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...