मुस्लिम विरोधी पूर्वाग्रह से ग्रस्त मीडिया और बेगुनाह मुसलमान
मोहम्मद हुसैन अहमद Twocircles .net के लिए
सोमवार को बॉम्बे हाईकोर्ट ने 20 विदेशी तब्लीगी सदस्यों को रिहा कर दिया। लेकिन मार्च में उनकी गिरफ्तारी...
OFBJP now listed as foreign agent under US Law, ties with ruling BJP laid...
By Pieter Friedrich
The Overseas Friends of the BJP (OFBJP), after 29 years in operation in the United States, formally registered as a “foreign agent”...
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...
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...
Self determination – solution to crisis in Kashmir
Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai
This is an opportunity to explore a vexing but significant topic in the field of human rights: the Right of Self-determination....
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...
नौजवान साथियो… तो 2014 के पहले यह सब नहीं था
नासिरूद्दीन
हाल ही में व्हाट्सएप पर एक मैसेज मिला. इसे चुटकुला कहना ज्यादा सटीक होगा. चुटकुला कुछ यों था:
हमारे एक मित्र का बेटा 18...
सच्चा इतिहासः गांधीजी की शहादत, गोडसे और आरएसएस
-राम पुनियानी
हाल में (अप्रैल 2023) में एनसीईआरटी ने स्कूली पाठ्यपुस्तकों में से बहुत सी सामग्री हटाने का फैसला किया। हटाई गई सामग्री में मुगलकालीन इतिहास, गुजरात दंगे, वर्ण...
Is new Industrial Revolution in offing post COVID-19 pandemic?
By Md Arif Hussain
With the nationwide lockdown in India easing from June 1, the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be far from over. Safety, precautions...
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...
Equity Question of Muslim is a Myth India Finds a Report
Syed Ali Mujtaba
An audit report on the marginalization of Muslims in minority concentration districts in Bihar, West Bengal, Assam, and UP tears apart the...
RSS’s international wing Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh challenged throughout US
Speakers make 3-city tour to question platforming of HSS by local governments.
Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net
“I don’t think Mr Friedrich’s here anymore — he was...
Muslims in/of India: surrogate oppressors or colonizers?
A Muslim woman deconstructs how dominant majoritarian narratives reconstruct Indian Muslim women as the perpetual Other.
Misria Shaik Ali | TwoCircles.net
This is an article, an...
Farmer’s movement: Is ethics at issue?
In the modern world, in the world of industries and metropolis and the world governed by centralized rule, the farmer and the village have...
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...
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...
“You can cover the circus, but you can’t sleep with the animals”.
By Gurvinder Singh
The media also called the 'fourth estate' possesses enormous power to make or break governments, individuals and organisations.
Unfortunately over a period of...
Is Social Distancing: Myth or Panic?
Istikhar Ali, Lochan Sharma
Diseases have always harmed society’s cohesion, not just with its consequences, but the myth that broadens distance within family and society...
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...
“हालात तो सहाबा पर भी आए है, इससे भी मुश्किल आएं है अल्लाह हिम्मत...
तबलीग़ के साथ मेरे अनुभव
आसमोहम्मद कैफ़।Twocircles.net
तबलीग़ जमात की इतनी बैकवर्ड है कि मैंने अंग्रेजी बोलना ही इनसे सीखा था। मैं हिंदी मीडियम का छात्र रहा...
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...
Envisioning a post-Apocalypse India
By Shah Nawaz Afaque,
A lot of speculations are being made as to what would nation-states look like after the pandemic recedes. Some experts believe...
Analysing Fascism and other phrases thrown around these days
By Jaspal Singh
A young man, an undergraduate student has written and asked me, “Uncle what is Fascism? Some people in India and abroad are...
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...
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...
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...
The ordeals of Madrasa education
By Sadiya Rohma Khan
The tried and tested sagas, the typical appeasement of Muslim community just before any electoral is just so predictable. The power-packed...
Indian Muslims: A rich hunting ground for Middle Eastern rivals
By James M. Dorsey
When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently declared that Turkey was “the only country that can lead the Muslim world,” he probably...
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...
Fathima Latheef: Public memory versus memory of the margin
By Raniya Zulaikha, TwoCircles.net
Memory is often a construct. There are many factors influencing the popular memory such as movies, newspapers, books and so on....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Equality, diversity, inclusion: a new concept of future museums
Dr Fatma Faheem
Every year on 18 May since 1977, the International Museum Day is observed to raise awareness among people about museums, which are...
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
दास्तान -ए- आज़म : “कहाँ से छेड़ूँ फसाना कहाँ तमाम करूँ” !
आसमोहम्मद कैफ़। Twocircles.net
राजनीतिक हलकों में आज भी एक बात आम है कि 1989 में मुलायम सिंह यादव को मुख्यमंत्री चुनी जाने वाली अंदरूनी...
Kashmir needs solution not suppression
By Syed Mujtaba & Mirza Jahanzeb Beig
From 1989, the People of Jammu and Kashmir are being killed, tortured, humiliated, and enforcedly disappeared. Thousands of...
‘द केरेला स्टोरी’: फिल्म बनी दुष्प्रचार का हथियार
- राम पुनियानी
केरल का नाम सुनते ही हमारे मन में उभरता है एक ऐसा राज्य जहां शांति और सद्भाव का राज है, जहां निरक्षता का निर्मूलन...
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...
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...
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...
Reflections- On how Indians are always taken for a ride
By Jaspal Singh
After the recent elections, many people, specially left and liberals have raised the questions that how and why a large number of...
Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad, and national mythology – Part II
By Umair Azmi
In the first part of this series, Rajmohan Gandhi's defence of Patel as fair and not communally prejudiced was compared with Maulana Azad's...
Legal literacy an effective tool to control violence against women in India
India has slipped to the 112th spot from its 108th position in 2018 in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index 2020, which...
मुसलमानों की प्रताड़ना का नया हथियार है ‘लव जिहाद’ कानून
वसीम अकरम त्यागी
उत्तर प्रदेश सरकार द्वारा बनाया गया ग़ैर-क़ानूनी धर्मांतरण अध्यादेश हिंदू युवती से प्रेम करने वाले मुस्लिम युवक को जेल भेजने के लिये...
The calls from the constitution and how can we hear them?
By Md Farrukh Ilyas
Amidst the global chaos due to COVID19, the world is witnessing a new settlement for its respective governance. The global village...
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...
In Memory of Babri
By Waseem R.S
“Krishna, what is the case with your grave?”
I asked suddenly and he replied, excited. “We won in the High Court, Bhavanechi”
“What do...
बिहार : बदहाल उर्दू की दास्तान
फहमीना हुसैन, TwoCircles,net
वैसे कहने को तो उर्दू बिहार में ऑफिशियली सेकंड लैंग्वेज यानी सरकारी दूसरी ज़बान हैं लेकिन आज भी ये कहीं कोने में...
The Secular Dilemma: Understanding the Bihar Elections 2020
By Shah Nawaz Afaque, TwoCircles.net
The state of Bihar witnessed its high profile and extremely charged Legislative Assembly Elections amidst a pandemic situation and that’s...
Why BJP supporters and non-BJP supporters can’t remain friends anymore?
By Arif Hussain
Recently an old friend, an urbane corporate worker, mused on Facebook that what is it about this election that’s making it difficult...
Countering Hate and Violence: What Should Minorities Do?
By Ram Puniyani
The violence against religious minorities has been on the rise during last few years. Many a reports tell us not only about...
मोदी जी रॉयल्टी दो (एक आम मुस्लिम नागरिक की गुहार)
A poem in lighter vein
By Dr Nadeem Zafar Jilani
मोदी जी रॉयल्टी दो,
मुझ को गाली दे देकर
इतने वोट बटोरे हैं,
मुझे कोस कर जीत गए,
जितने गदहे, घोड़े...
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...
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...
Can we put a brake on rampant Islamophobia?
Dr Ram Puniyani
Islamophobia as a word came more into vogue after 9/11 2001 twin tower attack. In the aftermath the American media popularised the...
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 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....
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...
How Popular is the PM Mann Ki Baat? A Glimpse after its 100th Episode...
By Mohd Ziyaullah Khan
PM Modi's Mann Ki Baat program is a monthly radio address that has been a part of his public outreach since...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Chhello Show movie: India’s official entry to Oscars leaves a mark with its release
Pan Nalin’s Chhello Show is an ode to the magical world of cinema and takes the viewer back to the age 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...
Understanding Shaheen Bagh within the framework of farmer’s protests
By Izza Ahsan and Bilal Ibnu Shahul
Last year, around this time, I was travelling to New Delhi. I had woken up to visuals of...
Imaginary Categories, Real People
Bracketing people into categories they neither identify with nor have any agency in creating it is as wrong as it is futile. The case...
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...
State of leadership among the Muslim community in India
By Yash Nawaz
In this 21st century a Muslim is considered as the way he is being pictured in Bollywood movies. The Indian Muslims, second...
Islamophobia in Times of Corona
NailaAlavi
At a time when the world is drenched in the fear of a decreasing possibility to see a new tomorrow, Modi government is busiest...
Bhimayana: Where Gond Art Breathes and Ambedkar Speaks – A Visual Rebellion Against Caste...
“Democracy has not eradicated caste. It has entrenched and modified it. That is why it is time to read Ambedkar.”
– Arundhati Roy, The Doctor...
Suffocating dissent: the Modi regime’s COVID strategy
The mask slips from Modi’s faltering image as he responds to a “viral apocalypse” of “unprecedented proportions” by silencing critics of his approach.
Pieter Friedrich,...
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...
The Bill must never pass
By Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam
The Narendra Modi government has railroaded the Triple Talaq Bill through Lok Sabha on sheer strength of a brute majority, contemptuously...
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...
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...
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...
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...
बिहार में उर्दू के साथ भेदभाव पर उठ रहे हैं सवाल
जिब्रानउद्दीन Twocircles.net के लिए
मई 2020 का मामला है, जब बिहार के जिला दरभंगा मे स्थित सीएम लॉ कॉलेज के दरवाज़े से उर्दू में लिखा...
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...
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....
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...
Longread: Believing women who pray, evidence from scripture and history
By Roshan Nageena
Women and their status, role and position in society is a topic close to my heart. A picture widely circulated in WhatsApp...
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...
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...
Controversial Film ‘Hamare Baraah’ Sparks Outcry Over Anti-Muslim Stereotypes
Samah Qundeel, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: In sync with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s inflammatory rhetoric labelling Muslims as “people who have more children”, the upcoming...
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...
Fasting saints could become a curse for politics of Hindutva
By Sandeep Pandey
Former Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Professor Guru Das Agrawal, who became an ascetic in 2011 at the age of 79 years...
Glorifying self: Modi’s gimmick of washing feet of sanitary workers
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...
“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...
Build a Wall: Trump must see the Shining India, not the Seething India
Hasib Khan, Twocircles.net
“Uff tumhaare usool, tumhaare aadarsh! Kis kaam ke hain tumhaare usool! Tumhaare saare usoolon ko goonth kar ek waqt ki roti nahiin...
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...
Delhi Violence: Genesis of Carnage
Ram Puniyani
They say ‘history repeats itself first as a tragedy and then as a farce’. In case of India, communal violence not only keeps...
Majoritarian radicalization in post-truth India
By Syed Ali Mujtaba
Hindu radicalization is brimming at its seams but many among the community refuse to acknowledge this growing phenomenon under the Modi...
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...
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...
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....
भाजपा का संवेदनशील मुद्दों पर मौन धारण करना कहीं राजनीतिक जोड़-तोड़ तो नहीं?
संदीप पाण्ड्य
चाहे ऋषिकेश के अखिल भारतीय आयुर्विज्ञान संस्थान में थोड़ा अधिक मात्रा में पोटैसियम से पड़ा दिल का दौरा हो या 112 दिनों तक...
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...
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....
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...
Social Media as a Public Sphere: Where it is Heading?
By Shamsher Alam
The German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has given a concept known as ‘Public Sphere’. He defined the public sphere as “a realm of...
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....
Non-involvement of religious representatives in Muslim think tank IMPAR a concern
By Syed Khizar Ahmed
There is an excellent initiative in the news concerning the Muslims of India that over 200 prominent Muslims of India have...
पटना के कोचिंग संस्थानों के वर्चस्व की लड़ाई है भटकाव का कारण
तारिक़ अनवर चम्पारणी
प्राचीनकाल से लेकर वर्तमान तक पटना शहर का अपना एक राजनीतिक, सामाजिक और शैक्षणिक महत्व रहा है। बिहार का पहला कॉलेज पटना...
2020 in review: India is beset by crisis of majoritarianism, shrinking of democratic space
Syed Ali Mujtaba
India has moved into 2021 with several crisis facing it. Millions of Indians are looking at the government for solving this crisis....
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...
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...
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...
Pyare Khan: the journey of a socially conscious entrepreneur
Pyare Khan from Nagpur has spent around Rs 1 crore for procuring oxygen tankers, oxygen concentrators and cylinders. Through newspapers, he learnt about the...
Lack of attention on education, health magnified in Modi rule: Amartya Sen
By IANS
New Delhi, July 8 : Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen said the lack of attention on social sectors had taken a "quantum jump in...
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...
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...
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...
Post Article 370: Immediate Police Reforms needed in Jammu & Kashmir
By Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat
It has been more than 7 years since Omar Abdullah led government in Jammu & Kashmir, before tabling J&K Police...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Anti-trafficking bill ignores consenting sex workers
By Somrita Ghosh for IANS:
New Delhi/Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) Geeta (name changed), a resident of Sangli village in Maharashtra, was 19 when she became...
RSS: Connecting patriotism with religion for politics
By Ram Puniyani
The word ‘anti-national’ has been in vogue from last few years. Simply put, all those who are criticizing the RSS and its...
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...
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...
अंतरराष्ट्रीय जनसंख्या दिवस पर विशेष :संघ के बड़े एजंडे का छोटा सा हिस्सा है...
यूसुफ़ अंसारी
साल 2014 में केंद्र में मोदी सरकार बनने के बाद बीजेपी देश भर में अपने व्यापक एजेंडे को लागू करने की दिशा में...
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...
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...
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...
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...
‘False’ Narrative, ‘Concocted’ Stories: A Closer Look at Power Play of Propaganda Films
Devanshi Batra and Syed Ahmad Rufai, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: As India is witnessing its general elections for the year 2024, the big screen has become a...
TV serials and the rise of Hindutva
ShahNawaz Khan TwoCircles.net
I would argue Ramanand Sagar, and not the BJP, started laying the bricks of a Hindu Rashtra, although, perhaps inadvertently. The Ramayan...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Dialogue – The best way to resolve the Kashmir Issue
By Syed Mujtaba
Kashmir is a zone of chaos, among the highest militarised zones in the world. Kashmir is a bone of contention between two Nuclear...