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The Tablighi Jamaat in Mewat – Part 5

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By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net, The Tablighi Jamaat in Mewat series Succession Disputes

Who Speaks for the Muslims?

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Saad Razi Shaikh for TwoCircles.net Marginalized groups do not need saviours. What they require is a space and a voice of their own. In his book...

Ajmal files defamation suit of Rs 101 crore against Arshad Madani

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By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

Hamdulay Heart Foundation a ray of hope for zakat eligibles

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By Ziaulla Nomani, Heart disease is the number one killer in India and across the world. However most of the heart ailments are curable and death can be prevented, but, not everyone is not fortunate enough to bear the treatment and hospital costs and they just walk away from the hospital to choose a slow painful death. There are many who have even sold their only piece of land to foot the hospital treatment for cardiac treatment.

A Response to Hindu Rashtra and Idea of India

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By Saif Ahmad Khan, In an article published for The Millennium Post titled “Hindu Rashtra and the idea of India” (25th August, 2014), Delhi University Associate Professor Dr Sangit Ragi argued, “A river is always identified with and known after the dominant stream. So is the culture. When RSS talks of Hindu Rashtra it signifies the majoritarian makeup of this nation, which defines both its character and distinctiveness.” If we try and reconcile this analogy of Dr Ragi with the idea of India then we would but obviously conclude that India as a nation represents a culture which is Brahminic in nature, masculine in terms of gender and heavily tilted in favour of Hindi-speaking and comparatively fair skinned North Indians.

Delegation of Muslim clerics meets Akhilesh Yadav, submits demands for minority welfare

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By TCN News Lucknow: A delegation of Muslim clerics, led by Aishbagh Eidgah Imam Maulana Khalid Rasheed Farangi Mahli, met Akhilesh Yadav and submitted a...

Understanding the political implications of the verdict against Lalu Prasad Yadav

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By Professor Mohammad Sajjad for TwoCircles.net The conviction of Lalu Prasad Yadav by the CBI court in some of many cases of the fodder scam,...

Imaginary Categories, Real People

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Bracketing people into categories they neither identify with nor have any agency in creating it is as wrong as it is futile. The case...

Muslims’ Contribution to the Growth of Music in India

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By Kaleem Kawaja,

Music continued to flourish in medieval India in spite of the acquisition of political power by the Turks, Afghans and Mughals. It was patronized and thrived at the imperial courts of Delhi and Agra and at the centers of provincial kingdoms like the Sharqui kingdom of Jaunpur, the Khilji kingdom of Malwa and the Bahmani kingdom of Bijapur and Golcunda.

For national media, a Muslim arrested is a Muslim convicted until time proves otherwise

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By Amit Kumar for Twocircles.net You may not know too much about Abdul Sami, except that he is alleged to be an Al-Qaeda operative...

Subramanian Swamy’s amnesia or bluster?

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By Faraz Ahmad, Politicians seem to suffer from bouts of amnesia or they start with the assumption that the audiences they are addressing lack either memory or intelligence or perhaps both.

Mohammed Afzal: Warrior of the fallen Golconda Fort

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By Mohd Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,

Kashmir: Tourists’ paradise is also the paradise for non-local beggars

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By Bilal Bashir Bhat Srinagar: With the ongoing peak tourist season in Kashmir and the sacred month of Ramadan, a number of non-local beggars...

The Importance of Hindu-Muslim Dialogue

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By Maulana Waris Mazhari (Translated from Urdu by Yoginder Sikand)

Learning British Lingua in Jamia Nagar

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By Shafaque Alam,

Bihar Elections: Seven orgs urge political parties to ‘guarantee citizenship rights for Muslims’

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By Sami Ahmad forTwo Circles.net Bihar: In view of the upcoming Bihar elections, seven Muslim religious and social organizations have issued a public manifesto for...

Muslims should respond to the divisive ‘love jihad’ campaign with friendship towards secular Hindus

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By Kaleem Kawaja, "Abhee sub kuch nahin mita shaayad Hindu-Muslim main pyaar baaqi hai Ek Bhaayee kaa ek Bhaayee pur Pyar ka kuch udhaar baaqi hai " - Jawaid Badauni

How India wasted three Bharat Ratnas: Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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By Sharique Anwer for TwoCircles.net, On March 27, 2015 President of India, Pranab Mukherjee presented Bharat Ratna to former Prime Minister and one of the founding leader of BJP Atal Bihari Vajpayee. From Right Wing supporters to liberals almost everyone applauded the gesture of the NDA government to confer Atal Bihar Vajpayee with Country’s highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna. Also, I saw many staunch congress supporters tweeting against Bharta Ratna to former PM. Congress supporters attacked NDA government over Bharat Ratna to ABV is like “Foot in the mouth moment” in my opinion, after congress government’s own act of awarding Bharat Ratna to Indira Gandhi and Rajeev Gandhi in the past.

Is new Industrial Revolution in offing post COVID-19 pandemic?

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By Md Arif Hussain With the nationwide lockdown in India easing from June 1, the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be far from over. Safety, precautions...

Shaitan ki khala: Hinglish Vinglish

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TwoCircles.net presents a new column by self-proclaimed "Shaitan ki khala" Asma Anjum Khana. TCN is not responsible for her shaitani ideas but they are worth reading and pondering. By Asma Anjum Khan for TwoCircles.net, English-Vinglish! #english#englishvinglish#sirsayyedahmedkhan#education Ladies and gentlemen, have you got over your Mid May crisis? I did. Holidays, books and mangoes, helped. So now? Ready to take the new flight?

Structural Barriers to Media Openness in Kashmir

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By Tanveer Ahmad Khan and Wasia Hamid The modern age is one of global interactions wherein local happenings are shaped by the events taking place miles away...

All Muslim sects should agree to disagree: Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

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Based in New Delhi, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is a noted Islamic scholar. In this interview with Yoginder Sikand, he talks about the urgent need to promote dialogue and ecumenism between the different Muslim sects. YS: Although the Quran stresses Muslim unity, Muslims are divided into numerous sects, and some of them see the other sects as enemies. How do you account for this phenomenon of intense sectarianism and the fact that, unlike in the Christian case, there is really no Muslim ecumenical movement to bring the ulema of the different sects on a common platform for serious dialogue?

Book review: Communalism and the Intelligentsia in Bihar

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By Mohammad Sajjad

UP close UP: Majboor in Rampur

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net UP close UP series: Part 8

Indian Muslims need think tank and lobby group: SM Syed Khalil

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net

Republic Day: Few historical Muslim perspectives from Kerala

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By Abdul Basith, TwoCircles.net,

AA Raiba Retrospective begins at JJ School of Art

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By TCN News,

Why Asia’s longest iftar party failed to deliver?

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By Qadri Inzamam, On the footpath along the Dal lake, where the organizers of ‘Asia’s Longest Iftar Party’ had spread carpets, sat around 50-60...

निठारी कांड —असल इंसाफ़ अभी बाक़ी है…

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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...

Jamia Alumni meet held at UAE

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By TCN News, Dubai: Jamia Millia Islamia Alumni meet is successfully held at UAE which was attended by some of the well-established Alumni from...

The story of the devil called Muslim: Straight from the horse’s mouth

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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,...

SSA students witness India’s first robotics show

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From GUWAHATI:  Students of Srimanta Sankar Academy Guwahati became the first lot of students from the North East to witness a live performance of robots, made...

Nehru, Jinah and partition

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By Asghar Ali Engineer, Mr. Jaswant Singh, a senior BJP leader from Rajasthan has written a book on Jinnah which is expected to be published shortly. He has, according to a news item on NDTV, called Jinnah a secular person and thrown responsibility for partition on Nehru. Earlier Mr. L. K. Advani had also described Jinnah as secular while visiting Jinnah’s mausoleum in Karachi and paid heavy price for it as RSS asked him to resign as president of BJP. And now Jaswant Singh, a fairly independent minded leader has called Jinnah a secular person.

United we flourish, divided we perish

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By M. Zajam TwoCircles.net, “United We Stand, Divided We fall”, popular phrase used by our leaders during freedom struggle to counter British “Divide and Rule” policy. It was effective slogan which united people in freedom movement, irrespective of religion, cast and language differences. After Independence, this slogan lost its importance. .

UP 2012: An analysis of Muslim-led political parties

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net

Violation of minorities’ human rights increasing fast in India

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By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net The Congress-led UPA government at the centre has admitted that the violations of human rights of minorities in the county have increased, with Muslims, India’s largest minority, being the prime victim. TwoCircles.net has talked to human rights activists in Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. They say minorities’ human rights violations have increased in recent years in the garb of terrorism.

With Love from Obama, a ‘Chadar’ for Ajmer Sharif

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By Quaid Najmi , Mumbai: The 803rd Urs (annual feast) celebrations of the revered saint Hazrat Khawaja Moinuddin Hasan Chisty of Ajmer, starting Monday, will...

Manipuri Muslims feel left out, sidelined over Inner Line Permit issue

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By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net Imphal (West): Sharif Ahamed runs a tea shop in the Checkon Bazar Area of Imphal. A local, Ahamed...

A village without Muslims

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By Ganesh Dhamodkar So it happened. My native place, a village of 700, had 5-6 Muslim families. It was early 1990s and the people lived...

The RSS Hand in Militant Hindutva

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By Shaj Hameed, The February month cover story of the popular narrative magazine, The Caravan, published from Delhi, has already been discussed and debated a lot. Hindutva extremist Aseemanand, speaking to the magazine’s journalist Ms. Leena Regunath, revealed that all the bomb blasts carried out by his team had been with the RSS leadership’s knowledge and approval. Furthermore, the RSS’s national leaders including its general secretary Mohan Bhagwat and national executive member Indresh Kumar had met Assemanand in person and pleaded with him to go ahead with the attacks, at the same time advising him to take care as to not link such terror acts with Sangh Parivar Organisations, especially the RSS. Aseemanand, who has been accused in five bomb blasts across the country which killed a total of 199 innocent people, also revealed that Narendra Modi, Gujarat’s chief minister and BJP’s prime ministerial candidate for the next general elections, was a fan and supporter of his extremist activities.

(No) Train to Pakistan: Can Indian Muslims Escape the Cultural Invasion by Pakistan?

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By Asma Anjum Khan for TwoCircles.net, This is my Uncle Ghafoor ’s Secret Schindler’s List to be presented to the next PM on May 16 via Ashilesh bin Maulayam Important: This Schindler’s List has been sponsored by DNA specialist Dr.Abu Asim Azmi. Respected Ashilesh Sir,

Muslims under Modi 2.0

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By Haamim Kutub Javed Ahmed National Democratic Alliance ( NDA) is now no longer identified as such. It is Modi 2.0. The brand that catapulted...

History and Nature of the Ayodhya Dispute

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By Irfan Engineer,

Digvijay Singh shares dais with RSS, VHP functionaries during book launch on Ram Mandir

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By Afroz Alam Sahil, TwoCircles.net Delhi: Senior Congress leader and AICC General Secretary Digvijay Singh on Monday shared dais with RSS functionary Indresh Kumar,...

Remembering Guru Ravidassji: One of the greatest thinker and social reformer of India

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By Jaspal Singh Today is the  642nd anniversary of the  birth of Guru Ravidass also known as Raidas. He is one of the greatest thinkers...

India’s Muslims are finally breaking free of the mold

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There’s hope for India’s Muslims as they set new examples of excellence defying great odds By Aijaz Zaka Syed for TwoCircles.net

Nagabanda massacre and the other side of Assamese intelligentsia

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By Abdul Kalam Azad, Morigaon, Assam: Nagabanda High School is one of the oldest educational institutes of Morigaon district of Assam. The school is situated near the Nagabanda Bazar, about 15 KMs from the district headquarter. The healthy rural market, the nicely planted trees at Nagabanda Junior College, huge playground with pavilion and the green agricultural fields surrounding the area make it scenic and beautiful. But who knows Nagabanda is carrying a huge amount of pain and agony?

Book Review: Muslims in Indian cities – Trajectories of Marginalisation

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Book edited by Laurent Gayer and Christophe Jaffrelot By Danish Khan for TwoCircles.net,

Three mosques: Muslim generosity would electrify Hindu masses

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By Saeed Naqvi The 25th anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition has rekindled debate: Why was it demolished, historical wrongs, Mandal Commission inviting a Mandir...

“To Die” is not the only one that Kashmiri youth have

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By Bilal Ahmad Malik for TwoCircles.net In one of my articles titled “A Political Struggle for Denied Rights” which I wrote for Greater Kashmir dated...

The mystery of missing Muslim female rulers

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By Raihanaa Hasan

Reservation for Muslims in West Bengal – Gimmick or Affirmative Action

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By Sabir S. Ghaffar, The Constitution is the State Religion of India. Every state, administration, judiciary, and every citizen is duty bound to abide by the Constitution. Equality of every citizen irrespective of caste, religion, language, place of birth, profession etc. is the vision and aim of the Constitution. If in any office, or state administration, or in any post the representation of any community is below its proportion of population, it must be understood that inequal treatment has been meted out to that particular community.

Savita Ali: Raising her voice to highlight atrocities against Dalit and Muslim women

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Patna: Savita Ali remembers the time when she was in school, in a village called Naraina, district Panipat. She had just...

Asif Ibrahim, new chief of the Intelligence Bureau

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net

बिहार नफ़रत के आगोश में है… और कौन हैं जो चैन से बंसी बजा...

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नासिरूद्दीन, TwoCircles.net के लिए बिहार को नफ़रत की आग में झोंक दिया गया है. इसे फ़िरकावाराना फ़साद कहा जाए या दो पक्षों में टकराव या...

Madhyamam: A Muslim Media Success Story

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By Yoginder Sikand,

Justice at last for Haniffa and 7 other Muslims

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By Prof. M.H. Jawahirullah, Kunangudi Haniffa, one of the founders of Tamilnadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam and the first treasurer of Pattali Makkal Katchi, and 7 others who were languishing in prison for 13 years were acquitted of all the terror and conspiracy charges by the Poonamalle special bomb blast cases court.

Ramadan begins and ends with confusion every year, this year is no exception

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Ramadan fast starts Saturday in India, except for those who start on Sunday By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net

नर्मदा रिटर्न दिग्गी राजा : बढ़ गई है राजनीतिक प्रासंगिकता…

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जावेद अनीस, TwoCircles.net के लिए  मध्य प्रदेश के पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री और कांग्रेस के वरिष्ठ नेता दिग्विजय सिंह की 6 महीने की निजी और धार्मिक यात्रा...

A letter to a friend who is getting married

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By PA Abdullah My Dear Friend Assalamo alaikum wa rahmatullah!

Police Brutality in India: Why? What can be Done?

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By Kaleem Kawaja,

The magic wand of Mr. Modi

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By Shaiq Ali Khan for TwoCircles.net If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it...

‘जिस छुआछूत व जाति-भेद के दंश से बचने को दलितों ने हिन्दू धर्म त्यागा,...

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आर.एल. फ्रांसिस, TwoCircles.net के लिए ईसा मसीह ने दुनिया को शांति का संदेश दिया था. लेकिन गरीब ईसाइयों के जीवन में अंधेरा कम नहीं हो...

Legal literacy an effective tool to control violence against women in India

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India has slipped to the 112th spot from its 108th position in 2018 in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index 2020, which...

Maverick freedom fighter and poet of romance

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By Vikas Datta, Disproving Percy Bysshe Shelley's description of poets as "unacknowledged legislators of the world", he combined his illustrious poetic career with membership of the Constituent Assembly that drafted free India's constitution. This responsibility followed a four-decade stint as an outspoken, unbending freedom fighter across the political spectrum, during which he was possibly the first to demand complete independence and coin the slogan "Inquilab Zindabad". Yet his abiding fame is due to the haunting lyric of a youthful, unsuccessful but unforgettable love.

Mob lynching: let us act now

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By Irfan Engineer Mob lynching has drastically increased in recent years, particularly since the election of the BJP government. There has been fourfold increase in cow...

CAA: Discriminatory law that will break common fabric of communities

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By Abdur Rahman, TwoCircles.net The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, which was passed exactly one year ago by the Parliament, seeks to provide Indian citizenship to...

Babri Masjid demolition and Liberhan Commission report

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By Asghar Ali Engineer, Justice Liberhan submitted its report to the Government of India. The Commission was set up 10 days after the demolition of Babri Masjid and it took 17 long years and 48 extensions before it submitted the report on June 30th of this year (2009). However, the report has still not been tabled in the Parliament and is expected to be tabled during this winter session. But parts of the Report have been published in Indian Express

BJP’s Rashtriya Ekta Yatra: Heading in wrong direction

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By M. Zajam,

Book Review: Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir

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By Sadia Dehlvi,

Javed Habib: A Character of Greek Tragedy

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By Urdu Media Monitor, جاوید حبیب : ہجوم سے تنہائی تک Javed Habib: Hujoom se Tanhai Tak Compiled by: Masoom Moradabadi Reviewed by: M Ghazali Khan Published by: Khabardar Publications, Z-103 Taj Enclave, Gita Colony, Delhi 110031, Email [email protected], Mobile: 09810780563 If you were asked to name a personality who studied at AMU, was a selfless activist, fearless and gifted orator as well a writer, launched a newspaper but had to stop it, lived an austere saintly life and could not earn even as much as to be able to buy a basic four wall residence, you would be excused to think of Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar or may be Maulana Hasrat Mohani.

A year after Aler encounter: Families ask questions that no one can answer

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

The Myth of Hajj Subsidy

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By Muhammad Farooq,

Fact Finding Report: Sangareddy Communal Violence

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A fact finding team of Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee consisting of Prof. Rehana Sultana, Lateef Mohammed Khan, Kaneez Fathima, M.Mandakini, S.Q.Masood, Md. Ismail Khan...

पहले तो हमारी सोच का दायरा इतना छोटा नहीं था…

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तरन्नुम सिद्दीक़ी, TwoCircles.net के लिए भारत के तमाम नागरिकों को भारतीय संविधान के तहत यह अधिकार हासिल है कि वो जिस धर्म को चाहे, उसके...

Killing of elephant in Kerala has nothing to do with Malapurram Muslims

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Syed Ali Mujtaba Anti-Muslim propaganda fails to die in India. After the Tablighi Jamaat episode, now Muslims of Malappuram district of Kerala are being targeted...

Zahra Daudi: The Rebel with a Cause

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By Dr Mohammad Sajjad,

What, it is to be a Muslim in India today?

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By Prof. Dr. Rameeza. A. Rasheed for TwoCircles.net, If your exposure to Muslim lives is through popular media then you believe that Muslim’s main profession is smuggling. Every beard and skull cap wearing men, particularly youth is at least remotely connected with a terrorist group. Neighbors don’t move closely, with the Muslim families who follow their dress code. It is propagated constantly that, every Madrasa is a breeding ground of violent actions. It is believed that, they don’t teach Islamic principles and general education but, implant principles of vengeance and Jihad (most misunderstood word).

Envisioning a post-Apocalypse India

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By Shah Nawaz Afaque, A lot of speculations are being made as to what would nation-states look like after the pandemic recedes. Some experts believe...

Inclusion of Dalit Muslims in Scheduled Castes: Apex court rekindles hope

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By Mohammad Shahanshah Ansari,

The Tablighi Jamaat in Mewat – Part 4

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By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net, The Tablighi Jamaat in Mewat series Partition, Mewat and the TJ

From scavenging to doctoral dreams: An inspiring journey of Sunil Yadav

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“Even if 100 people from my community of scavengers exit from this inhumane occupation and move towards a dignified life, I will feel my...

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