एक साल बाद आज भी सहमा है शब्बीरपुर ,बदल गई है दलितो की जिंदगी

आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : "पिछले साल 5 मई, हम सब लोग अपने खेतों में काम कर रहे थे औरत मर्द सब...इतनी भीड़ इस...

Secular India should legislate to stop politics entering religion.

Ref:- Present laws for stopping religion entering politics are not enough

Dear Sir

The following two events on July, 8-9 cause great concern that warrants immediate legislation by India during coming monsoon session of Parliament to ensure that politics does not enter religion:-

(i)-Media reported that jehadi CDs & incriminating hard disc were found by Bangalore Police from the house of Kafeel & Sabeel , the alleged accused of Glasgow terror blast.

Dalit killed for using hand pump

By IANS, Patna: A Dalit man was beaten to death in a Bihar village by upper caste henchmen for drawing water from a common hand pump, police said Saturday.

भारत में सरकार नाम की कोई चीज़ है या नहीं?

डॉ. खजान सिंह हाल ही में दबंगो द्वारा गुजरात के ऊना में दलितों के साथ किए गए अमानवीय व्यवहार ने सारे देश के बहुजनो को...

Varun Gandhi for abolishing death penalty, BJP says personal view

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

‘Liberal’, ‘Ambedkerite’ Islamophobia and communal violence: A counter narrative

By Dr Mohammad Kamran Ahsan As hate becomes the fulcrum, and the new normal of Indian polity, various view-points have emerged analysing this institutionalised hatred...

Bharatiya Dalit Church to be inaugurated on Oct 10

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.

Students protesting for Rohith Vemula detained in Delhi

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

दिल्ली में पहला लिटरेचर फेस्टिवल,अपने अधिकारों के लिए दलित लेखकों ने बुलन्द की आवाज़

आसमोहम्मद कैफ  TwoCircles.net दिल्ली- 3-4 फरवरी को राजधानी के विश्वविद्यालय परिसर में किरोड़ीमल कॉलेज में दलित लिटरेचर फेस्टिवल का आयोजन किया गया.देश मे ऐसा पहली बार...

Congress team to inquire into Rajasthan caste violence

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

Transwomen turn teachers for Dalit children in Bengal

By Sahana Ghosh Malda/Kolkata, (IANS): Motherhood transcends gender. Unconditional love knows no caste barriers. Defying norms, in a rundown neighbourhood in Malda in West Bengal, transwoman Arindam...

Banaras weavers to showcase their products at Dilli Haat

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

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

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...

AAP: The construction of a fantasy!

By Yogesh Maitreya, A day afterthe Delhi Assembly Election results wereannounced, Indian media has started to exercise its usual prejudiced, hegemonic commentary and telecast over AAP’s win. Meanwhile discriminatory practices (continuously reported by Marathi dailies like Samrat and Mahanak) in Indian villages on the caste lines or even in its urban pockets have been neglected as usual by ‘popular media’ as if AAP’s victory has resolved issues related to most marginalised sections of society or of all Aam Indians. In this process public imagination fed by Delhi’s election result, has further created a biased perception towards AAP in people’s mind.

Success in Bihar victory against RSS, Modi: Rahul

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said the success of the Grand Alliance in Bihar was a victory against the RSS,...

Mayawati rejigs party organisation, eyes set on 2017 polls

Lucknow : Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati late Sunday affected major changes in the party hierarchy by sacking all the coordinator booth in-charges...

गुजरात : गौरक्षकों ने की दलितों की निर्मम पिटाई

सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net गिर सोमनाथ: गौरक्षकों द्वारा देश भर में किया जा रहा बवाल अभी थमा नहीं है कि गौरक्षकों द्वारा की जा रही हिंसक...

Delhi event discusses poll questions

New Delhi : 'Hum Dekhenge: Looking Back' - an event to help voters get answers to some questions ahead of the Lok Sabha election...

Seven held guilty for lynching five Dalits in Haryana

By IANS, Jhajjar (Haryana): A district court here Saturday held seven people guilty and acquitted 19 others in a case relating to the 2002 lynching of five Dalits in this Haryana district. The punishment for the convicts will be announced Monday. All the seven people held guilty were sent to judicial custody by Additional District and Sessions Judge A.K. Jain Saturday.

परमाणु ऊर्जा के खिलाफ चुटका में संघर्ष जारी

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

दो दलित बच्चों की हत्या: खुले में शौच या जाति की वज़ह से गई...

By Meena Kotwal, TwoCircles.net मध्यप्रदेश के शिवपुरी ज़िले का एक छोटा-सा गांव है भावखेड़ी. मुश्किल से 150 से 200 घर होंगे. भावखेड़ी वो गांव है जहां...

Amit Shah visits Dalit woman’s family in Kerala, BJP forms panel

New Delhi : BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday set up a three-member committee to look into incidents of atrocities against Dalit women in...

नृशंस आपराधिक अग्निकांड : दोषियों को बचाने की फिराक़ में प्रशासन!

TwoCircles.net News Desk लखनऊ : सीतापुर के लहरपुर थाने के पट्टी देहलिया गांव में हुई आगजनी के मामले के बाद आज पीड़ितों से...

नयी सदी, नयी सरकार: मैला ढोनेवाले मैला ही ढो रहे हैं

फहमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net पटना: देश को आज़ाद हुए सालों हो चुके लेकिन दलित समुदाय के साथ भेदभाव लगातार जारी है. यह समुदाय अभी तक...

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

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.

दलित-मुसलमानों की ‘बक्खो’ जाति बदतर जिंदगी गुजारने को मजबूर

फ़हमीना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net वो कहते हैं न कि अपना घर सभी को अज़ीज़ होता है चाहे वो महल हो या झोपडी हर शख्स सुकून से...

Citizens demand heritage city status for Agra

By Brij Khandelwal, IANS, Agra : Ahead of the polls, several citizens' groups have asked candidates of various political parties to support their demand for heritage city status to Agra visited by millions of tourists every year. Party candidates are being asked to clarify their stand on various issues that concern the development of this historic city.

बुंदेलखंड : वोट के लिए दलितों को प्रताड़ित कर रहे हैं भाजपा प्रत्याशी

प्रियंका कोटमराजू और अंशु ललित, TwoCircles.net बुंदेलखंड : 'वोट नहीं दोगे, तो देख लेंगे. सरकारी नल से पानी नहीं पीने देंगे, सरकारी रोड पर चलने...

A book by this Dalit author has left RSS fuming

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...

Dalits in Haryana allege bias over power supply

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

‘Jungle Raj’ in Rajasthan

By IndScribe One after the other, shocking incidents of crimes and atrocities on the Dalits are being reported from Rajasthan. The latest incident has occurred in...

बुलंदशहर में पुलिस की पिटाई से रिक्शाचालक की मौत,एसपी का इंकार

स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net यूपी के बुलंदशहर से दिल को दहला देने वाली घटना सामने आई है जहां एक रिक्शा चालक को पुलिस ने पीट पीटकर मार...

सहारनपुर : ‘पुलिस पीड़ित दलितों के खिलाफ़ ही मुक़दमे दर्ज कर रही है’

TwoCircles.net News Desk बलिया : सहारनपुर में पुलिस संरक्षण में दलितों पर हो रहे हमले और हाशिमपुरा-मलियाना जनसंहार की तीसवीं बरसी पर रिहाई मंच, गोंडवाना...

JD-U may oust Manjhi as Bihar chief minister

Patna : Speculation is rife in Bihar's political circles over the possible ouster of Jitan Ram Manjhi as the chief minister after he said...

Dalit boy in UP commits suicide after being boycotted for killing a Calf

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Lucknow: On Saturday, an 18-year-old Dalit boy named Ramu committed suicide in Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh by jumping in front...

आरक्षण और जातिवाद पर कंगना को पत्रकार मीना का करारा जवाब

डियर कंगना रनौत, आशा करती हूं कि आप एकदम अच्छी होंगी. कल मेरे सामने आपका एक ट्वीट आया जिसे पढ़कर बहुत दुख हुआ. शुरूआत में...

Golden opportunity for both China and Tibetans

Ref: - China should exploit political weakness of India and USA & its democratic allies. Dear Sir

Racial and caste oppression have many similarities

By Rajesh Sampath, Comparisons can be risky, but not impossible. Consider for a moment India’s Dalits, or “untouchables,” and African Americans. Racial inequality in America has its...

Dalit settlement in focus of Modi’s Clean India mission

New Delhi: Dozens of municipal workers were busy Wednesday sprucing up Valmiki Colony, a settlement of poor, once-outcast Dalits where Mahatma Gandhi once dwelt,...

A letter to Rohith Vemula from a young Muslim

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

VIPs visit murdered Dalit woman’s mother, probe continues

Perumbavoor (Kerala) : A stream of high-profile people are visiting a hospital here in Ernakulam district to meet the mother of a poor Dalit...

Religious leaders stress on strengthening mutual love, harmony in India

TCN News New Delhi: A get-together of the prominent leaders of different religions was organised at the Archbishop House here on Monday to strengthen mutual...

दलित युवाओं के लिए ‘आदर्श मानव ‘ बन गए है चन्द्रशेखर

आस मोहम्मद कैफ, सहारनपुर- छूटमलपुर से 90 किमी दूर बिजनोर बाईपास के पास मीरापुर में कुछ लड़के क्रिकेट खेल रहे है,गेंद को अपनी रेंज में...

The inspiring journey of Dalit journalists in race for an Oscar award

The documentary Writing With Fire narrates the story of gutsy women in India’s heartland. Musheera Ashraf | TwoCircles.net  UTTAR PRADESH — Nominated for best documentary feature...

Wearing slogans on sleeves: Rupali Jadhav designs her activism on T-shirts

33-year-old Rupali Jadhav started designing and selling T-shirts in early 2020, a year after the arrest of six activists of Kabir Kala Manch (KKM). Riya...

BJP leader’s remark on Mayawati shameful: Kejriwal

New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday condemned BJP leader Dayashankar Singh's abusive remark against Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati and...

JD-U may be headed for split over CM Manjhi

Patna: Bihar's ruling JD-U Friday appeared headed for a split over the likely replacement of Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi by his predecessor Nitish...

दलितों की दर्दनाक व्यथा कथा है गुना और दरभंगा की घटना

मध्यप्रदेश के गुना, बिहार के दरभंगा और उत्तर प्रदेश के मेरठ में यूं तो हजार मील का राऊंड बनता है। मगर दलितों की दशा...

Dalit man murdered in Haryana

By IANS, Jind (Haryana): A 31-year-old Dalit man, a resident of a village in this Haryana district, was found murdered under mysterious circumstances in adjacent Sonepat district Sunday, police said. Police identified the deceased as Vijender Singh. His body was recovered from the fields in Sonepat. He worked as a farm worker in the fields of a Jind resident belonging the Jat community.

British aid worker killed in Afghanistan

By DPA, Kabul : Taliban fighters killed a British woman aid worker for "spreading Christianity," Monday as she was going to her office in the western part of Kabul, officials said. The attackers, who were riding on motorbike, fled the area after the shooting, interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said. Bashary had earlier said that the aid worker was from South Africa and was working with an aid organization that was helping disabled people in Afghanistan. But the British embassy in Kabul later said that one of the its nationals was killed in the city.

Centre isolating Hindus, says Mamata

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

Jamia to deliberate on implications of 2014 elections on Dalit and Minorities

By TCN News, New Delhi: Dr. K.R. Narayan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia is going to organize an International Conference on “Election 2014: Implications for Dalit and Minorities in India” on September 2 and 3, 2014.

Bihar court acquits 24 accused in 1999 Dalit massacre

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

बुलंदशहर मे गैंगरेप पीड़िता दलित युवती की मौत ,गांव में तनाव

विशेष संवाददाता । Twocircles.net  उत्तर प्रदेश के बुलंदशहर में एक बार फिर हाथरस जैसी घटना हुई है। यहां की एक दलित युवती की जलकर मौत...

Chandy to hold reception for Ghulam Ali in Kerala

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will lead a reception here for Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali on January 14 ahead of his performance. Ali...

‘रासुका से तो अच्छा है मुझे मार दे सरकार’ : भीम आर्मी सुप्रीमो चंद्रशेख़र...

आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : भीम आर्मी के सुप्रीमो चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद पर राज्य सरकार राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा क़ानून (रासुका) की कार्यवाही कर रही है. यह...

मायावती :दलित महिला का 4 बार सीएम बनना, ब्राह्मणवादी-पितृसत्ता पर है सबसे बड़ी चोट

मीना कोतवाल।Twocircles.net मायावती का नाम सुनते ही दिल और दिमाग पर छा जाती है एक दलित महिला की पहचान, जिसने छाप छोड़ दी है लगभग...

Lost Her Husband to Manual Scavenging, Soni Singh’s Struggle for Survival

Punam Masih, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: Soni Singh sits on the steps of a shop near Mehrauli Dargah with her two daughters, waiting for kind-hearted individuals...

Reservations and Muslims in Telugu States

By Shaik Amer Arafath for TwoCircles.net, When our Constitution was framed, the framers made a special provision with intention to provide equal opportunity in the...

Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind’s 33rd mega gathering in Ajmer to focus on Dalit-Muslim unity

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

भीम आर्मी के समर्थन में आए ओवैसी

TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter नई दिल्ली : भीम आर्मी के समर्थन में अब ओवैसी की पार्टी ऑल इंडिया मजलिस-ए-इत्तेहादुल मुस्लिमीन (मजलिस) भी आ गई है. इस...

Civil society members visit Sunped, condemn role of state and central governments

By TCN News New Delhi: A civil society delegation that included activists and senior Gandhians visited the Sunped village of Haryana on Thursday, meeting the...

University of Oxford expresses concern over rising caste, gender-based violence in India

TCN News The students, faculty, staff and alumni of the prestigious University of Oxford have expressed grave concerns against the rising caste and gender-based violence...

Abducted student found murdered in Guragaon

Gurgaon : An 18-year-old student, who was abducted last weekend, was on Thursday found murdered, police said, adding she might have been sexually assaulted...

Spat with minister: Haryana transfers woman police officer

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

Human Rights Watch criticises Modi government over increasing attacks on Muslims and Dalits

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter New Delhi: Hindu vigilante groups attacked Muslims and Dalits over suspicions that they had killed, stolen, or sold cows for beef....

It is the duty of all secular and democratic groups to foil designs of...

By TCN News, Bhopal (MP): All India Muslim Majlis-E-Mushawarat (AIMMM), an apex forum of Muslim organizations and institutions of national eminence held a meeting of...

MPs demand special session for Ambedkar’s birth anniversary

New Delhi : A Lok Sabha member on Friday demanded a special session of parliament to commemorate 125th anniversary of B.R. Ambedkar. Biju Janata Dal...

‘MIM will contest Delhi and UP polls too’, says Owaisi in Aurangabad

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: Buoyed with the Maharashtra assembly election win, the Majlis E Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) has declared to contest forthcoming Delhi and Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. AIMIM party chief and MP Asaduddin Owaisi, who was in Aurangabad to attend a ‘Thanks Giving’ gathering, made the announced that MIM is eyeing assembly polls due in the national capital and Uttar Pradesh.

English education for the SC/ST/OBCs is my long term commitment​: Kancha Ilaiah​

​By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter​ ​Dalit rights activist and writer Kancha Ilaiah has come upfront countering the allegation against him that he has "a Christian agenda"...

BJP’s defeat is seldom analyzed deeply

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.

Book review: Kanshiram: Leader of the Dalits

By Chandra Sen for Twocircles.net Author: By Badri Narayan Publisher: Penguin, Delhi Price: Rs 374 at Amazon.in ‘The caste has come into politics’, ‘the standard...

Beef, pork, and elections: A subjective commentary

By Yogesh Maitreya for TwoCircles.net, The political ground in India has always been caste-ridden. Candidates, who claim to play politics excluding these fundamental factors of sociology of India, only put voters in complete oblivion where voters are being lift up from their ground level identity and persuade to imagine their space in candidate’s utopian story-telling about changes, the changes which are mostly caste based matters to which utopian language wipes with its lucrative tongue.

राजपूतों और व्यवस्था की शिकार एक दलित लड़की

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...

Dalit tied to a tree, beaten up in Karnataka village

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter A Dalit man was tied to a tree and beaten up in a village in Vijayapura district on suspicion of helping...

Kanhaiya’s grandfather moves court against two in Bihar

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

Atrocities against Dalits legitimises casteist orientation: Swaraj Abhiyan

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

‘Come Eat With Me’: Exploring caste through cooking Dalit cuisine in upper caste kitchens

In an interview with TwoCircles.net, award winning Dalit theatre artist Sri Vamsi Matta talks about his experiences as a Dalit which inform the questions,...

SDPI alleges atrocities against dalits increased under new regime

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

The 13-point system is both casteist and unconstitutional, say activists (II)

By Atul Anand https://youtu.be/nUdGjND3_ps On January 31, 2019, a protest march was organized from Mandi House to Parliament Street on the 13 point roster issue. It...

Will continue to speak my mind, says Manjhi

Patna : Ignoring warnings and advice of his party JD-U over his controversial remarks in recent days, Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi Sunday...

Notice to Himachal over caste discrimination in temple

Shimla : The Himachal Pradesh High Court has issued notice to the state over caste discrimination in the ancient Maheshwari Devi Temple in Shimla...

हाथरस से ग्राऊंड रिपोर्ट : “ऊंची जाति के लोग अब हमसे बात नही करते,...

रियाज़ हाशमी, हाथरस से Twocircles.net के लिए 19 वर्षीय दलित लडकी से गैंगरेप के बहुचर्चित मामले में सवर्ण जाति के चारों आरोपियों के खिलाफ सेंट्रल...

Budget casts gloom on Dalits: Udit Raj

By TCN News New Delhi: Dr. Udit Raj, National President, Indian Justice Party and All India Confederation of SC/ST Organizations said that this budget has again cast gloom on Dalits. Rs. 4,500 crore have been allocated for the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment which will be utilized not only for the welfare of Dalits but also for the welfare and upliftment of backwards and senior citizens etc.

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

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...

BJP anti-Dalit, behind Koregaon riots: Delhi Minister

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Meo Muslims wants ST status like Mina

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Indian P.M.’s plea should be rejected.

Ref:- Separation of state (politics) & religion a must, whether secular state or not.

Dear Sir

This refers to Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan's statement widely reported in Indian electronic and print media that in the backdrop of three Indians allegedly found involved in Glasgow terror blast, Manmohan talked to Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, where he implored Brown to not label the communities such as Indians or Muslims or Asians etc. as terrorists because as a Sikh he understands the trauma of being labelled.

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A Portrait of the Indian as a Young Dalit Girl: Part 1 – The...

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No mandatory arrest for offences under SC/ST Act, says SC

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Hyderabad varsity vice chancellor goes on leave

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