Celebrating ‘Vadh’ of opponents in embedded in Hindutva politics
By Shamsul Islam for TwoCircles.net
The Information and Technology minister in Modi's Cabinet, Ravi Shankar Prasad, a seasoned RSS cadre slammed online trolls for expressing...
क्या इस्लाम सिर्फ़ लड़कियों पर लागू होता है?
लेनिन मौदूदी, TwoCircles.net के लिए
पिछले साल की तरह इस साल भी मऊ नाथ भंजन में ‘एक शाम, तालीम के नाम’ प्रोग्राम का आयोजन किया...
Muslim women do not need the ‘support’ of BJP to raise their voice
By Khushboo Khan for TwoCircles.net
The Supreme Court verdict over triple talaq, following a long battle in court, has been debated across the country with...
Holding onto Ambedkar: The emergence of BAPSA and the challenge to Left and Right
By Abhay Kumar for TwoCircles.net
Hundreds of students cheered and clapped when a senior activist of the Ambedkarite students’ organisation BAPSA (Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students’...
Hajra ASW: The Iron Lady of Islam
By Asma Anjum Khan for TwoCircles.net
As children, we all have read that great civilizations are born near the rivers. Once upon a time, a civilization...
Manufacturing Muslim ‘Criminals’: The Hindutva formula
By Shamsul Islam for TwoCircles.net
The most prominent ideologue of RSS, MS Golwalkar, declared Muslims and Christians as 'internal threat' number ONE and TWO respectively....
BJP plays the caste card knowing it won’t get the Muslim vote
By Amulya Ganguli
When the Supreme Court excluded the "creamy layer", or the well-off sections, among the backward castes from the benefits of reservations in...
तीन तलाक़ पर उग्र राजनीति के ख़तरे
अभय कुमार
सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने जैसे ही तीन तलाक़ के मसले पर अपना फ़ैसला सुनाया, वैसे ही इस पर फ़िर से उग्र राजनीति शुरू हो...
Revisiting Babasaheb on India at 70: For Dalits, there has never been much to...
By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net
All photos by Daisy Katta
August 15 has come and gone; delved into, reflected upon, and discussed at length. Yet, the familiar...
ट्रिपल तलाक़ : इस्लाम में क्या है?
तरन्नुम सिद्दीक़ी
इस्लाम और इस्लामिक देशों में ‘तलाक़’ कभी कोई मसला नहीं रहा. सच तो यह है कि हमारे देश में मुसलमानों की शिक्षा की...
The everyday ‘Agnipariksha’ of UP Madrasas: Hindutva must now be tackled innovatively
By Shamsul Islam for TwoCircles.net
On the eve of 71st anniversary of India’s Independence, the government of UP led by a senior leader of Hindu...
Kill us here but don’t send us back: Rohingya refugees
By Mohammed Shafeeq
Hyderabad, (IANS): Anxiety is writ large on the faces of over 3,800 Rohingya Muslims living in this city amid reports that the Indian...
Is Congress-Trinamool moving towards an alliance in Bengal?
By Milinda Ghosh Roy
Kolkata, (IANS): Is West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress and the Congress moving towards an alliance ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls?...
विपक्षी दलों के लिए आख़िरी चुनाव ही होगा 2019
दिवाकर
तमाम मत-भिन्नताओं के बावजूद नीतीश कुमार के इस बयान से असहमति की गुंजाइश कम दिखती है कि 2019 में नरेन्द्र मोदी से मुक़ाबला करने...
Shared value an important lever in PM’s vision of New India 2022
By Amit Kapoor
On the 75th anniversary of the Quit India movement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged citizens to create a new India by 2022...
Modi’s inclusive call: Need for religious leaders to build bridges
By Frank F. Islam
As India celebrates its 71st Independence Day, it must remember the sacrifices made by leaders of the freedom movement. It was...
क्या मृगतृष्णा बन गया है धर्मनिरपेक्ष गठबंधन?
राम पुनियानी
जनता दल यूनाईटेड (जदयू) के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष और बिहार के मुख्यमंत्री नीतीश कुमार ने महागठबंधन तोड़ कर अपने पुराने साथी भाजपा से एक...
RSS not in favour of President’s rule in Kerala
By Brajendra Nath Singh
Thiruvananthapuram, (IANS): The RSS on Saturday demanded that the Centre depute a fact-finding probe by a statutory body into the killings of...
Time to revive the spirit of 1942
Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam
After decades of politics under the British Raj the Indian National Congress decided finally on August 8, 1942 that enough was...
Rejected for President? Mr Advani, you were never the choice for RSS to begin...
By S. Divakar for TwoCircles.net
The Presidential election is over, but Narendra Modi has been and continues to be widely criticised for ignoring L.K. Advani....
आडवाणी के पीछे संघ कभी रहा ही नहीं…
लालकृष्ण आडवाणी के पास सीमित प्रतिभा है, यह संघ को शुरू से पता है
दिवाकर
राष्ट्रपति चुनाव ख़त्म हो जाने के बाद भी लालकृष्ण आडवाणी को...
वैसे, नीतीश कुमार पर किन्हें भरोसा था?
नासिरूद्दीन
क्या सिर्फ़ नीतीश कुमार पर बात कर बिहार से निकली बहस ख़त्म की जा सकती है?
क्या महागठबंधन से बाहर होने के लिए अकेले...
बिहार का बवंडर : अब लड़ाई चुनावी हार-जीत से कहीं आगे की बात है…
जावेद अनीस
बिहार ने एक बार फिर देश की राजनीति में बवंडर ला दिया है. बिहार के मुख्यमंत्री नीतीश कुमार ने आख़िरकार अपनी “अंतरात्मा...
Mandsaur cow vigilante attack: 27th this year
By IndiaSpend Team
The attack on two women in Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh suspected of carrying beef (though it turned out to be buffalo meat)...
Bring out white paper on lynchings Rising parochialism threatens orderliness in India: Let...
By Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood
During late 2014 and early 2015 with attacks on Christian churches continuing and extreme rights groups going ahead with their ‘ghar...
नीतीश ने राजद या कांग्रेस से कोई ‘गद्दारी’ नहीं की…
नासिरूद्दीन
इसमें दो राय हो ही नहीं सकती कि नीतीश कुमार ने अपने लिए जो फैसला किया, वह बिहार के विधानसभा चुनाव के जनादेश के...
वंदे-मातरम विवाद : कुछ सच जिनको जानना ज़रूरी है
शम्सुल इस्लाम
बंकिम चन्द्र चटर्जी द्वारा रचित गीत वंदे-मातरम फिर एक बार चर्चा में है. इस बार हलचल आरएसएस के प्रिय नारे 'हिंदुस्तान में रहना...
Bihar: Nitish Kumar’s Masterstroke or His Last Trump Card
By Tariq Hasan
There is no doubt that by changing tracks overnight, Bihar Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar has proved that he is the ultimate master...
Two Lok Sabha by-polls changed the political scenario of the country in the past....
By Mohammed Faisal, TwoCircles.net
The first by-poll was in 1978. At that time, Indira Gandhi was ousted due to the imposition of emergency. India’s political...
By joining hands with the BJP, Nitish Kumar might have just ended his political...
Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
Nitish Kumar has resigned. Again. Keen watchers of the career of Nitish would have noticed that in the past fifteen years, resignations...
निठारी कांड —असल इंसाफ़ अभी बाक़ी है…
अफ़शां खान
दिल्ली के क़रीब एक छोटे से गांव में निठारी की कोठी नम्बर—5, मुल्क का एक ऐसा ख़ौफ़नाक पता है, जिसका ज़िक्र हो...
Pranab Mukherjee set for his new address
By Somrita Ghosh
New Delhi, (IANS): 10 Rajaji Road, the new abode of outgoing President Pranab Mukherjee, is all ready to welcome its newest resident.
The eight-room,...
Pope Francis’ efforts to promote inter-religious unity: A lesson for current day India
By Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood
In mid July 2017, the Interfaith Coalition for Peace organized a talk at India Islamic Cultural Centre (IICC), New Delhi by...
दम है मायावती बनने का!
आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net
बहुजन समाज पार्टी की अध्यक्ष बहन मायावती हमेशा से ही अपने फ़ैसलों से राजनितिक पंडितों को आश्चर्यचकित करती रही हैं. शुरुआत...
क्या लिखने से कोई फ़ायदा भी होता है?
मोहम्मद अनीस उर रहमान खान
असफल और मेहनत से परहेज़ करने वाले लोगों के मुंह से अक्सर ये सुनने को मिल जाता है कि “भाग्य...
इज़राइल से दोस्ती ठीक, मगर फ़िलिस्तीन को न भूलें…
संतोष कुमार झा
पश्चिम एशिया में बसा इज़राइल से केन्द्र में मोदी सरकार के आने के बाद भारत के आपसी संबंध प्रगाढ़ हुए हैं....
24 Pargana communal attacks: Muslim fundamentalists emulating the Hindutva genre of violence
By Shamsul Islam for TwoCircles.net
RSS, the leading flag-bearer of the Hindutva politics and the most significant motivating spirit behind Modi government at the Centre...
Why madrasas must embrace modernity along with preserving tradition
By Mukhtar Ahmad for TwoCircles.net
From the earliest days of Islam, the issue of education has been at the forefront on the minds of the...
We have wanted to be like a European nation-state, but are we ready to...
By Jaspal Singh for TwoCircles.net
Why did India choose to adopt European nation state in spite of its long history of various other state formations?...
क्रिकेट की पिच पर जारी नफ़रत का खेल
अभय कुमार
भारत-पाकिस्तान फाइनल मैच के फ़ौरन बाद दर्जनों मुसलमानों के ऊपर मुक़दमें ठोक दिए गए और कितने को गिरफ़्तार कर जेल भी भेज...
Rehman Sahib – A Short Tribute
By Naved Masood
What was apprehended for the last couple of days came to pass last evening; Mehmood ur Rehman Sahib (1942- 2017) completed...
By reacting to provocation, Indian Muslims are falling into a well-laid trap
By Tariq Hasan for TwoCircles.net
Reports emanating from Basirhat in North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal pertaining to the communal violence which erupted there...
क्यों अय्यूब पंडित और जुनैद की हत्या एक समान नहीं है?
शाहनवाज़ आलम
हाल ही में श्रीनगर के जामा मस्जिद के बाहर डीएसपी अय्यूब पंडित की भीड़ द्वारा हत्या को एक हथियार की तरह उन लोगों...
Loss of faith in legal system blamed for Jharkhand lynching
By Nityanand Shukla
Ranchi, (IANS): Mobs are increasingly delivering "instant justice" in Jharkhand -- and getting away with murder.
Over the last two months or so, a...
An Eid like no other: Why Muslims of India have a lot of tough...
By Tariq Hasan for TwoCircles.net
The first reaction to Prime Minister Modi’s rather belated words of condemnation of the spiralling incidents of the lynching of...
For Modi, the real test will be taming ‘gau rakshaks’
By Amulya Ganguli
A year ago, the Prime Minister had admonished the gau rakshaks (cow vigilantes) in no uncertain terms. He did so again last...
Family debts main cause of Indian farm suicides
Nearly 70 per cent of India's 90 million agricultural households spend more than they earn on average each month, pushing them towards debt, which...
मध्य प्रदेश की शिवराज सरकार में ‘त्राहि त्राहि नर्मदे’
जावेद अनीस
हम पुराने समय से ही कर्मकांड करने में माहिर रहे हैं. ज़्यादातर का मक़सद खुद का कल्याण करना होता था. इधर मध्य...
A contrarian view on #EidWithBlackBand
By Sheikh Khurshid Alam for TwoCircles.net
Amidst blaring Bollywood numbers doing a surgical strike through my windows, I am trying to pen down my thoughts...
Dalit for President: Tokenism wins
By Amulya Ganguli
It's a no-brainer, for the result is known before the contest. The support which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been able...
Farmers in 3 Marathwada villages create oasis in suicide-prone region
By Saurabh Katkurwar
Jalna (Maharashtra), (IANS) When massive crop failure and farmers' suicide afflicted the Marathwada region in Maharashtra during the 2012-16 drought, farmers in...
Fasting days and feasting nights at Delhi’s buzzing Jama Masjid
By Mohd Asim Khan
New Delhi, (IANS): The silence was broken by a siren, followed by an azaan -- a prayer call -- from the...
Is a consensus possible on the new President?
By Amulya Ganguli
For a party known for its hubris, the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) decision to consult the opposition for a consensus on the...
Dalits still converting to Buddhism, but at a dwindling rate
By Manu Moudgil
Around 180 Dalit families converted to Buddhism after caste violence in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh in May 2017. Bhim Army, the...
गाय से डरना मना है, यह हमारी भी अपनी है…
तरन्नुम सिद्दीक़ी
आज कल कोई भी न्यूज़ पेपर हो या कोई न्यूज़ चैनल… ऐसा लगता है कि जैसे हर तरफ़ एक अजीब सा खौफ़ का...
Is India faced with a 3.1 lakh crore farm-loan waiver? And will it help?
By Alison Saldanha & Prachi Salve
As demands for farm-loan waivers grow across Punjab, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Karnataka -- after Uttar...
सोशल इंजीनियरिंग के लिए इतिहास से छेड़छाड़
राम पुनियानी
विभिन्न समुदायों को धार्मिक आधार पर ध्रुवीकृत करना और हिन्दू समुदाय में नीची जातियों का निम्न दर्जा बनाए रखना, हिन्दू राष्ट्रवाद का प्रमुख...
Why Modi avoids the media
By Amulya Ganguli
In another two years, Narendra Modi may well enter the Guinness Book of Records for failing to hold a press conference. In...
मोदी के तीन साल: युवा विद्रोह या राजनीतिक जीत?
साक़िब सलीम व शरजील ईमाम
प्रधानमन्त्री नरेन्द्र मोदी के तीन साल पूरे होने के साथ ही सब ने उनके अब तक के कार्यकाल का आंकलन...
Police, Protest and Iftar: Resisting RSS in the Jamia campus
By Umar Aman for TwoCircles.net
This is Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, a time during which Muslims across the world keep fast....
Fighting Islamophobia, one tweet at a time @MuslimVoicesIn
By Muslim Voices of India
Started in August 2016, Muslim Voices of India have gathered over five thousand followers in just ten months. The Initiative...
मध्य प्रदेश सरकार की कुपोषण पर ‘श्वेत पत्र’ का क्या हुआ ?
जावेद अनीस
मध्य प्रदेश के लिये कुपोषण एक ऐसा कलंक है, जो पानी की तरह पैसा बहा देने के बाद भी नहीं धुला है....
जामिया में इंद्रेश की आमद हमारे अज़ीम रहनुमाओं के ख़्वाबों को कुंद करती है
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
जामिया मिल्लिया इस्लामिया भारतीय मुसलमानों के लिए सिर्फ़ एक इदारे का नाम नहीं है, बल्कि ये यूनिवर्सिटी जंग-ए-आज़ादी के सालार मौलाना...
The story of the devil called Muslim: Straight from the horse’s mouth
By Rajendra Sathe
The article was originally published in Marathi and can be read here. This article has been translated by Dr.Asma Anjum Khan.
#Muslims, #Mumbai, #Marathi,...
Why Naseeruddin Shah is wrong on several counts?
By Mahtab Alam
Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah’s much advertised article was published on Friday in Hindustan Times as its concluding part of the series titled,...
AMU charged with depriving non-Muslim students of lunch during Ramadan
By Tariq Hasan
ALIGARH : Despite the efforts of the AMU authorities to clarify the misgivings which have arisen following some media reports accusing the...
Babri Masjid trial may reveal BJP’s communal face
By Amulya Ganguli
New Delhi, (IANS): The proverb, "Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet ... with exactness grinds He all", can be said...
Delhi Government not serious about addressing female foeticide, claims Asian Center of Human Rights
By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.netAsian Center for Human Rights (ACHR) in its report, 'Delhi: Disabling the Girl Child?' has stated that there is little seriousness...
कल्याणकारी योजनाओं में आधार का पेंच
जावेद अनीस
2007 में शुरू की गई मिड-डे मील भारत की सबसे सफल सामाजिक नीतियों में से एक है, जिससे होने वाले लाभों को...
New Vice Chancellor of AMU offers olive branch to teachers
By Tariq Hasan for TwoCircles.net
The newly-appointed Vice Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University, Prof. Tariq Mansoor has, in his first week in office, taken...
The WhatsApp Republic: Unfriending Saudi King Salman and Learning To Be Politically Savvy
By Dr. Asma Anjum Khan for TwoCircles.net
Our mornings used to start with roosters crowing, loud gurgles of the old neighbour, and swoosh-swoosh of water...
BJP’s Dalit outreach under threat
By Amulya Ganguli
There is a long way to go before Uttar Pradesh can become Uttam Pradesh, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised after his...
Political parties add fuel to Saharanpur fire
By Mohit Dubey
Lucknow, (IANS): Politicians have never shied away from using crime, riots or caste and communal clashes for furthering their interests. The latest...
इस्लाम और मुसलमान का दम भरने वाले लोग…
मोहम्मद अलामुल्लाह
लगभग दो साल बाद एक मौलवी साहब से आज सुबह-सुबह मुलाक़ात हुई. मैंने यूं ही चलते-चलते उनकी खैरियत दरयाफ्त कर ली. लेकिन...
In 2 years, BJP govt electrified 13,523 villages; only 8% completely
By Mukta Patil
As many as 73 per cent of the 18,452 villages that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government identified for electrification in 2015...
मोदी सरकार के तीन साल और दलितों में टकराव व बदलाव की नई चेतना
फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
देश में आज से तीन साल पहले भाजपा की मोदी सरकार बनने के साथ ही लोगों में ये उम्मीद साफ़ देखने को...
Modi government in celebratory mode but concern over Hindutva outfits
By V.S. Chandrasekar
New Delhi, (IANS): Stepping into its fourth year in power on Friday, the Narendra Modi government is in a celebratory mood after...
Gulzar Ahmed Wani, who lost 16 years to false terror charges, now wants to...
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
Srinagar: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that a man charged with penal offence is innocent until proved guilty...
नए मोड़ पर मध्य प्रदेश का व्यापमं घोटाला…
जावेद अनीस
मध्य प्रदेश का व्यापमं घोटाला एक बार फिर नया मोड़ लेता दिखाई दे रहा है. मई का महीना मुख्यमंत्री शिवराज के लिए राहत...
Three years of Modi: Possibility of 2nd innings looms large
By Amulya Ganguli
Considering that the score line in the last round of assembly elections before Narendra Modi's third anniversary of the assumption of power...
Erdogan, democracy and the Indian response: A reply to Mohammad Bahzad Fatmi
By Noushad MK for Twocircles.net
Mohammad Bahzad Fatmi’s article against Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was the most expected and awaited piece by his readers...
Left behind, but not left out: How women in Birbhum took to handlooms to...
By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, Twocircles.net
Migration in India is neither a new event nor a region-specific issue. In fact, it would not be wrong to...
Honoring President Erdoğan is absolutely the right thing
Misbahuddin Mirza
When the renowned philosopher-poet Dr. Mohammed Iqbal wrote the Urdu couplet:
ہزاروں سال نرگس اپنی بینوری پہ روتی ہے
بڑی مشکل سے ہوتا ہے چمن...
Hindu Rashtra: Is it good for Hindus?
By Ram Puniyani
Hindu Rashtra is the goal of Hindu nationalist politics, which is also called as Hindutva. In contrast to Hinduism, Hindutva is a...
When hate hits home: NRIs wake up to racism
By Jaspal Singh
A forum on hate crimes against Indians and peoples hailing from South Asia is being held at MIT on Saturday May 6,2017...
Where is Najeeb? Drowned in Left parties’ crocodile tears
By Sharjeel Imam and Saquib Salim for Twocircles.net
Najeeb Ahmad, a first year Masters student of Biotechnology disappeared more than six months ago from the...
Gau Raksha, anti-Romeo and the deafening silences of PM Modi and the BJP
By Mushtaque Rahmat for Twocircles.net
There are few who have managed the art of silence and the craft of spewing caustic ideas/thought, and Prime Minister...
देश में मज़दूरों के लिए विपरीत समय, इनकी बदहाली और बढ़ेगी…
जावेद अनीस
यह एक जटिल और कन्फ्यूज़्ड समय है, जहां बदलाव की गति इतनी तेज़ और व्यापक है कि उसे ठीक से दर्ज करना...
Who will stop the BJP? No one in sight
By Amulya Ganguli
New Delhi, (IANS): After the resounding victories of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the UP assembly and Delhi municipal elections, the...
From angry young man to angry father: Vinod Khanna’s cinematic voyage
By Vikas Datta
New Delhi, (IANS): He came into prominence playing an angry young man in a 1970s classic and one of his last major...
Role of the youth in nation-building: Why they must remain incorrigibly optimistic
By Professor Mohammad Sajjad for Twocircles.net
The following is the text of a talk that Professor Sajjad was supposed to deliver at a college of...
The unapologetic Indian Muslim
By Sabiha Farhat
These are tough times for Muslims in India. But now that I look back and shed my ‘liberal’ prejudices – Muslims were...
Iqbal, tolerance and Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s wrong turn
By Umair Azmi for TwoCircles.net
In a recent piece in the Indian Express (April 19, 2017), titled “Iqbal's Wrong Turn”, public intellectual Pratap Bhanu Mehta...
काश! इन्हें भी समाज के मुख्यधारा में शामिल एक सामान्य इंसान माना जाता…
फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
दोपहर के सन्नाटे में तेज़ तालियों और गाने की आवाज़ ने आती हुई नींद को झकझोर दिया. पूछने पर पता लगा कि...
Muslims must work with other marginalised communitie to counter RSS propoganda
By Mukhtar Ahmad for Twocircles.net
The BJP’s spectacular victory in India’s largest state has swept away any remaining myth of the monolithic Muslim bloc vote....
Writers denounce nationalism, target ruling establishment
By Saket Suman
Dehradun, (IANS): The country's leading writers and intellectuals denounced nationalism and targeted the central government for propagating hate among the masses
on the...
Modi’s government has made human life cheaper than that of a cow
By Mushtaque Rahmat for Twocircles.net
A few days ago, Mohan Bhagwat asked for an all-India ban on cow slaughter. I once for all can’t agree...
Should Supreme Court favour Sikh beard but disapprove Jewish, Christian and Muslim beards ?
Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood, President, ZakatIndia.org
The Supreme Court of India recently offered to a suspended Muslim Maharashtra police constable the revocation of his suspension...
Sonu Nigam misses the notes in Azaan tweet
By Rehmatullah Sheikh
I was chilling with a couple of friends when the Maghrib (break of dusk) Azan went off. My friend nonchalantly comments -...
The dangers of communalising the issue of Kashmir
By Sajad Hassan Khan and Ishrat Mushtaq Malik for Twocircles.net
A new trend has begun in the politics of Kashmir-away from the hitherto practised stance-that...
Socrates, demonetisation and UP elections: A ‘walk’ with the philosopher in the streets of...
By Rashmi Bhushan for Twocircles.net
I looked at the weather and murmured, “There are ominous dark clouds gathering overhead”. A voice from behind asked– “Are...
‘Messiah’ politics around Uniform Civil Code and Triple Talaq must come to an end
By Mohammed Umar for Twocircles.net
State driven acculturation of minorities is often deemed as impinging upon the civil liberties, for the reason that it chokes...
Lessons from UP elections: Muslims must learn to forge alliances with parties based on...
By Dr. Saleem Ahmad for Twocircles.net
In the recently concluded election in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP achieved a landslide victory with almost 80.6% of seats...
Muslims must not give up against Sangh Parivar’s attempts to demonise them
By Mushtaque Rahmat for Twocircles.net
There seems to be the silent approval of a majority in India to the kind of frenzy and hysteria against...
Ajmer blast verdict vs Saibaba’s trial: Double standards of the Judiciary detrimental to the...
By Riaz Ahamed for Twocircles.net
The special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) that was hearing the Ajmer Dargah blast case pronounced its judgement...
Yogi gives UP’s bureaucracy the jitters
By Mohit Dubey
Lucknow, (IANS): For the burgeoning and slack bureaucracy of India's most populous state, peace of mind is the first casualty after the...
The controversy over Padmavati, and Bollywood’s soft war against Muslims
By Misbahuddin Mirza for Twocircles.net
Padmavati, a Bollywood movie being produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, is the latest in a plethora of movies showing inter-religious...
Why the Supreme Court’s idea of out-of-court settlement in Ayodhya is not practical
By Muddassir Ahmad Qasmi for Twocircles.net
The demolition of the Babri Masjid was not merely a communal insurgency which claimed hundreds of innocent Muslim lives...
Despite loss, BSP’s politics of social justice is the only antidote to BJP’s communal...
By Sanjay Kumar for Twocircles.net
The recent assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh (UP), one of the most populous states in India, has ushered in a...
Adityanath’s appointment indicates BJP pursuing Hindutva politics: Opposition
New Delhi, (IANS): Opposition parties on Saturday criticised the BJP after it announced Yogi Adityanath's name as the new Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh,...
Big picture: Why the electorate voted against all state governments
By Soroor Ahmed, Twocircles.net
A bigger picture emerging after the electoral verdict of March 11, 2017, shows that it was a vote against all five...
Modi is now more presidential than before
By Amulya Ganguli
Narendra Modi's emergence as the most dominant politician in today's India, as the Congress's P. Chidambaram has said, means that he is...
Stop blaming Muslim leadership for UP debacle: Akhilesh, Mayawati are the real culprits
By Murshid Kamal for Twocircles.net
Victory has many fathers but defeat is an orphan. In the triumphant camp, Prime Minister Modi is being credited for...
6 challenges for the new UP government
By IndiaSpend Team
With 200 million people, equivalent to the population of Brazil, but with an economy the size of Qatars -- which has 2.4...
Recent election results demand a re-look into the merits of the Electronic Voting Machine
By Mohammed Anis Akhtar for Twocircles.net
The integrity of the world’s largest democracy, India, depends on the reliability and validity of elections, held on a...
Why are Muslim voices always forced to be on the defensive in the mainstream...
By Nazish Hussain for Twocircles.net
A democratic polity guarantees freedom of expression to its citizens through various means. In the realm of our social life,...
This Ramlila presents an enduring tapestry of communal harmony
New Delhi, (IANS): Nestled in Uttar Pradeshs glass-factory district of Firozabad is Kheriya, a small village which for over 50 years now has been...
Dear BJP, spare us the moral high ground: your politics is no different from...
By Mohammed Rehan Ansari for Twocircles.net
The UP elections show that Narendra Modi’s charisma and Amit Shah’s strategies rolled over the new-born Samajwadi Party, the...
Does UP victory make Modi’s return in 2019 smooth?
By Vishav and Saurabh Katkurwar
New Delhi, (IANS): With the BJP sweeping Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and making major inroads into the north east with...
Campus face-off: BJP stumped by young idealists
By Amulya Ganguli
In the confrontation between the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and the Leftist students in the various campuses, the saffron brotherhoods muscular...
The myth of Hindu ‘minority’: Debunking right-wing propoganda
By Ram Puniyani for Twocircles.net
The biases and misconceptions about conversions and population growth have been used by communal forces to divide the society. This...
DU screams for peace, freedom
By Mudita Girotra
New Delhi, (IANS): Many among the few thousands of students and teachers who marched in Delhi University's north campus on Tuesday against...
Kashmir, Azadi and the hollowness of left-liberal solidarity
By Gowhar Fazili
While we must all defend the right to free speech regardless of the politics of people involved and condemn ABVP’s latest assault...
Education failure, leading reason for UP job woes, isn’t an election issue
By Shreya Shah
Bahraich and Mirzapur districts (Uttar Pradesh): "Path mera alokit kardo, naval prath ki naval rashmiyon se, mere ur ka tam har do,"...
In solidarity with Shehla Rashid
By Sana Khan for TwoCircles.net
So much has already been written, in support of her and against her, so much so that a few AMU...
SP battles to retain its supremacy in Phase-2 of UP polls
By Brajendra Nath Singh and Prashant Sood
Saharanpur/New Delhi, (IANS) : As the battle for ballot in Uttar Pradesh shifts to 67 second-phase seats, including...
UP elections and the missing ‘madam, chacha, neta and babuji’
By Mohit Dubey
Lucknow, (IANS) : The first phase of the elections to the 403-strong Uttar Pradesh state assembly, that ended on Saturday, was marked...
UP’s health variations: From worse than Haiti to better than India
By Oommen Kurian
At a time when Indias sex ratio at birth is low and declining -- from 909 (2011) to 887 (2014) -- there...
BJP takes poll management, ground work to next level in UP
By Mohit Dubey
Lucknow, (IANS) : If the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) could pride itself on professional poll management in the run-up to the 2014...
Third of UP voters cite power cuts as top election issue
By Shreya Shah
Almost a third of voters polled said power cuts were the biggest problem in Uttar Pradesh, according to a new survey conducted...
Old-timers, others miss electoral din in UP’s Agra
By Brij Khandelwal
Agra, (IANS) : As campaigning for the first phase of the seven-phased Uttar Pradesh assembly elections gains momentum, many old-timers and other...
गांधी के करामाती चरखे के बारे में हम क्या जानते हैं
नासिरुद्दीन
गांधी की ख्वाहिश थी कि हर घर से चरखा का संगीत सुनाई दें. गांधी का यही चरखा, पिछले दिनों खूब सुर्खियों में रहा. गांधी...
If Owaisi can criticise every leader in UP, why does he spare Mayawati?
By Soroor Ahmed, Twocircles.net
The strategy of All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen in the poll-bound Uttar Pradesh is different from the one adopted during the campaign ahead...
School girl in Assam raped, commits suicide after Panchayat offers family money to keep...
By Abdul Kalam Azad
When the entire country was celebrating 68th Republic Day, a tenth standard student of Sidhuni High School in Barpeta district of...
Why should Muslims vote for SP when it failed on promises made to the...
By Asif Moazzam Jamai for Twocircles.net
The Samajwadi Party came to power in 2012 with lucrative promises to the people of Uttar Pradesh. Sixteen points,...
Congress-SP embrace makes its anyone’s game in UP
By Mohit Dubey
Lucknow, (IANS) : The sealing of the electoral alliance between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP) has altered the political landscape in...
An eyewitness account of the Women’s March in Boston
By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net
“This is the biggest march I have seen,” said an old timer who seemed to be someone who have participated in lots...
‘Contact with Napoleon a death sentence for Tipu Sultan’
By Vikas Datta
Jaipur (IANS) : Napoleon's life and career disapproves the Leftist challenge to the "Great Man" theory of history, for he not only...
नफरत से टकराना यानी रोहित वेमुला हो जाना है
नासिरूद्दीन
‘गुड मॉर्निंग, जब आप सब यह खत पढ़ रहे होंगे, मैं आपसे दूर चला जा चुका होऊंगा.. मैं इस तरह की चिट्ठी पहली...
‘If Modi can demonetise, he can also revamp higher education and research’
By Sahana Ghosh
Mohanpur : The Narendra Modi government should show decisiveness of the kind that was on display over demonetisation to depoliticise and revamp regulatory...
Obituary: Makram Ali Laskar, a true Gandhian and a son of Assam
By Mustafa Barbhuiyan for Twocircles.net
Born in the year 1935 at village Nitainagar, Hailakandi in the district of then Cachar, Assam, Makram Ali Laskar had...
With no end to feud, Mulayam-Akhilesh look for life beyond the ‘cycle’
By Mohit Dubey
Lucknow: Attempts at striking some sort of a patch-up or compromise between the warring factions of the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP)...
Let’s welcome Kareena-Saif’s son Taimur
By Ram Puniyani
The domination of communal consciousness in social space is very frightening. The prevalent ‘social common sense’ looks at history through the prism...
Maharashtra-based NGO writes letter to UN Secretary General calling for intervention to save Rohingya...
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
Akola, Maharashtra: Indian Human Rights Association has written to the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in an attempt to save the...