Why the Madaris in India have failed to interact with fellow Indians
By Amir Hussain for TwoCircles.net
When the British took over from Mughals in India, one of their most important moves was to slowly replace Persian...
Dear Hindus: An open letter to fellow Indians
By Bobby Naqvi
The brutal murder of a poor Muslim labourer yesterday is not intended to terrorize Muslims, a community that is becoming immune to...
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...
Why the Left parties are unlikely to achieve much without support from Ambedkarites
By Badre Alam Khan and Sanjay Kumar for TwoCircles.net
The current debate within the CPI (M) has generated intensive discourse on the dilemmas to formulate...
In Tamil Nadu, Hindus observe ‘Allah Festival’ on eve of Muharram
By Syed Ali Mujtaba
Muharram is first month of the Islamic New Year. This month holds special place for the Muslims all over the world...
4 years of Najeeb’s disappearance and the lore of systematic betrayal
By Ahmad Khan, TwoCircles.net
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
The formidable sentence that author Milan Kundera wrote more...
How do we Promote Peace in India, Today?
By Ram Puniyani
We are passing through times when Hate against weaker sections of society and religious minorities is increasing by leaps and bounds. The...
The tale of two India Conferences
By Shabir Hassan for TwoCircles.net
MIT and Harvard, the two hallmarks of excellence and legacy are often being flaunted as the best places to learn....
Kerala sets model for yet another success
By Ashiq C. K
Islam first came to India in the Arabian peninsula, Kerala, the southernmost state of India, where Muslims constitute one fourth of...
Longread: Genealogy of Islamophobia and Construction of Muslims as Enemy in India
By Mohammad Saif
Being a Muslim in India is one of the biggest threats since the last few years, particularly in the reign of the...
Islamophobia and the professed Indian Left
In India, cyberspaces are predominant domains where the manifestation of ‘left Islamophobia’ is obvious and demands attention and redressal. Muslim assertions on cyberspaces and...
Religion as Peace: Countering Hindutva-led negative images of Islam
In many western media outlets, we are witnessing predominantly Christian spaces and culture being influenced by Hindutva ideology to propagate messages of hatred against...
A bullet to dissent: Free Speech, Indian Democracy and the murder of Gauri Lankesh
By Aabha J for TwoCircles.net
Late on September 5, noted journalist and human rights’ activist, Gauri Lankesh was shot dead at her residence by unidentified...
Socially-engaged Islam: A view from Kerala
By Yoginder Sikand,
Unlike much of the rest of India, Islamic organizations in Kerala are heavily involved in various forms of social activism, not limiting themselves simply to religious education and preaching or to petitioning the government for sops. This is one of the major reasons for the remarkable social, economic and educational progress that Kerala’s Muslims, who account for around a fourth of the state’s population, have witnessed in recent decades.
Holy Rights: a brave film essaying complex battle for gender rights by Muslim women
Samvartha ‘Sahil’, TwoCircles.net
Shot and edited between 2016 and 2019, at a time when Hindu fundamentalism in India has tightened its grip on state apparatuses...
Remembering Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin who listed scientific contributions of Muslim scholars
By Mukhtar Ahmad
Fuat Sezgin, founder of Historical Arab-Islamic Institute of Science at Johann Wolfgang
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany died in Istanbul on June 30 ,2018 at...
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....
Does Religion Matter? Communal Violence in India
Dr. Ram Puniyani
The carnage or to put it more precisely the anti Muslim violence in Delhi (February-March 2020) has shaken us all. Analysts are...
Introduction of compulsory attendance is a fatal blow to the idea of JNU
By Abhay Kumar for TwoCircles.net
The JNU administration has recently issued a circular, imposing “compulsory” attendance on “all regular registered students” from the winter semester....
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...
If freelance Muslim spokesmen do not shut up, it’s advantage BJP
By Saeed Naqvi
It is one of the great ironies of our times that Muslims are a problem for all political parties, except the BJP....
75 years of citizenship by choice: Where do Indian Muslims stand?
After BJP's win in the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that his government would work for the development of Muslims...
AMU Alumni Association: A living link with the alma mater
By Shaheer H Khan for TwoCircles.net
This short article was a modest attempt to pay respect to Aligarh fraternity owed to one of the greatest personalities...
Plight of tribal communities during COVID-19
By Faheem Muhammed M.P
As the world is facing the most dreadful pandemic of modern times, the indigenous population across the globe are exposed to...
यूपी में भाजपा की जीत के बीच कहाँ खड़े है मुसलमान !
आसमोहम्मद कैफ।Twocircles.net
देश के सबसे बड़े राज्य उत्तर प्रदेश में भारतीय जनता पार्टी चुनाव जीत गई है। संभवतः योगी आदित्यनाथ एक बार फिर...
‘द केरेला स्टोरी’: फिल्म बनी दुष्प्रचार का हथियार
- राम पुनियानी
केरल का नाम सुनते ही हमारे मन में उभरता है एक ऐसा राज्य जहां शांति और सद्भाव का राज है, जहां निरक्षता का निर्मूलन...
New stage of Muslim disempowerment -2
Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam
A few days ago, in this column I had discussed how the Muslim representation in parliament had been brought down to...
Group protests against US Ambassador Atul Keshap’s RSS visit
“Keshap has got to go,” say protestors outside US Congressman Ami Bera's California office.
Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net
As controversy continues to surround US Ambassador Atul...
Renowned historians urge Hindus, Muslims to recognize shared heritage
Scholars repudiate myths fuelling Islamophobia in India
TCN News
Prof. Harbans Mukhia and Dr. Audrey Truschke, and a prominent political scientist Dr. Shamsul Islam, came together...
Kasganj: The government must not allow the Tricolour to become a pawn in the...
By Abdur Rab Khan for TwoCircles.net
The unpleasant incidents that took place in Uttar Pradesh's Kasganj district on the Republic Day have diminished the dignity...
Adityanath Yogi as Commissar From Allahabad to Prayagraj: What’s in the name?
By Ram Puniyani
Adityanath Yogi, Chief Minister of UP seems to be on the name changing spree. In his latest move he has changed the name...
Has RSS and its cohorts Talibanized Hinduism in India?
Taliban doesn’t necessarily need to be turban clad, swinging AK47, loitering around the streets of Kabul, aiming to kill those who don’t necessarily agree...
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...
Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad, and national mythology – Part II
By Umair Azmi
In the first part of this series, Rajmohan Gandhi's defence of Patel as fair and not communally prejudiced was compared with Maulana Azad's...
Chhello Show movie: India’s official entry to Oscars leaves a mark with its release
Pan Nalin’s Chhello Show is an ode to the magical world of cinema and takes the viewer back to the age of...
Why did Maulana Madani and Mohan Bhagwat meet
The meeting between Jamiat-e-Ulema-Hind (A) chief Maulana Arshad Madani and RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat on August 30th Friday triggered a storm in the Muslim...
The politics behind observing ‘Horrors of Partition Remembrance Day’
To have genuine remembrance of the horrors of partition of the subcontinent, one should take a leaf from Germany where they have included the...
The students of AMU say a loud ‘No’ to RSS Shakha in AMU
By Maskoor Ahmad Usmani for TwoCircles.net
1925 marks the birth year of the hateful and terror-breeding organisation Rastriya Swayam Sewak Sangh, founded by Dr. K....
Communal tensions will not end until Hindus keep rewarding the BJP for its anti-Muslim...
By Mahmad Sidat for TwoCircles.net
The recent violence reported in Bengal and Bihar during Ram-Navami processions raises serious questions about the Indian society in general...
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...
शमी-हसीन विवाद : अब सुलह हो सकती है, मगर मिलन नहीं!
आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net
समाज पुरुष प्रधान हो सकता है, मगर वो झुकता औरत की तरफ़ ही है. क्योंकि जब हर तरफ़ बात होती...
“Modi talks about self-sufficient India but in Kashmir, they are doing opposite,” 15000 engineers...
By Shakir Mir
Srinagar: Hilal Rasool (now 45) was a young engineering graduate in 2003 when Kashmir was starting to emerge out of a decade...
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...
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...
HR Day: Shocking status of ‘Right to Healthcare’ in India
By Dr Kafeel Khan
10 December is celebrated as the Human Rights Day across the world. On this day, let us talk about the most...
100 years of Jamia Milia Islamia: Why the university is not ‘anti-national’?
By Md Mustafa
This year Jamia Millia Islamia University is celebrating 100 years of its founding (1920 to 2020) and in all these years, it...
नज़रिया : यूरोप में मुसलमान और इस्लाम के ख़िलाफ सर उठाती नफरतों की जड़...
वसीम अकरम त्यागी
स्वीडन में इस्लाम विरोधी नेता रैसमस पालुदन को गिरफ्तार किए जाने के बाद उसके समर्थकों ने कुरान जला दिया। कुरान की बेहुरमती...
सवर्णवादी व्यवस्था से पीड़ित पत्रकार मीना कोतवाल ने अब ‘सो कॉल्ड लिबरल-प्रोग्रेसिव सवर्ण पत्रकारों’...
मीना कोतवाल,Twocircles.net के लिए
सो कॉल्ड लिबरल-प्रोग्रेसिव सवर्ण पत्रकारों, प्रशांत कन्नौजिया को जेल गए हुए 50 दिन हो गए हैं. एक ट्वीट की वजह से प्रशांत...
US Congressman questions Ambassador’s meeting with “violent” RSS paramilitary
Rep. David Trone warned Ambassador Atul Keshap against lending “legitimacy” to RSS. Trone warned that by engaging with RSS officials and discussing their ideology,...
Caught between two extremes: Views of Sir Syed on gender, caste and nationalism
By Mohammad Sajjad for TwoCircles.net
As the birth bi-centenary of the distinguished reformer-educationist, Syed Ahmad (1817-98), a realist-pragmatist of 19th century India, and founder of...
Knowledge is power and the government controls it
By Saundarya Verma
India is a country so vast that even after inhabiting the worlds’ largest population, we have space for more people. We make...
ईशनिंदा, मुसलमानों की ज़िम्मेदारियां और विश्व समुदाय
वसीम अकरम त्यागी
पेरिस में मोहम्मद पैगम्बर ए इस्लाम वाले ‘अध्यापक’ की हत्या कर दी गई। इस अध्यापक ने क्लास के दौरान पैगंम्बर ए इस्लाम...
‘सर सैयद के मजार पर फातिहा, फूल चढ़ाने से कौम का कुछ भी भला...
मुर्शिद कमाल
हालांकि वो कभी अलीगढ़ का छात्र तो नहीं रहा लेकिन एक जमाने तक अलीगढ़ की सभ्यता पर मोहित और आसक्त जरूर था। अलीगढ़...
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...
Eleven years on, no justice for Makkah Masjid victims
By Kaneez Fathima for TwoCircles.net
It has been eleven years for Makkah Masjid bomb blast and subsequent police firing. During the Friday prayers on 18th...
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...
तबलीग़ियों ने जाहिलाना हरकतों से कोरोना फैलाया तो इन पढ़े लिखों ने क्या किया!
अश्वनी शुक्ला
माना कि तबलीग़ियों ने अपनी आउटडेटेड विचारधारा और जाहिलाना हरकतों से हजारों लोगों के जीवन को संकट में डाल दिया। लेकिन आधुनिक शिक्षा...
View from JNU: Recent hooliganism by ABVP reveals its divisive communal political core
During a recent incident at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), members of the right wing student outfit Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) allegedly attacked a...
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...
ख़्वाजा ग़रीब नवाज़ की शान लिखा गया में मौलाना अरशद मदनी का यह लेख...
जमीयत उलेमा ए हिन्द के सदर मौलाना अरशद मदनी ने मशहूर संत ख़्वाजा मोईनुद्दीन चिश्ती की शान में यह लेख लिखा है। इसमे उन्होंने...
Social Media as a Public Sphere: Where it is Heading?
By Shamsher Alam
The German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has given a concept known as ‘Public Sphere’. He defined the public sphere as “a realm of...
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...
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...
दलित उत्पीड़न के मामले में पूरे देश में शीर्ष पर है मध्यप्रदेश
जावेद अनीस, TwoCircles.net के लिए
मध्यप्रदेश को अमूमन शांति का टापू कहा जाता है, लेकिन शायद इस ‘शांति’ की वजह यहां प्रतिरोध का कमज़ोर होना...
Madhya Pradesh: Meet JEE Mains Topper Majid Hussain from Burhanpur
Abdul Wasim Ansari, TwoCircles.net
Bhopal: Majid Hussain, a resident of Madhya Pradesh’s Burhanpur district, recently grabbed headlines by securing the top rank in the Joint Entrance...