Choosing My Religion: ‘Freedom of Religion Laws’ to Curb Liberty
By Ram Puniyani
Indian Constitution gives us the right to practice, preach and propagate our religion. To not to follow any religion is also a...
Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad, and national mythology – Part I
By Umair Azmi
On the anniversary of the murder of Gandhiji, it has become almost a ritual for the RSS to be reminded of what Sardar Patel...
PIL on EVM irregularities: Bombay HC issues notices to EC, Centre, Maharashtra and two...
By Quaid Najmi, IANS
Mumbai, Sep 19 (IANS) In a significant development, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday ordered issuing of notices to the Election Commission of...
Ayodhya imbroglio 1949-2019: Need to restitute and indemnify Muslim sociopolitical losses
Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood
Of late, some people have been approaching the Muslim community leaders persuading them to welcome the Supreme Court decision if it...
Lockdown Lessons: Laws needed, but civic sense sits at the heart of the fight...
Dr. Ahmed Raza
Being the world’s second most populous country, India has geared up to fight Covid19 by initiating persistent efforts towards health care management,...
Superiority of faith, an impediment in solidarity
By Md. Aariz Imam
The response world over to Christchurch terror attack has been historic. For the first time since the start of America's war on...
Twitter’s Sewa International donation: Image rehabilitation for RSS-linked charity?
Beyond a financial boost, Twitter’s donation legitimizes a non-profit tainted by past exposés.
Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net
As COVID plagues India, Indresh Kumar and Shyam Parande...
Impact of Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025: Potential Threats to Muslim Community’s Religious and Property...
Dr. Intekhab Alam
New Delhi: Days after its passage from both houses of Parliament following marathon debates, the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025, got assent of...
Is it Right for India to Lift Partial ban on Hydroxychloroquine Supply?
Shamsuzzaman Ansari
Hydroxychloroquine’s efficacy in treating COVID-19 patients is yet to be shown in large randomized clinical trials
India can produce up to 70...
Babri Masjid: Derailment of civic politics in India
By Dr. Md Afroz & Md Tabrez Alam
6 December 1992 was the day when Babri Masjid was demolished and it was the day when...
Calls for establishing Hindu Rashtra: How did we arrive here?
Call for establishing a Hindu Rashtra and genocide of India's Muslims were made at a religious conclave recently in Haridwar, Uttarakhand. The author...
How to utilise the occasion of Eid Ul Azha – ‘Bakri’ Eid wisely in...
By Dr Sajid A.H Khan
On Monday 11 th August 2019, majority of India’s Muslim community will celebrate Eid ul Hajj or Eid ul Azha...
Coronavirus pandemic and Indian Muslims: Action Plan
By Kashif-ul-Huda and Dr. Shamsuz Zaman
India is anarchy at the best of times. The reason the country seems to be functional is due to...
Citizenship Amendment Bill is nothing but an ‘irrational fear’ of Muslims
By Muddassir Ahmad Qasmi for TwoCircles.net
Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) is the brainchild of people who think that Muslims will dominate India in the next...
This hilly region in Kashmir is prospective front for gateway to Central Asia
By Rahmat Bhat, TwoCircles.net
Like a jewel in the crown of a king, sits the beautiful valley of Karnah at Shamsbari range in north-west Kashmir....
VHP-America’s Narsinghanand controversy is tip of Islamophobic iceberg
Affiliate of India’s Hindu nationalist movement has a history of platforming hate. Narsinghanand’s host of hateful remarks include a call to “finish off Islam” which...
Muslims must think beyond defeating BJP
By Mukhtar Ahmad
Whenever any community , sect, group or section gives a call for unity , it always implies unite against a common enemy....
HR Day: Shocking status of ‘Right to Healthcare’ in India
By Dr Kafeel Khan
10 December is celebrated as the Human Rights Day across the world. On this day, let us talk about the most...
Who to blame for Plight of Muslims
By Ram Puniyani
Naseeruddin Shah in an interview to Karawan-E-Mohabbat expressed his anguish and anger at the killing of Subodh Kumar Singh, the police inspector....
Of dreams and hope: Remembering Shaheen Bagh
By Sharjeel Usmani, TwoCircles.net
Last year, around this time, Amir Aziz recited his poem that soon became an anthem for the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protesters...
Everyone is a minority in India
SAAD RAZI SHAIKH, Twocircles.net
A few weeks into my first year in university, my Professor dropped an interesting line. The discussion was about post-positivist theories....
The rise of India’s Balcony Class
By Shimul, TwoCircles.net
The last few days have been hard. When it becomes a choice between holding on and giving up, unlike the vast majority...
Politics and psychology: a study of political campaign in Indian democracy
By Yash Nawaz
What is politics and psychology? How are both related to each other? I have tried to figure out these questions to understand political...
Dealing with Corona Virus: No place for blind Faith
Dr. Ram Puniyani
The World today (March 2020) is gripped with the pandemic of Corona Virus. While it began from China, currently it has gripped...
Biden administration taking a dangerous path with Modi regime
Communal violence escalates in India as the US embraces its source.
Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net
Two months ago, Atul Keshap — who was then temporarily serving...
New Jersey marks ground zero for growing US resistance to Hindutva
Modi's regime’s American support base suffers multiple defeats in the Summer of 2022.
Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net
UNITED STATES — After the Old Paramus Reformed...
A Dalit Girl Dreamed of Belonging – Until She Saw What They Really Thought
Swastika Verma, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: Feminism in India remains a tender and often misunderstood subject. Half the population is unfamiliar with its meaning, while the...
कोरोना के तीसरी लहर की तैयारी और हमारे बच्चे
जावेद अनीस
कोरोना की दूसरी लहर धीमी पड़ रही है, लेकिन इसी के साथ ही तीसरे लहर की आहट भी सुनाई पड़ने लगी है....
Syria’s Shifting Sands: Power Struggles, Regional Ambitions and the Dawn of a New Middle...
Mushtaque Rahamat
It is indeed perplexing how swiftly Syria’s Assad regime collapsed, forcing the dictator to flee. Understanding and unpacking the incident and its implications...
नफरत की खेती वोटों की फसल
तो क्या यह चुनाव व्हाट्सएप पर लड़ा जा रहा है...
नासिरूद्दीन
एक फोटो आती है. देखते ही देखते ही हम सबके मोबाइल में घूमने लगती...
The plight of Meitei Pangals or Manipur Muslims remains unheard
Syed Ali Mujtaba
Manipuri Muslims or Meitei Pangals are not jumping into the current tribal war between Meitei and the Kuki. They are not ready...
Muslim liberals’ problematic noises on Karnataka anti-hijab row
To discuss whether the hijab is essential or not, whether all Muslims wear the hijab or not, whether those who wear it do it...
Bihar Elections: Seven orgs urge political parties to ‘guarantee citizenship rights for Muslims’
By Sami Ahmad forTwo Circles.net
Bihar: In view of the upcoming Bihar elections, seven Muslim religious and social organizations have issued a public manifesto for...
Saffron calling in West Bengal…
By Shiveshwar Kundu
Bengal's society can't function without ideology. The upsurge of Hindutva in the eastern state can be seen through the aspect of an...
‘Tyag’, ‘Tapasya’ and the long march of migrant labourers
By Sarfaraz Nasir and Absar Alam
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (“the world is a single family”), a maxim of India’s socio-cultural unity in diversity, is deeply rooted...
Living as a subaltern in India amid Corona pandemic
By Chand Mahal Ruby and Ruhail Andrabi
On 25th March the prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, announced a 21 days countrywide lockdown, millions of...
नए कृषि अध्यादेश से पल-पल मरेगा मज़दूर, किसान
अकरम क़ादरी, Twocircles.net
देश की संसद ने जिस प्रकार से कृषि अध्यादेश को पारित किया है तबसे किसानों में रोष व्याप्त है। कई सांसदों ने...
Why do Muslims sacrifice animals on Eid?
Every year on the occasion of Eid-ul-Adha, Muslims across the world sacrifice animals to mark the sacrifice made by Prophet Ibrahim (PBUH). The article...
Holi, Brahmin cultural hegemony and Bahujan narratives
Sumeet Samos, TwoCircles.Net
Mar 12. 2020. Every year around the time of Holi and Durga Puja we encounter a discontent emanating from a Bahujan activists...
Politics of Sedition under the cloak of National Interest
Syed Ghiasuddin
Zafar-ul-Islam Khan, Chairman of Delhi Minority Commission became the centre of a controversy for his tweet dated 28th April 2020. The tweet thanked...
Understanding LOC ceasefire and reorganization
The US influence cannot be the only reason for this change. In its current political construct, India needs some solid reasons to go forward...
Enriching life through Zakat in India
By Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood, TwoCircles.net
‘Zakat’ is one of the five basic pillars of human faith in the Creator. Etymologically it means purification. That...
Not Just BJP, it is the Indian State which is Islamophobic
By Iqbal Salahkar
Exactly six years back, in the first week of April 2014, the polling for Lok Sabha elections began. BJP-led-National Democratic Alliance, registering...
Break the silence: Ending gender-based violence is a human rights imperative
By Shobha Shukla
"There is a global epidemic of violence against women - both within conflict zones and within societies at peace - and it...
ईशनिंदा, मुसलमानों की ज़िम्मेदारियां और विश्व समुदाय
वसीम अकरम त्यागी
पेरिस में मोहम्मद पैगम्बर ए इस्लाम वाले ‘अध्यापक’ की हत्या कर दी गई। इस अध्यापक ने क्लास के दौरान पैगंम्बर ए इस्लाम...
Hate Speech: a contemplation in Indian legal regime
The term ‘hate speech’ has not been formally defined in any of the Indian legislations, however, it is a term created out of social...
AIMIM vs secular parties discourse: Time to accommodate, not split apart
By Mohammad Shekaib Alam
The sea of confrontations Muslims of India are facing today are such that if Muslims do not change their status quo...
Why our whole society is ‘Boys Locker Room’
By Mansi Singh
A large number of people took to social media after the recent Boy's Locker room incident to express their rage and anger...
Is India’s Hindu majority radicalized against Muslims?
If murder and terror accused are being treated as heroes in a society, then that society can be anything but civilized. Right-wing leaders in...
On New Zealand Attack: Breaking the chains of violence
By Arlene J. Schar and Dr. David Leffler
In the words of New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, today is "one of New Zealand's darkest...
AI’s Transformative Impact on Indian Education: Unveiling the Pros and Cons of Modern Tools
By Farooq Siddiqui
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a game-changer in various spheres of life, and its influence on education is revolutionizing the Indian...
Why we must revisit Babasaheb Ambedkar’s call for Constitutional Morality
By Nikhil Asdude, TwoCircles.net
“Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realise that our people have yet to...
Fasihuddin Balkhi: the forgotten historian of Bihar
Born in Patna, Bihar during the British era, Fasihuddin Balkhi made a tremendous contribution to history-writing in Urdu. Despite this feat, he remains largely...
The fall of the Supreme Wall: Paving way for the Great Indian Rashtra
As someone physically present in Court Room 1 for all those days, I attentively heard the Hindu parties' submissions as they clamoured on the...
On Netflix, Islamophobia, and garble of identity representation
By Ehaab Qadeer
Madhya Pradesh police filed an FIR against Netflix for what they deem to be is anti-Hindu content. Later BJP leader Gaurav Tiwari...
Are Muslims’ indirectly helping in making India a ‘Hindu Rashtra’?
By Hem Raj Jain
Since late eighties and especially after the demolition of Babri Mosque in 1992 by Hindutva forces in the presence of the...
Where is Muslim leadership of the new generation in India?
By Shamsher Alam
Veteran leadership is considered a hallmark of political discourse. However, a political party cannot be run only by the old leaders. New leadership...
What led to BJP’s defeat in Delhi assembly election 2020?
Ahmed Raza
The spectacular majority mark for Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over the BJP in Delhi assembly elections did not astonish people – landslide victory...
Playing for Corporates
By Asif Husain
Sporting fever has gripped the whole world. All year round we have world cups and tournaments taking place and a good number...
In defense of the indefensible -Triple Talaq and Sabarimala issue
By Md. Aariz Imam
Courtesy ANI, Narendra Modi has clarified his position on both the Triple Talaq Bill as well as the Sabarimalatemple entry movement. Though...
Bengal Elections 2021: The dilemma of Muslims in Bengal
By Nazma Parveen
Recently the crucial and much-hyped Bihar elections came to an end and the BJP-JD(U) NDA alliance is set to form the Government...
सच्चर रिपोर्ट के पंद्रह साल : हाशिए से बहिष्करण तक का सफर
जावेद अनीस
सच्चर कमेटी रिपोर्ट को डेढ़ दशक से ज्यादा समय बीत चुके हैं. साल 2006 में जब तत्कालीन यूपीए सरकार द्वारा सच्चर कमेटी...
Bogey of ‘economic jihad’: a conspiracy to target livelihood of Indian Muslims
The purpose of these bogus conspiracy theories is to target the livelihood of Muslims and weaken them economically.
Md Asif Khan | TwoCircles.net
The term ‘economic...
The tale of two India Conferences
By Shabir Hassan for TwoCircles.net
MIT and Harvard, the two hallmarks of excellence and legacy are often being flaunted as the best places to learn....
यूपी में भाजपा की जीत के बीच कहाँ खड़े है मुसलमान !
आसमोहम्मद कैफ।Twocircles.net
देश के सबसे बड़े राज्य उत्तर प्रदेश में भारतीय जनता पार्टी चुनाव जीत गई है। संभवतः योगी आदित्यनाथ एक बार फिर...
Tehzib-ul Ikhlaque: Ameliorating the Social Conditions of Indian Muslims
By Areeba Shabbir, TwoCircles.net
An exhaustive audit of Sir Syed Ahmad’s scholarly services laid the foundation of responsible journalism in India. He was the first...
India could turn into next Italy if testing for COVID19 remains this slow
By Dr Nadeem Jilani
The world is in the grip of a raging pandemic. Every country is taking steps to contain it. Indian Government has...
इस तरह तो रमज़ान की रहमत रूठ जाएगी !
आसमोहम्मद कैफ। Twocircles.net
उस दिन 2 अप्रैल थी और रमज़ान की आमद का ऐलान हो चुका था। मुस्लिम समाज इस रमज़ान का शिद्दत से...
निज़ामुद्दीन मरकज़ के बहाने सरकार की ख़ामियों पर पर्दा डालने की कोशिश
साजिद अशरफ़
क्या इनका क़ुसूर सिर्फ़ इतना भर है कि इन्होंने लॉकडाउन के उस दिशा निर्देश का पालन किया, जिसमें कहा गया है कि जो...
The cruel irony of Human Rights Day
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...
New stage of Muslim disempowerment -2
Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam
A few days ago, in this column I had discussed how the Muslim representation in parliament had been brought down to...
Hindus, Muslims and the lies of Mohan Bhagwat
By Ram Puniyani for TwoCircles.net
RSS is one of the only organisation which claims to be cultural and yet controls the political agenda of the...
Glorifying encounter killings in Hindi movies
By Almas Ahmad
“Tum log society ka kachra hai ... main society ka jamadar”
(You people are the trash of the society…and I am the cleaner of...
Has RSS and its cohorts Talibanized Hinduism in India?
Taliban doesn’t necessarily need to be turban clad, swinging AK47, loitering around the streets of Kabul, aiming to kill those who don’t necessarily agree...
Childbirths amid lockdown: Institutional measures needed
Amid the ongoing lockdown in Inda, non-institutional deliveries have been frequently reported. Dr. Ahmed sheds light on the need to prevent these by strengthening...
#TalkToAMuslim: armchair activism gone horribly wrong
By: Masarat Daud
In a parallel world, today is 100th birth anniversary of Nelson Mandela, a peace activist radical by today’s standards. I say parallel...
Why Arrest of Dalit activists-‘Urban Naxals’?
By Ram Puniyani
The violence in Bheema Koregon is still reverberating. We recall that on January 1st, thousands of dalits returning from Bheema Koregaon were...
जेएनयू में प्रवेश प्रक्रिया की जटिलता को लेकर उठ रहे गंभीर सवाल
आलोक राजपूत
जवाहरलाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय (जेएनयू) विभिन्न राष्ट्रीय विवादों एवं गरमा-गरम बहसो का केंद्र बिंदु रहा हैं। हालांकि स्वयं जेएनयू के भीतर व्याप्त विभिन्न...
Muslim reservation: A dream that never saw the day
By Abu Asim
It may not be wrong to say that many of us are victims of promises made by politicians. They pull wool over...
Why did Maulana Madani and Mohan Bhagwat meet
The meeting between Jamiat-e-Ulema-Hind (A) chief Maulana Arshad Madani and RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat on August 30th Friday triggered a storm in the Muslim...
Farmer’s protest versus public inconveniences
By Dr Ahmed Raza
Experiencing frequent and long-lasting public agitation and protest against government policies can never be a good sign for developing countries like...
Operation Samadhan-Prahar and the Changing Nature of Indian State
Syed Ali Mujtaba
Operation Samadhan-Prahar is the new initiative of the Indian government to combat Maoist insurgency in the tribal pockets of the country. Under...
The cost of being an assertive Muslim in India
By Nabeel Ahmad, TwoCircles.net
With the rising hyper-nationalism and Islamophobia, Indian Muslims are constantly bombarded regarding their identity. Forget about full-grown beard and skull cap,...
Human rights as a secular project : Theoretical and practical conundrums in the western...
By M Abdul Fathah
A plethora of human rights rulings came out of the Indian supreme court has been a tonal material for many a recent...
75 years of citizenship by choice: Where do Indian Muslims stand?
After BJP's win in the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that his government would work for the development of Muslims...
New stage of Muslim disempowerment
Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam
One of the less examined and analysed aspects of the recent Lok Sabha elections is the stark fact that the old...
संडे स्पेशल : तो क्या भीम आर्मी सुप्रीमो चंद्रशेखर का सूरज अब डूब रहा...
आसमोहम्मद कैफ़।Twocircles.net
पिछले कुछ सालों में राजनीतिक सरगर्मियों में तेजी से उभर कर सामने आए और दुनियाभर का ध्यान आर्कषित करने वाले भीम आर्मी के...
Rape Raj: Shrouded in Shadow
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...
Islamophobia in society eroding philosophy of Indian constitution
By Md Farrukh Ilyas, TwoCircles.net
“If Muslims become more than 30% of the population, that country is in danger,” said a leader of the Rajya...
Arrest of Munawar Faruqui: Can democracy take a joke?
The people who are silent over the arrest of Munawar Faruqui should remember that ‘if you do not allow a joke in a democracy,...
मीडिया पर कसता शिकंजा
रईस अहमदी
“खींचों न कमानों को न तलवार निकालो,
जब तोप मुक़ाबिल हो तो अख़बार निकालो”
मशहूर शायर अकबर इलाहबादी का यह शेर अंग्रेज़ी दौर में...
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...
Dalit Christians caught in the Church vortex
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...
Knowledge is power and the government controls it
By Saundarya Verma
India is a country so vast that even after inhabiting the worlds’ largest population, we have space for more people. We make...
The politics behind observing ‘Horrors of Partition Remembrance Day’
To have genuine remembrance of the horrors of partition of the subcontinent, one should take a leaf from Germany where they have included the...
Does the sovereignty of a country trump human rights?
The celebrities need to be reminded that human rights are sacrosanct, and it can’t be pushed under the carpet under the garb of protecting...
Is PAGD in Kashmir a Plebiscite Front 2.0 in making?
The trajectory of the People’s Alliance in J&K is somewhat similar to that of the Plebiscite Front in terms of the circumstances in which...
Hindus are in real danger of losing their faith to lunatics and fanatics
By Mushtaque Rahamat
hai raam ke vajud pe hindostan ko naaz
ahl-e-nazar samajhte hain is ko imam-e-hind (Allama Iqbal)
This year again like previous years the...
Understanding BJP’s victory: Critical questions, electorate response and the way forward
By Md. Aariz Imam
The reconciliatory efforts by the country’s largest minority should focus on establishing a SHURA, a council of visionaries on the lines...
India will overcome coronavirus, will it overcome the communal virus?
It needs to be said that Indian Muslims do not need to prove their loyalty to India. Despite the humiliations, vilification and hate campaigns,...
Can humanism survive the onslaught of hate?
By Ram Puniyani
Lately, when India is undergoing the massive crisis of the Coronavirus epidemic and the offshoots of its mishandling, we have also seen...
Muslims under Modi 2.0
By Haamim Kutub Javed Ahmed
National Democratic Alliance ( NDA) is now no longer identified as such. It is Modi 2.0. The brand that catapulted...
AMU is being attacked: But where are our ‘secular’, ‘progressive’ and ‘Ambedkarite’ leaders?
By Saquib Salim for TwoCircles.net
It was February 13, 2016. We, the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), were protesting the arrest of the JNU...
Why Muslims in India no longer need to answer for composite culture
The article is the author’s rebuttal to Ajai Gudavarthy's article titled Mobilisation and Composite culture published by The Hindu on 21 January.
By Md. Aariz Imam
Contrary to...
Jharkhand after 20 years: Rich state, poor people and a tale of betrayal
By Dr. Md Afroz & MD Tabrez Alam, TwoCircles.net
Jharkhand is considered one among the richest states in contemporary India because of its rich mineral...
गोयबल्स की तरह फैलाई जा रही है मुसलमानों के ख़िलाफ़ नफ़रत, जोंबियों में बदल...
गिरीश मालवीय
एक बात पर गौर कीजिए। रविवार को पंजाब के पटियाला में लॉकडाउन के दौरान गाड़ी में बैठे निहंग सिख ने एक पुलिसकर्मी के...
Longing for the reconstruction of Babri Masjid
By Misbahuddin Mirza
December 6, 1992, exactly 500 years after Christopher Columbus landed on Santo Domingo island in search of gold, the Kar Sevaks of...
Is Onam an inclusive festival?
As people of Kerala celebrate Onam, this article tries to critically explore the emerging counter narrative of historically oppressed section against sustaining casteist tradition.
By...
Can Modi Win “Sabka Vishwas”? Did Modi implement Sabka Sath Sabka Vikas?
By Ram Puniyani
After 2014 victory Modi, Prime Minister of India had promised that he will implement Sabka Sath; Sabka Vikas (Taking everybody along, development...
A response to the article: “Zakir Naik Is Anathema to Secular Democracy, His Communal...
By Ubaid ur Rahman for TwoCircles.net
A fortnight ago, The Wire published an article titled Zakir Naik Is Anathema to Secular Democracy, His Communal Agenda...
View from JNU: Recent hooliganism by ABVP reveals its divisive communal political core
During a recent incident at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), members of the right wing student outfit Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) allegedly attacked a...
Does it matter who wins election in Araria?
By Ashish Ranjan and Kalyani B
This is where
the road ends
tarmac
of India shining
gives way
to gravel
and red dirt
of...
Liberal media to Modi’s aide
After the recent reverses BJP suffered in the assembly elections, many scions of so-
called liberal media have got busy theorizing the loss as anti-incumbency....
Thokk Do: Five years of Encounter-Raj in Uttar Pradesh
The staggering number of 'encounters' in Uttar Pradesh during chief minister Yogi Adityanath's term only make true his 2017 statement—a rather undeclared policy of...
Social media in India: need for balancing between state regulation and self-regulation
In the last few years, social media has emerged as one of the most important modes of instant relief mechanism during natural disasters and...
Love Jihad, conversions and laws curbing freedoms
By Ram Puniyani
Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance 2020, passed by UP on 27 November 2020, has set the ball rolling....
The University is a Graveyard. Burn it down
By Anubhuti Agnes Bara for TwoCircles.net
“…It leads to no good if institutions that grant titles, qualifications, and other prerequisites for life or a profession...
COVID vaccine: Is it Halal or not?
By Asad Mirza, TwoCircles.net
It’s not only the Muslims, even Hindus and Jews have raised questions about the use of the COVID vaccine, due to...
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan: Muslims for composite Indian nationalism
By Ram Puniyani
As per the recent communiqué from Chief Minister of Haryana M.L. Khattar’s, the Government of Haryana has decided to change the name...
भारत की जेलों में सबसे अधिक मुसलमान, एससी, एसटी समुदाय के लोग
वसीम अकरम त्यागी
रासुका के तहत जेल में बंद डॉक्टर कफ़ील ख़ान इलाहबाद हाईकोर्ट के आदेश बाद रिहा कर दिया गया. कोर्ट ने अपने आदेश...
CAA: Should United Nations Norms be respected in Domestic Policies?
Ram Puniyani
In the wake of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) UN High Commissioner, Michele Bachelet, has filed an intervention in the Supreme Court petition...
CAA: Discriminatory law that will break common fabric of communities
By Abdur Rahman, TwoCircles.net
The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, which was passed exactly one year ago by the Parliament, seeks to provide Indian citizenship to...
Finding Legality of ‘Lockdown” under Indian legal framework
By Dr Farrukh Khan and Somya Mishra
As the entire nation feels trapped amidst a lockdown, it is pertinent to understand the meaning of the...
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: What Led BJP to Abandon ‘Development’
Anwar ST. TwoCircles.net
Eighty-eight constituencies across 13 states went to polls on April 26 in the second phase of ongoing Lok Sabha elections. With the...
Why does Indian Media detest Muslims so much?
Syed Ali Mujtaba
Indian Muslims always get bad press and the blame is put on the community for not doing anything spectacular that may give...
क्या उत्तर प्रदेश में इस बार के नतीजे भाजपा को केंद्र की सत्ता से...
आसमोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net
उत्तर प्रदेश की दो सबसे बड़ी राजनीतिक पार्टी समाजवादी पार्टी और बहुजन समाज पार्टी के सुप्रीमो उस दिन(12 जनवरी) लखनऊ में गंठबंधन...
“Kesari”and “21 Sarfarosh” – a highly fictionalized ode
By Misbahuddin Mirza
Those familiar with America’s Civil Rights movement will tell you that African-American slaves were unofficially divided into two groups – ‘the field...
Challenges and remedies of dealing with social media hate-mongering
By Dr Farrukh Khan
I have been thinking of writing this for a long time, but could not do it due to facing backlash from...
Adityanath Yogi as Commissar From Allahabad to Prayagraj: What’s in the name?
By Ram Puniyani
Adityanath Yogi, Chief Minister of UP seems to be on the name changing spree. In his latest move he has changed the name...
Gender equality and human rights: “Let different flowers bloom in the garden of God”
By Shobha Shukla
"...All must be encouraged in an understanding of the fact that all human beings are born good, but they may be endowed...
Teaser of Film on Savarkar: Lies Galore
Dr. Ram Puniayni
Currently as the right-wing wing ideology is gaining ground many a film have already come to promote divisiveness, to glorify the icons...
French Laïcité and the onslaught of the Muslim Public Psyche
By Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui
As I write this piece, the public discourse is filled with noise – both in support of and against the decry...
Umar Khalid Remains Behind Bars: A Blow to Dissent and Democracy
Atika Sayeed
A Delhi court’s recent refusal to grant bail to Umar Khalid, an activist and former student leader, marks a significant milestone in the ongoing struggle...
Pragya Singh Thakur, symbol of BJP’s political ideology
By Ram Puniyani
Pragya Singh Thakur is no ordinary member of BJP, the ruling dispensation in the country. She is a MP from Bhopal and...
Unmarriageability: the unspoken stigma behind dishonour killings
By A.B.Karl Marx Siddharthar
Unmarriageability noun
1. (in India in the present) the practice of not marrying outside one’s caste
2. refers to the caste-based endogamous practice
3. a form of discrimination...
बहुत गहरे सवाल पैदा करता है बाबरी मस्जिद के आरोपियों का बरी होने का...
वसीम अकरम त्यागी
बाबरी मस्जिद विध्वंस मामले में सीबीआई की विशेष अदालत के 'निर्णय' से न्यायप्रिय दुखी हैं। कोर्ट के फैसले का 'सम्मान' के साथ...
स्त्री – शिक्षा के लिए सब कुछ दांव पर लगाने वाली सावित्रीबाई फुले
हमारे जानी दुश्मन का
नाम है अज्ञान
उसे धर दबोचो
मजबूत पकड़ कर पीटो
और
उसे जीवन से भगा दो!
तन्वी सुमन। Twocircles.net
उपर लिखे हुए एक-एक शब्द भारत की...
COVID19 and the transformation of social spaces
By Shiveshwar Kundu
The Coronavirus pandemic has unleashed a cycle of fear and anxiety among citizens around the globe. The virus has claimed lakhs of...
Three Nonagenarians who made the mark
By Mukhtar Ahmad
Recently I came across three personalities all more than 90 years two of them living and working and one died recently on...
Need for Reconciliation with Justice Babri Demolition and aftermath
By Ram Puniyani
In a recent judgment, the Supreme Court in a 2-1 majority verdict refused to refer the Dr. Faruqui verdict to Constitution bench....
कांग्रेस की नई हलचल, आखिर यह माजरा क्या है !
जावेद अनीस twocircles.net के लिए
कांग्रेस के संकट पर चर्चा अब उबाऊ हो चला है, यह बहुत लम्बे समय से चला आ रहा है....
Can Elder’s Club provide for inclusive development of Indian society?
In India, the elder’s club will serve many purposes. It would enable old persons of the community to learn livelihood as well as...
Meet Alfiya Pathan, Nagpur’s teenage boxing legend
Like most Indian female boxers, Alfiya has been inspired by the legendary Chungneijang Mary Kom Hmangte, popularly known as Mary Kom.
Moin Qazi, TwoCircles.net
It was...
Citizenship Amendment Bill and the issues of Muslims
By Wahidul Islam
Amidst all the debates of Citizenship Amendment Bill and the clutter of logics and illogic in support and against the bill, the ruling...
Where Are the Rest? ‘Panchayat’ Celebrates Rural India but Ignores Its Dalits, Marginalised
Adnan Ali, TwoCircles.net
The hit Amazon Prime series 'Panchayat' has become one of India’s most popular web shows, widely appreciated for its simple storytelling and...
Why the SP-BSP alliance spells doom for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh
By Aas Mohammad Kaif, Twocircles.net
The announcement of an alliance between two arch rivals of UP Politics: Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party may...
Azadi ki or Chalo: The future of India’s farmers’ protest
One battle appears won but the war for India’s soul rages on.
Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net
When the Kisan Morcha — the Farmers Protest — was...
Kerala sets model for yet another success
By Ashiq C. K
Islam first came to India in the Arabian peninsula, Kerala, the southernmost state of India, where Muslims constitute one fourth of...