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By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net

By Mahtab Alam On June 13, I received an email from Thouseef Madikeri, a national secretary of the Students’ Islamic Organization (SIO) of India, with...

By Shafeeq Hudawi Kozhikode: While the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and its associate organisations have been vociferously protesting against the crackdown in JNU and...

By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net Goalpara: The idea of theatre has different connotations and meaning for different people. In its most basic form, it...

By Rupa Abdi, TwoCircles.net

To the uninitiated, no two religions could be as far apart as Jainism and Islam. The former, carries the principals of non-violence to the extreme, wherein even the lowest life forms such as insects are not to be harmed; while in the latter consumption of certain birds and animals for food is a part of everyday life.

A review of English publications By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net This is the third year of our review of periodicals published by Muslim in India. The idea is to have a yardstick that can be used to measure the quality of publications by readers and also people associated with these magazines.

By Yoginder Sikand

Maulana Kalbe Sadiq, a leading Shia Muslim scholar, is the Vice-President of the All-India Muslim Personal law Board (AIMPLB). He has a Ph.D. in Arabic from Lucknow University and runs a chain of schools and colleges in Uttar Pradesh. In this interview with Yoginder Sikand, he talks about his vision for the Muslims of India and reflects on crucial international developments.

By Abdul Hameed, TwoCircles.net, The Caliphate or Khilafat is long gone, but the All India Khilafat Committee formed in India to protest its abolition continues to exist. In its heydays it organized several meetings against the British government and birthed the Indian independence movement. These days Khilafat Committee’s main public programme is organization of a procession on Prophet Mohammed’s birth day.

By A. Faizur Rahman for TwoCircles.net

By Abdul Basith MA, TwoCircles.net,

By Rahat Abrar, Two sparking eyes popping out of traditional Muslim attire burqa (veil) got the attention of the former first citizen of India, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Wipro Chief Azim Premji and the audience as Sumaiya, a girl student with hijab, got as many as 12 medals in the prestigious MBBS course at the 58th annual convocation at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). Her magnificent feat indicates that Muslim girls are also advancing in the field of education. A female can pursue the studies of MBBS by wearing traditional Hijab (Burqa).

By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net, Part 6 of the seven part TwoCircles.net series on Darul Uloom Deoband Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (JUH) came into existence in November 1919 by the initiative of some famous Ulema such as Maulana Mufti Kifayatullah, Maulana Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi, Maulana Sanaullah Amritseri, Maulana Abdul Bari, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Maulana Abdul Majid Badayuni, Maulana Daud Ghaznavi, Maulana Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, and Maulana Hifzur Rahman among others.

By Najiya O., TwoCircles.net, The epitome of love, the dear writer of Kerala Dr. Kamala Suraiya has bid farewell to this world. Malayalis’ own Madhavikkutty who secured an unforgettable place in the world of literature will now live in the hearts of millions through the works that eternalize her. The great writer who had been ailing for some months passed away at 1.55 am on 31st May in the Jahangir Hospital in Pune. She will be interred at the Palayam Juma Masjid in Thiruvananthapuram with State honours tomorrow. She was 75 and is survived by three sons.

By Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee, A fact finding team of Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee comprising Lateef Mohammed Khan, Kaneez Fathima, A. Srinivas, Shefali Jha, Adv. Gulam Rabbani, Adv. M.Mandakini, and Mohammed Ismail Khan visited the Arsh Mahal area of Kishan Bagh in Hyderabad city. Fact finding team met the people of both the communities and visited houses of victims, met their family members, members of the deceased, the spot of Nishan sahib (religious symbol of Sikh on flag), firing spot, grave yard and Gurudwara. Actually the Arsh Mahal of Kishan Bagh is located on the hill, from where we can see the whole city. This locality is attached to the famous Nehru Zoological Park and a lake named Mir Alam. It has come to our notice that the whole area of Kishan Bagh as well as the Zoo area is in fact Waqf property. Indeed it is a very beautiful place and the people who live in this area belong to Muslim community whose living standard is of below poverty line. It can be named as a slum area. Most of the people work as Auto drivers, fruit vendors and daily wage laborers. Adjacent to this area, there is a locality of Sikh community which is called Sikh Chawni. The Sikh population is around 1500. But the economic status of Sikh community is strong and most of them are businessmen. There are two 2 Gurudwaras and many Nishan Sahib in that small area.

By Syed Zainulabedin, TwoCircles.net,

By Masood Siddiqui for Twocircles.net The 21st century voter should have the capability to...

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net मेहसी (बिहार) : एक ज़माने में ‘बिहार का मोती’ कहा जाने वाला मेहसी अब बस एक नाम बनकर रह गया...

By IndScribe Why Yadavas are made villains so easily and why it is so common to talk about Yadav-raj or use words like Yadav-gardi? Aren't there...

By TCN News Hyderabad: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad believed India is a land of multiple languages, religions and cultures, said Prof. Anwar Moazzam while...

On April 7 2015, five people accused in the murder of two policemen were killed in an encounter in Aler, Nalgonda after the police...

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, Frail but agile is 77-year-old Radhakant Yadav. The blood in the weak Lohiaite body is still hot. Behind Hemant Karkare’s killing, he sees the forces that are active for racial supremacy on this land for five thousand years. Karkare was killed because he was exposing the nefarious design of Hindu fundamentalist groups, says 3-time MLA from Madhepura constituency in Bihar, in an exclusive interview with Mumtaz Alam Falahi of TwoCircles.net.

By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Hailakandi: The first thing that strikes you about Hailakandi, Assam, is that given the condition of the roads in its neighbouring...

By Dr. Md. Abdus Salam

By Shaheer Khan for TwoCircles.net Eminent Urdu writer Hamida Salim passed away on Sunday, August 16th at the age of 93 at her house in...

By Vishal Arora, IANS How can we expect the evil of communalism to go away if the commission investigating one of India's worst communal crimes, the demolition of the Babri mosque in 1992, makes civil society wait for more than 14 years -- without much hue and cry.

By Maulana Waris Mazhari (Translated from Urdu by Yoginder Sikand) The first step in the quest for inter-community dialogue is the search for common ground. Religious and cultural differences divide Hindus and Muslims from each other. This diversity need not necessarily be seen as intimidating, however. In fact, the Quran explains that diversity is natural. The Quran instructs us thus: ‘If God so willed, He could make you all one people’ (16:93).

By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net, After sixty-year-long judicial process, the hearing on Babri Masjid title suite came to conclusion on July 26, 2010 at the three-member Special Bench of Allahabad High Court comprising Justices S U Khan, Sudhir Agarwal and D V Sharma but the verdict was reserved which may be delivered on any day before 1st October because Justice D V Sharma is going to retire on that day.

By Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer,

Report released on June 20th, 2014 This fact finding exercise was coordinated by National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations (NCHRO). Human right activists from different regions of India participated in this inquiry. They are,

By Adnan Alavi, Anisa Sayyed has shot to fame with the gold medal which she won along with Rahi in the shooting event at Commonwealth Games.

By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Hyderabad: Not many people would consider giving up their comfortable, albeit hectic schedule in the US and traveling to...

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, The book Celebrating India: Reflections on Eminent Indian Muslims (1857-2007) provides biographical profiles of 150 patriotic Indian Muslims, many of them unsung heroes – those who did not become party to the two-nation theory. Author Meher Fatima Hussain, Lecturer at Jamia Millia Islamia, talks to Mumtaz Alam Falahi of TwoCircles.net on her book. What inspired you to write this book?

By Soroor Ahmed, TwoCircles.net,

By Abdul Basith MA, TwoCircles.net,

By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net Mumbai: The idea of working for your community does not necessarily mean that you have to be at the forefront...

By TCN News

By Najiya O., TwoCircles.net,

A bunch of dedicated, zealous IITians have set out to coach and empower poor talented Kashmiri students to get into prestigious educational institutions By Raqib...

By Yoginder Sikand The Great Rann of Kutch, stretching over much of the northern part of Gujarat’s remote Kutch district and spilling over across the border in Pakistan’s Sindh province, is a fragile desert ecological zone. It consists of flat sandy and stony plains that stretch as far as the horizon, interspersed with small rocky hillocks, dotted, in some parts, with thorny, ankle-length bushes. Large parts of the area do not boast of any vegetation at all, being covered with massive sheets of salt.

By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,

Series on Mewat – Part V By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net Hailakandi: The district of Hailakandi, Assam, has been a hotspot of political activity in the past few weeks, and...

By S. Aziz Haider, December 6 has arrived once again! 22 years have passed since the disputed Babri Masjid was razed to the ground. There is no doubt that the issue will be discussed once again in various forums and on social media. The young India of whom we are proud of and who dominates the usage on social media was either not born or was too young when politics changed the land of Ram Lalla in ’92. For them, it is an event in history of Independent India and nothing more.

By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net, Chandra Muzaffar is Malaysia’s leading public intellectual. Author of numerous books, mainly on religion, hegemony and resistance, he is the President of the International Movement for a Just World. In this interview with Yoginder Sikand he talks about various aspects related to Islam and Islamic assertion in Malaysia. Q: Could you tell us something about yourself and your academic and activist background? How did you get interested in Islam?

By Indscribe, The decision of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to remove Arabic, Persian and Pali from the list of optional subjects in the civil...

By Sabrina Iqbal Sircar for TwoCircles.net Hmm. Let me see now. I am a little tired actually trying to tell the world that Feminism...

Patna from no angle appears as the capital of India’s one of the poorer state. There is an urgent need to de-congest Patna in order to bring sanity to the madness there. No amount of urban planning will de-congest Patna. By Syed Ali Mujtaba, Just back from the ‘republic of Bihar,’ visiting its capital Patna. Very great feeling to be back home and nostalgia and fond memories of childhood haunted all through my stay there.

By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Ladrymbai (East Jaintia Hills): For Mohammed Abdullah, May 15 is an important, and probably a life-changing, date. The 45-year-old, a...

By Nayeem Showkat Khan, “Write a note on Aligarh Muslim University.’ My teacher at the Noor-ul-Islam High School in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district enunciated one...

Compiled by Dr.Ajmal About the Conference A four-day international “Sufi” conference was inaugurated by the Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi in New Delhi on 17 March....

By Umair Azmi for Twocircles.net An opinion piece in the Indian Expresspublished on April 22 asks Indian Muslims to flout the fatwa of...

By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Sufism is much misunderstood by both Muslims and non-Muslims alike. While Muslims think that Sufis are innovators in the religion and qabr-parast (grave worshipper) and therefore unacceptable, non-Muslims think that Sufism offers a peaceful alternative to violent face of Islam and therefore acceptable to them. The truth is somewhere between these two extremes and as Sadia Dehlvi aptly states in her book “Sufism: The Heart of Islam” it is “the spiritual undercurrent that flows through Islam.”

By Ather Farouqui, With the spectre of communalism raising its ugly head all across the country, Muslim ghettoization is emerging as a grave and complex problem that requires urgently to be addressed. It has a decisive bearing on communalism. Unfortunately, it has not drawn any serious attention.

By AnIndianMuslim.com

By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Rise of BJP almost always leads to shrinking political space for Muslims. BJP rules Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh- states that has...

By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net The name of Aamir Edresy may not ring a number of bells in the social circles of India,...

By Vanya Mehta, TwoCircles.net This article is part of a monthly series Reporting Rape in which we will aggregate the media coverage on atrocities against...

By Dr. Omar Khalidi

Read First Part here: Communal agenda and Hindi press in a globalizing India</a Read Second Part here: Religious Diversity and Hinduisation of press</a Dr Arvind Das, Global...

By Asghar Ali Engineer We are celebrating 150 years of our first war of independence this year. All communities in India, Hindus, Muslims and others not only took part in this war but also made supreme sacrifices for this cause. This war of independence created unprecedented unity between people of India from top to bottom, from ruling classes to common people. All united to mount greatest challenge to the British rule in India.

By Mansoor Durrani The period between 12th and 16th Century is considered the peak of Muslim rule in the world. In line with their...

Dr Arvind Das, Hindi press started its journey in May 1826 with the publication of a weekly called ‘Oodunta Martand’. In June 1854, the first...

By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Ali Anwar Ansari, son of a labourer, has come a long way since his bidi-rolling days. He has been a Member of Parliament of Rajya Sabha since 2006. In between, he has been a Grade IV government employee, activist, journalist, author and fathered a movement for Dalit or Pasmanda Muslims.

By Dr. Syed Ahmed for TwoCircles.net,

TCN series on Muslim women empowerment On International Women's Day, TCN is bringing great stories of Muslim women empowerment from different states of India -- Editor

By Asghar Ali Engineer,

By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,

सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net रूह अफ़ज़ा, ये कोई पेय या महज़ शरबत नहीं है. एक सभ्यता का नाम है. एक पूरे त्यौहार का नाम, एक पूरी...