Photo Essay: Farmers protesting at Shambhu Border
On 6th December, farmers heading towards Delhi from the Shambhu border (Punjab) to place their demand to enforce a legal guarantee for minimum support...
In Pictures: Released after 13 months, student activist Asif Iqbal Tanha adjusts to life...
Student activist Asif Iqbal Tanha was released on June 17 from New Delhi's Tihar jail after remaining incarcerated for 13 months for a case...
“We are here to fight for our rights,” protesting farmers say they won’t deter...
By Danish Pandit, TwoCircles.net
Thousands of Indian farmers are camping on roads leading to New Delhi, protesting against the new farm laws passed by the...
In Pictures: Evicted thrice in 5 years, displaced women in Assam village decry poor...
Since the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in Assam in 2016, several poor families in Dholpur char have been evicted thrice— the...
Photo Essay: Saharanpur’s woodcarvers battle decline in industry, stress amid pandemic
The decline in demand and supplies has badly affected many traditional crafts. Woodcarving in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh is one of them. Artisans and traders...
Nearly 8 months after fire destroyed their camp in Delhi, Rohingya refugees await basic...
Scores of Rohingya families living at a makeshift camp in near New Delhi’s Madanpur Khadar area are living a meagre existence, with poor access...
Thirsty Streets in Photos: The Plight of Kusumpur Pahari Amid Delhi’s Water Crisis
Anushka Kogta and Mohsin Javed, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: Nestled within a 1 km radius of the upscale enclave of Vasant Vihar, Kusumpur Pahari grapples with persistent...
तस्वीरों में किसान आंदोलन : बढ़ती जा रही तपिश,दूर तक दिखता नही समाधान
टेक्स्ट कैप्शन - आकिल हुसैन
फ़ोटो-निखिल जोशिया Twocircles.net के लिए
देश में लाए गए तीन कृषि कानूनों का विरोध जारी है,इसे किसान आंदोलन का स्वरूप दिया...
In Pictures: India’s unfolding Covid disaster
The second wave of the coronavirus in India is rapidly devolving into a catastrophic epidemic, with hospitals bursting at the seams, oxygen stocks running...
In Pictures: Septuagenarian Solim Uddin from Assam begs to earn money to fight ‘illegal...
A former detainee from Assam, septuagenarian Solim Uddin walks for several kilometres every day seeking alms and help to raise money to feed himself...
तस्वीरों में रमज़ान : जामिया में इफ्तार में जुटे छात्र
सिमरा अंसारी।Twocircles.net
रहमतों का महीना ‘रमज़ान’ की आमद के बाद हर कोई अल्लाह की इबादत में जुट जाता है। इस महीने को बहुत ही पाक...
Devoid of work, artists of Kathputli colony in Delhi turn to odd labour jobs
As part of India's first in-situ slum redevelopment project in a public-private partnership, Kathputli Colony in Shadipur, Delhi, is being developed as a mall...
Rebuilding homes: the life around Delhi’s Bawana slums
A fire that erupted in a slum cluster in New Delhi's Bawana on March 30, 2021, destroyed approximately 60 Jhuggis (a slum dwelling typically...
In Photos: Stories of Communal Harmony in Jamia Nagar
Jamia Nagar in New Delhi has been vilified in certain sections of the mainstream press and called ‘mini-Pakistan’ and ‘unsafe for Hindus.’ This TCN...
In pictures: Remains of the clash at Jahangirpuri
Cases of violence against Muslims were reported in at least eight states in India in recent days during the Ram Navami processions, followed by...
In Pictures: The last Bhil Adivasi folk artists of Gujarat
The Bhil Adivasi folk musicians of the Narmada district in western Indian state of Gujarat are facing extinction as these musicians and artists are...
तस्वीरों में : समय से पहले बाढ़ जैसे हालात, फंसे लोग ,बहे जानवर
बिजनोर : उत्तराखंड में हो रही कई दिन से तेज़ बारिश के चलते गंगा किनारे के कई जनपदों में बाढ़ के हालात पैदा हो...
“Being Dalit in India is a sin,” Saharanpur’s Dalits recount facing caste-discrimination all their...
By Musheera Ashraf, TwoCircles.net
Saharanpur: Dalit’s represent over one-sixth of India’s population. The Indian constitution outlaws caste discrimination and the practice of ‘untouchability’. It prohibits...
In Pictures: Climate refugees in Assam face ‘targeted evictions’, rue govt apathy
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) decision to take over the 77,000 bighas or 25454 acres of land would mean hundreds of families in Assam...
Hanging by the leaves: Overwork, meager income, price rise mars livelihood of these Adivasi...
By Nazish Hussain, TwoCircles.net
Every morning the daily market area of Ranchi is occupied by scores of women coming from rural areas in the periphery...
Blue is the warmest colour: How Ambedkar Jayanti was celebrated at Parliament Street in...
Aatika S, TwoCircles.net
Every year lakhs of Dalits, Bahujan and Adivasi gather at Parliament Street in Delhi along with their allies to celebrate the birth...
In Pics: Language an Evidence, Identity a Crime? In Gurugram’s Bengali Settlements, Fear has...
Sana Kausar, TwoCircles.net
Fear does not knock here. It enters quietly. It has found a permanent shelter in Gurugram’s tin-roofed shanties, housing migrant labourers from...
In Pictures: Visually-impaired Judo player from Tamil Nadu rues losing opportunity after contracting Covid-19
Manoharan Janakiraman is a 31-year-old visually impaired Judo player from Sholavaram, a small town in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He is...
In photos: Authorities foil attempts by Jamia students to screen BBC documentary
Police officials sprung to action at Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) (university) on Wednesday ahead of the planned screening of the controversial documentary at the...
“They only demolish homes of defenseless and weak,” despite UN intervention, demolition at Khori...
The Supreme Court ordered the demolition of a settlement in Khori Gaon in Faridabad, Haryana on June 7 and given the municipal corporations until...
Delhi Cop’s Unique Initiative Helps the Underprivileged; Provides Them Education
Sanjana Chawla/ TwoCircles.net
Than Singh, a resident of Rajasthan, started his very own little school called “Than Singh Ki Pathshala” in 2015 to help students...
Photo Story: AIMPLB Holds Protest Against Waqf Amendment Bill 2024 at Jantar Mantar
Sheikh Muhammad Abul Lais, Sidra Fatima/TwoCircles.net
The All-India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) staged a protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on March 17...
तस्वीरों में देखिए अलीगढ़ का रमज़ान : रौनकें तो वो नही है,मगर अहसास वही...
मोहम्मद कुनैन रज़ा Twocircles.net के लिए
रमज़ान पिछली बार की तरह इस बार भी कोरोना महामारी के दौरान आया है। पिछली बार पूरा रमज़ान...
In Pictures: Community kitchen at Dhobi Ghat offers hope, succor to displaced people
Following the Dhobi Ghat Pathshala, the women-led Dhobi Ghat Jhuggi Adhikar Manch established the Dhobi Ghat Community Kitchen with the help of the All...
In Pictures: Amid pandemic, award winning Chennai based Dalit folk artist Karthick Annan takes...
Karthick Annan is a 35-year-old Dalit folk artist from Chennai, mastered in different folk art forms produced from an indigenous culture in Tamil Nadu...
Ragpickers seen through the prism of art
The underprivileged and marginalized ragpicker community has rarely been depicted in art forms in India.
Aatika S | TwoCircles.net
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त्रासदी : बाढ़ में बुरी तरह डूब गया है उत्तर बिहार
जिब्रानउद्दीन। Twocircles.net
उत्तर बिहार में पिछले एक महीने से बाढ़ की भयावह स्थिति बनी हुई है। जिसके प्रभाव में आकर लाखों लोगों का जीवन...