCircles.net The elephant of BSP has arrived, The one that will be a companion to all, To end poverty and slavery, This time...

Ramdas Athawale – best survivor among Dalit leaders

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Mumbai : Republican Party of India (A) President Ramdas B. Athawale, who was sworn-in as Minister of State in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council...

Make eligibility of pre and post-metric scholarship for minority students same as that for...

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Aurangabad (Maharashtra): The present eligibility criteria of scoring at least 50% marks in the previous year’s examination to claim pre-...

क्या सचमुच प्रतापगढ़ में मूर्ति छू लेने पर हुई दलित की हत्या !

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आकिल हुसैन। Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के प्रतापगढ़ जिले में एक अधेड़ दलित की हत्या का मामला सामने आया है। मृतक के परिजनों ने जातीय भेदभाव...

Book on discrimination against Dalits creates buzz in the US

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New York, (IANS): A highly anecdotal and touching account of caste-based discrimination in India by an "untouchable born in Andhra Pradesh", who emigrated to the...

Una assault lifts lid on atrocities on Dalits in Gujarat

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By Darshan Desai Ahmedabad : The brutal thrashing of four Dalit youths by self-styled cow protection vigilantes is no isolated incident in Gujarat. As many...

Andhra minister booked for assaulting Dalit youth

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By IANS, Hyderabad : Hyderabad police Sunday booked an Andhra Pradesh minister and his aides for assaulting a Dalit supporter of the Telangana movement.

Anil Kumar N S of Dalit Human Rights Movement passes away

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net Thiruvananthapuram: Anil Kumar N S, chairman of the Dalit Human Rights Movement (DHRM) and among the foremost activist who led the...

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....

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

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

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...

Dalit teenager commits suicide after being humiliated by Kerala Police; Congress demands action against...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Kozhikode: The suicide of a Dalit teenager in Kasargod has been turned into a political tussle, with Congress leaders visiting the...

Women quota bill: BSP, JD-S indicate reservations

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By IANS, New Delhi: Even as Samajwadi Party (SP) and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Sunday launched fresh attacks on the women's reservation bill in its present form, two other parties -- the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) also indicated that they were not in full agreement. JD-S chief H.D. Dewe Gowda said that his party was not against reservation for women but would push for a quota for backward classes. The JD-S has two members in the Rajya Sabha, where the bill is slated to come up for discussion and vote Monday.

Six activists arrested by Pune Police in relation to Bhima Koregaon, protests in Mumbai...

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By Daisy Katta, TwoCircles.net Six months after the Bhima Koregaon incident, Pune police along with Deonar Police, Mumbai barged into the office of Dalit Activist...

Dadarao Patekar: Fighting for the rights of Mumbai’s Safai Karamcharis

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By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net It would not be an exaggeration to say that manual scavenging remains one of the worst forms of caste atrocities in...

Congress stages walkout in Lok Sabha over attacks on Dalits

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New Delhi : The Congress on Monday staged a walkout in Lok Sabha on the issue of attacks on Dalits and hit out at...

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...

UP people should vote for a government that ensures safety, security to Dalits and...

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By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net The Federation of Social Justice, an organisation that seeks to give a platform to all the marginalised voices in the country,...

Custody death: Cops to face identification parade

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By IANS, Gurgaon : An identification parade would be held to narrow down on accused policemen in the alleged custody death of a 29-year-old Dalit cab driver here last week, police said Monday.

Looking beyond Women’s Day and Capitalism-inspired Feminism

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By Ashley Tellis for Twocircles.net Now that Women’s Day has gone, women will be forgotten once again for the rest of the year....

With Gandhi as guide, Gates goes to a Dalit village

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By IANS, Kande Rao ka Purwa (Uttar Pradesh), May 11 (IANS) After showing Bill Gates a glimpse of the development he had initiated in the social and the health sectors in the Amethi and Rae Bareli constituencies represented by him and his mother and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi took the Microsoft chief to experience life in a Dalit village in Pratapgarh district Tuesday evening.

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...

Pakistan triumphantly emerges as leader of diarchal democracy in SAARC region

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Ref: - For consolidating diarchy, Musharraf may capitalize on USA support. Dear Sir

Musharraf has proved all the skeptics wrong who were saying that there would be no free and fair elections in Pakistan. Now the same skeptics (including most of the noises through Indian media) are clamoring and leading the vicious propaganda that Musharraf ought to resign in the face of electoral defeat of PML (Q), allegedly Musharraf's party and resounding victory of PPP and PML (N), the parties of Late Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif.

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.

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

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Krantikari Janata: First Ambedkarite magazine published in Marathi and Urdu and its potential renaissance

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net In an age where social media and websites have become the easiest way to reach audiences, how feasible is it to...

Book review: Loknath Yashwant’s Broken man might be too hard-hitting for ‘Ghalib’ fans

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Mirza Ghalib is a celebrated figure in the vast world of poetry, and many times Ghalib produces a self-demolishing effect on...

Atrocities on Dalits: Panel frowns on low conviction rates

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By IANS,

सोनभद्र का रामबाबु : वेटर के तौर पर अपमान झेला ,लोकडाउन में नौकरी...

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मोहम्मद आसिम। Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के सबसे पिछड़े इलाकों में शुमार करने वाले आदिवासी बहुल क्षेत्र सोनभद्र के लाल ने कमाल जैसा कुछ कर दिया...

‘अखिलेश को दलितों के घर फुंकवाने वाले आपराधिक तत्व प्रिय हैं’

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TCN News बलिया : जहां एक तरफ़ बलिया सदर विधायक नारद राय को दोबारा कैबिनेट मंत्री बनाए जाने को लेकर उनके समर्थकों में खुशी व...

राजपूतों और व्यवस्था की शिकार एक दलित लड़की

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net वैशाली: बिहार में सरकार का चेहरा बदल गया है, मगर मिज़ाज नहीं बदले हैं. पिछले शासनकाल में एक दलित लड़की सीमा...

61 RS members seek impeachment of Andhra and Telangana HC Judge for abusing Dalit...

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By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net Sixty one members of the Rajya Sabha have submitted a petition to Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari on Monday...

Gujarat government will be taught a lesson: Kejriwal

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Ahmedabad : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday warned that the Gujarat government will be taught a lesson in the assembly elections next...

Lalu vows to keep fighting for backward classes

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Patna: A day after the BJP and its allies slammed RJD chief Lalu Prasad for saying the upcoming assembly polls would be a "backward...

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