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By Ravichandran Chakkiliyan, TwoCircles.net, On May 12TH, 2014 Dalit Stree Shakti, an organization based in Hyderabad fighting against violence on dalit women organized a seminar on "Judiciary and its Functioning" in the memory of Lakshmipeta dalits, a place in Srikakulam where 7 dalits were beaten to death by Thoorupu Kapu (men/women) (Backward Caste) in 2012. The Meeting was organized in Ravindra Bharati, Lakdikapool, Hyderabad.

Gulzar Azmi, Secretary (Legal cell) of the Jamiat E Ulama Maharashtra, seeks compensation for the people framed in the Akshardham attack case by police officers. By Sayed Abdul Aziz, The names of Adam Ajmeri, Mufti Abdul Qayyum Mansuri, Mohammed Salim Shaikh, Abdul Qadri and Altaf Hussain would have been lost in the dungeons of Gujarat’s prisons, had it not been for the sustained efforts of the Jamiat e Ulama Maharashtra (Arshad Madani).

By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Jammu: Even as the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar limps back to normalcy after their demands were...

फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net डेहरी ऑन सोन(बिहार): ऐसे कई नाम हैं जो इंसाफ़ की लड़ाई को अपनी ज़िन्दगी का मक़सद बना लेते हैं. फिर पूरी...

By Amjad suri for TwoCircles.net Indian prime minister has a penchant for playing political master-stroke. His sudden impromptu decision on demonetizing old currency...

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, TwoCircles.net series: Ayodhya 2009 Many would be surprised but it is a fact that the issue on which they communalized minds and polarized Hindu votes and came to power, has now few takers. The city, which sent shockwaves across the country when Babri Masjid was demolished by karsevaks on 6th December 1992, now hates them.

By Dr. Prasenjit Biswas

By P.S. Krishnan, IAS In this paper I have analysed “the promises” in the Manifestos of the two largest Parties of India, the Indian National Congress (INC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) pertaining to Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEdBCs), also known as Other Backward Classes (OBCs) or Backward Classes (BCs) (hereafter referred to as BCs).

By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, A university started by a Muslim, it not only has the word ‘Muslim’ in its name, but also has a predominantly ‘Muslim’ character. And, it bars girl students from entering the University library premises as it would purportedly ‘attract’ more boys.

The madrassas around the world were known as fountainheads of religious learning and guardians of tradition and had an increasingly important role in bringing...

By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net, Guwahati: Raham Ali is a farmer in one of the most backward areas of Assam in South Salamara of Dhubri...

By TCN News, New Delhi: A three-day seminar on Urdu’s classical genres was successfully organised by UGC Departmental Research Support (DRS) between February 26-28 at...

TCN Special Series: Part V on Jyotsna Bewa By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,

By Tanvir Salim,

Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam, The NDA government under Narendra Modi completed a month in office a couple of days ago. For some this was a moment to sit back and reckon what the government had been able to achieve in that small period of four weeks and two days. To be fair, that is a very inadequate length of time to judge the performance of a government whose prime minister has told Parliament in his motion of thanks speech that he would show his report card to the people and their representatives in 2019.

By Jaspal Singh, Today (March 23, 2015) is the 84th anniversary of the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev. These names have been part of my mental make-up as long as I can remember. I can remember their pictures in my grandfather’s house along with the pictures of Guru Gobind Singh and Guru Nanak. Chandarshekhar Azad and Kartar Singh Sarabha were the other two portraits in the house.

कैसे तमाम राष्ट्रीय व अंतर्राष्ट्रीय प्रयासों के बावजूद देश में बाल संरक्षण की हालत किसी बद से बदतर होती जा रही है... जावेद अनीस 26 साल...

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net बेतिया (बिहार) : राष्ट्रपिता महात्मा गांधी के सत्याग्रह का तपोस्थल चम्पारण अपने गौरवमयी इतिहास के 100 साल पूरा कर रहा है....

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Five years after Ministry of Home Affairs asked National Investigation Agency (NIA) to investigate Malegaon 2008 blasts, NIA on May 13,...

Prasad Mathew Chacko is the Regional Manager of Action Aid in Gujarat. He has been working with various peoples’ movements in Gujarat for almost two decades. In this interview with Yoginder Sikand he speaks about the challenge of Hindutva in Gujarat and about his views on how to counter it. Q: How did you get involved with different peoples’ struggles in Gujarat?

By Sameer Jafri,

By Soroor Ahmed, TwoCircles.net, The decimation of Mayawati-led hitherto strong Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh and the revival of the virtually defunct Dalit outfit of Bihar, Lok Janshakti Party, deserve an objective study. The former failed to open its account notwithstanding the fact that it managed to get about one-fifth votes of UP while fighting alone, whereas in Bihar the LJP won six seats when it got just 6.4 per cent votes. The only difference is that it contested in alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party.

By Raoof Mir, The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) registered its first impressive debut performance in a region outside its area of influence i.e. Hyderabad...

By Ram Puniyani, The coming to power of Narendra Modi in a way gave an open license to all the affiliates of RSS combine to indulge in open hate speech against the religious minorities. The current agenda behind the hate speech is to consolidate the communal polarisation of the society along lines of religion. The well-known case of MIM’s Akarbar-uddudin Owaisis’ hate speech has been despicable and very rightly Akbarudin Owaisi had to be in jail for some time. The case against him should be pursued and the legal course of action must be followed. At the same time, what about the hate speeches indulged in by the likes of Pravin Togadia, Subramaniam Swami, Giriraj Singh, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Sadhvi Prachi, Sakshi Mahraraj, Yogi Adityanth, Sanjay Raut and company?

Dr Rahul Pandey, On the 5th of November I was in Khandwa, a town in central India, taking part in a rally organized by the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), or Save the Narmada Movement. About 20,000 rural people, mostly landless farm labourers or small-medium farmers, many of them tribals, had traveled 50 to 400 km on tractors, trucks and buses to participate in the rally, all at their own expense. Every family carried a packet of food cooked at home to last for a day or two. The women with babies carried them along as well.

How Babri Masjid demolition gave birth to violence among Muslims in Hyderabad and how police fanned it further By Mohammed Siddique, TwoCircles.net, Hyderabad: As the country marks the 16th anniversary of the black day when the centuries old Babri Masjid was razed to the ground by the Hindu-militants, for the city of Hyderabad it is an important milestone for another reason. The day also marks the dawn of the era of militancy among the Muslim youth.

By Asghar Ali Engineer, The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assured the parliament that caste will be included in the current census. This was after Yadav leaders and OBC members of Parliament raised the issue and there was heated debate. The question arises why is it or is not necessary to include caste in counting people of India. Apart from caste even religion has not been included which also raises doubts in the minds of minorities. Maulana Madani, a Muslim leader and Rajya Sabha member has threatened to launch an agitation if column of religion is not included in the census form.

By Soroor Ahmed, TwoCircles.net,

By TCN News, Cambridge (USA): The 13th annual edition of the Harvard India conference saw protests against the death of Rohith Vemula, a Dalit research...

Riazuddin Ahmed lost his parents and a sister in the ghastly Nellie Massacre. But he has fought against all odds to revive the spirit to live. He has set up COMTI, a one man mission to compile biographies of Indian Muslim personalities whose contributions need to be remembered by the society.

By M Hanif Lakdawala, What do 13.81-crore Indian Muslims, who constitute 13.4% of the Indian population as per the Census 2001 figures, think about the terrorist attack in Mumbai? Unfortunately Indian intelligentsia and authorities are neglecting this multitude in the crucial war against terror. Muslim participation in war on terror How can India successfully fight a war without knowing what Muslim thinks and without active participation from one of its major communities?

By Paluvakka Mohamed Ameen, By expressing his biased or uninformed views on Jihad, India’s Home Minister P Chidambaram seems to be deliberately playing a political game in order not to lose the votes of the mainstream Hindu masses. A few weeks ago, he had described the demolition of Babri Masjid as a terrorist act by the RSS-backed groups. He might have thought that this has humiliated the Hindu voters and hence he has to attack Islam in order to equalise his party’s pretentious neutral stand.

By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net,

By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net "There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed 1,400 years ago by the Prophet all the time when he was in Mecca.” - Badshah Khan

By Dr. Zakir Naik My work over the past 18 years,using the Glorious Qur’an and teachings of the Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) has focused mainly on the clarification of important issues, including such topics as; Women’s status and rights, terrorism and the killing of innocent civilians, the profound message of and the route to Peace in Islam, the universal brotherhood based on the oneness of God, among several other topics.

Unheard & Unspoken: Terror stories from Madhya Pradesh: Part 2 By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net

By Md. Aftab Alam,

By Amit Kumar for Twocircles.net South Karimganj: Imagine if your party manages to win, with sizeable margins, all five assembly seats in an area...

Dr. Juzar Bandukwala teaches physics at the University of Baroda in Gujarat. A well-known and widely-respected social activist and journalist, he has been in the forefront of the struggle for justice to the victims of the recent state-sponsored violence directed against the Muslims of Gujarat. In this interview he speaks to Yoginder Sikand about his work and about the situation in Gujarat today. Prof. Bandukwala along with Dr. Ram Puniyani is the winner of Indira Gandhi National Integration award for 2006.

By Vikas Datta, Is there any common ground between revolution and romance, as expressed in poetry and music? Lenin didn't think so, admitting he loved hearing a Beethoven sonata, but couldn't listen to music much since it made him want to pat people's heads, though his "devilishly difficult job" called for him to beat their heads instead. But it is not difficult to identify parallels - for one, both activities call for a great deal of passion. The Indian subcontinent can boast of several people who effortlessly straddled both spheres. One of them was Faiz Ahmed 'Faiz," who even won the Lenin Peace Prize.

Repeated debate has always meant more TRPs but never really a step forward By Nita Khan for TwoCircles.net, It was August 22, 2011. A week...

By Kaleem Kawaja for Twocircles.net Assam has the second-highest percent (34) of Muslim population in India. Forty nine of its 126 Assembly constituencies...

By Dr. M. Iqbal Siddiqui There was an ambiance of festival in the village Shivnagri in Beawar region of Ajmer district in Rajasthan. About 40 boys, belonging to the Cheeta-Mehrat-Kathat clan were circumcised. Among them were Rahul and Akash, grand Children of Mangi Lal Kathat. He was happy and thanking Allah for granting him this opportunity.

By Amit Basole ہوئے مر کے ہم جو رسوا ہوئے کیوں نہ غرقِ دریا نہ کبھی جنازہ اٹھتا نہ کہیں مزار ہوتا hue marke ham jo rusva hue kyun na gark-e-darya