After 15 years of wait, Gulberg society verdict takes us back to square one
By Shaj Hameed for Twocircles.net
“The firing by Jafri played a pivotal role in inciting the mob” – CM Modi, allegedly the...
Assam elections: Polarisation over Bangla immigrants led to BJP victory
By Rekha Bhattacharjee
With the dust settling on a raucous election campaign and with a new regime taking the reins in its hands, an analysis...
गरीब और बेबस समाज के आईने में स्मार्ट सिटी योजना
जावेद अनीस
पिछले साल केंद्र सरकार द्वारा शहरी विकास के लिए 3 नए मिशन ‘अटल नवीकरण और शहरी परिवर्तन मिशन (अमृत)’, ‘सभी के लिए...
निज़ामुद्दीन का रमज़ान यानी मजबूरियों का रमज़ान
फहमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
दिल्ली: सड़कों पर भागती जिंदगियां, चिलचिलाती धूप और रोज़ा, इन सब में ज़ेहन कहां कुछ सोचने का मौका देती है. चलते-चलते रिक्शे...
Are Masjids in India serving their role?
By Dr Kouser Fathima for TwoCircles.net,
Mosques or Masjids are typically a place of worship where the Muslims gather to pray in congregation. Over...
Yoga is not in conflict with any religion or belief system
By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
As we look forward to celebrating the 2nd International Yoga Day, we must understand yoga in totality. Yoga is one...
कैराना विवाद: किसी क़स्बे या शहर में मुसलमानों का बहुसंख्यक होना ग़ैरसंवैधानिक है क्या?
पंकज श्रीवास्तव
कैराना का भाजपाई झूठ सामने आना कोई आश्चर्य नहीं, उसके दंगाई चरित्र का एक और प्रमाण ही है. देश की सबसे बड़ी पार्टी...
Politics of exodus
By Sadiq Zafar for TwoCircles.net
It is claimed that the exodus is happening in Kairana of Shamli district since the communal inferno of Muzaffarnagar...
Odisha to conserve 700 sacred groves to protect tribal culture
By Chinmaya Dehury
Bhubaneswar : An integral part of tribal culture, 700 sacred groves in Odisha -- out of 2,100 identified by the state government...
जानिए कि दुनिया में मुस्लिम न होते तो क्या होता?
सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net
बीते दिनों भाजपा की सांसद साध्वी प्रज्ञा ने कहा कि देश कांग्रेसमुक्त तो हो गया अब इसे मुस्लिममुक्त बनाना है. ऐसे भी...
In Mumbai, Marathwada migrants rise above poverty line
By Abhishek Waghmare
A migrant from Maharashtra’s drought-stricken Marathwada region triples her income - if temporarily - after moving to Mumbai, climbs out of poverty...
साध्वी प्राची के नाम खुला खत, चले जायेंगे मगर हम कुछ छोड़ेंगे नहीं
महेन्द्र दूबे
साध्वी जी, आप देश को मुसलमान मुक्त करना चाहती हैं, बेशक करिए. हम खुद उस देश में रहना नहीं चाहेंगे, जहां आप जैसे...
Anantnag by-poll: Mehbooba’s 1st electoral challenge after father’s death
By Sheikh Qayoom
Srinagar : Retaining her father's assembly seat is the first major political challenge Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti faces after...
‘Crop damage by wild animals declined 33%’
By Shreya Mittal
As two senior Indian ministers tussle over the declaration of some wild animals as "vermin", the damage to crops from animal attacks...
Rohingya refugee and Ramadan: A story of hope of a 16-year-old boy
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
Jammu: Muslims all over the globe are observing fasts in the holy month of Ramadan, so is Anamul Haq,...
Iran: No Cold War with China but Win, Win for all
By Saeed Naqvi
I don't exactly gasp but am puzzled by the indifference with which the media has treated two fascinating Indo-Iranian stories. Now that...
Manipuri Muslims feel left out, sidelined over Inner Line Permit issue
By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net
Imphal (West): Sharif Ahamed runs a tea shop in the Checkon Bazar Area of Imphal. A local, Ahamed...
एक गरीब बूढ़े का घायल जानवरों के लिए सत्याग्रह
सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net
वाराणसी: बनारस के जगतगंज मोहल्ले के एक कोने में एक सुनार की दुकान है. दुकान का नाम है ‘श्रीराम ज्वेलर्स’. औसत से...
Charity: Resetting priorities, redefining roles
By Mansoor Durrani for Twocircles.net
“Our leaders are inefficient” and “cruel” and “corrupt”! These are common complaints or discussion points in our parts of...
With UP in mind, Muslims to float common front to take on ‘communal forces’
By Sheikh Manzoor
New Delhi : Many Muslim leaders, worried about electoral marginalisation of the community, especially after the split in Muslim votes in Assam,...
अत्याचार की टोकरी में दलित और मुसलमान
आसिफ इकबाल
मुस्लिम जमातों और नेताओं की ओर से यह बात बहुत पहले से कही जाती रही है कि आतंकवाद के नाम पर मुसलमानों की...
चौपट संस्कृति में तीन फ़िल्में
सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net
यह बहस बड़ी है कि असम और अरुणाचल प्रदेश के बाद का समूचा पूर्वोत्तर भारत ‘भारत’ है भी या नहीं? लेकिन इसे...
Why are Yadavas vilified?
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...
संघ की छांव में जलता मध्य प्रदेश
जावेद अनीस
मध्य प्रदेश वह सूबा है जहां संघ परिवार अपने शुरुआती दौर में ही दबदबा बनाने में कामयाब रहा है. इस प्रयोगशाला में संघ ने सामाजिक स्तर पर अपनी गहरी पैठ बनाने में सफल रहा है और मौजूदा परिदृश्य में हर तरह से हावी है.
In making of Terror through fabricated trials : Framed and Acquitted
By Hisham ul Wahab P for Twocircles.net,
The news lines in the inner corners of print and visual media, which we have been reading in...
In Bastar, state violence is not an aberration, but a norm
By Rajaraman Sunderasan for Twocircles.net,
Between the theaters of war, the tribal population of the Bastar district of Chhattisgarh is under severe repression of the...
Triple Talaq and the silence of the Muslim men
By Dr Kouser Fathima for TwoCircles.net
Many Muslim women are against the Triple Talaq , Around 50 thousand women have signed a petition asking...
Old Delhi gears up for month of fasting and feasting
By Mohd Asim Khan
New Delhi : As the sun went down behind the majestic dome of Delhi's Jama Masjid, the lights came on, illuminating...
Racial prejudice runs deep in the land of casteism
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat
The brutal killing of a Congolese national by the goons in Delhi brought shock waves among all the right thinking people...
Two Years of Modi Sarkar- Broken Promises: Sectarian Agenda
By Ram Puniyani,
The performance of the Modi Government during last two years has to be seen in the light of the promises made in...
This Ramzan, be a good husband: Say No to domestic abuse
By Asma -Nama
I know, it must sound odd to you.
A woman giving a piece of advice to men?
What’s more, asking them to...
#TCN10: Looking back at TwoCircles.net
By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net
“Are there enough news stories on Indian Muslims to do a daily news portal?” This was one of the first question that...
What explains the Muslim debacle in Assam elections?
By Kaleem Kawaja for Twocircles.net
Assam has the second-highest percent (34) of Muslim population in India. Forty nine of its 126 Assembly constituencies...
A Tale of Two Vehicles – Sadhvi’s Motorcycle and Rubina’s Car
By Ram Puniyani,
Can there be two type of Justice delivery system in the same country? This question came to one’s mind with the...
For Tawang, the incidents of May 2 will remain a scar forever
In the second of the three-part series, we look at how the Police completely botched up in handling the protests of May 2 and...
नीतिश राज में मुसहरों को बिल्डरों का खौफ़
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
पटना:बिहार की राजधानी में मुसहर जाति के लोग इन दिनों भारी संकट में हैं. मुसहरों की जमीन पर एक बिल्डर की...
Why Tawang is protesting against Mega Dams
In the first of the three-part series, we look at why the citizens of Tawang, backed by a number of Lamas from the...
It takes a village: Where religious harmony defies years of Kashmir strife
By Aadil Mir
Manzgam (Jammu and Kashmir) : A Hindu temple and a Muslim shrine in this lush green village of south Kashmir have stood...
No fees for girls upto higher secondary level in state schools, says J&K government
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
Srinagar: In a significant move which will benefit thousands of girls studying in state run schools in Jammu and Kashmir,...
पातालकोट : जहां ज़मीन के अन्दर से पनपता है भारत का भविष्य
जावेद अनीस
छिंदवाड़ा जिले के तामिया ब्लॉक में स्थित पातालकोट मानो धरती के गर्भ में समाया है. तकरीबन 89 वर्ग किलोमीटर क्षेत्र में फैली यह...
ख़ामोशी और ‘बदलाव’ के बीच भाजपा के दो साल…
फहमिना हुसैन, TwoCirclers.net
भाजपा सरकार अपनी ही बनायी नीतियों में उलझती जा रही है, वहीं कांग्रेस अपनी स्थापना और देश की स्वतंत्रता के बाद सबसे...
Children play pivotal role in making Chhattisgarh villages open-defecation free
By Ashish Mishra
Raipur : Arti Rawte, an 11-year-old tribal girl from Dhobni village of Maoist-hit Rajanandgaon district in Chhattisgarh, used to wake up at...
Rana Ayyub’s act of resistance
By Arif Hussain for TwoCircles.net
Contexts have this amazing ability of turning simple everyday acts into acts of resistance. From Mohandas Gandhi at Dandi...
Unless India delivers, world won’t be leprosy free
By Charu Bahri
For three years, Uttar Pradesh farmhand Pradeep Kumar, 24, has been treated for a disease that India largely eliminated 11 years ago:...
दिल्ली: बस्तियों में बदतर ज़िन्दगी
फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
दिल्ली: इस शहर में जहां एक तरफ़ मेट्रो की रफ़्तार से भी तेज़ ज़िन्दगी भागती है, जहां बड़े-बड़े आलीशान मकान और कोठियां...
Triple Talaq un-Islamic, inhuman and unconstitutional: Armed Forces Tribunal bench
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
Lucknow (UP): In a significant decision, the Lucknow Bench of Armed Forces Tribunal has ruled that the declaration of oral...
Muslim Women’s rights and media coverage of Triple Talaq
Despite the large number of positive court judgements in favour of Muslim women in India, the media prefers to endorse the view that once...
In Goalpara, a tribal theatre troupe connects people with the nature thanks to Sukracharya...
By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net
Goalpara: The idea of theatre has different connotations and meaning for different people. In its most basic form, it...
भूख से लड़ते भारत के बच्चे
फहमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
भारत में कुपोषण की शुरुआत मां के गर्भ से ही हो जाती है. गर्भवती महिलाओं को जीवन भर पौष्टिक भोजन का अभाव...
Philanthropy is not charity but a strategic investment in the future: Frank Islam
Foundation stone of Frank & Debbie Islam Management Complex was laid at AMU in February 2016
By TwoCircles.net news
Boston: Entrepreneur Frank Islam was honored with...
The shallowness of the discourse on Muslim Personal Law
By Umair Azmi
The liberal silence has, thankfully, been broken. If equality between the genders is impossible within the realm of Muslim law, irrespective of...
Writers’ Buildings renovation yet to start even after three years
By Sahana Ghosh
Kolkata : As the glossy facade of Nabanna - the temporary seat of the West Bengal government in neighbouring Howrah - prepares...
No ‘acche din’ in Kashmir as yet
By Sarwar Kashani and Ruwa Shah
Srinagar : Months after taking over as the prime minister two years ago, Narendra Modi, sporting a woollen cape-like...
79% Women’s report harassment and abuse, trend more prevalent in Northern India, reveals a...
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: A recent research by UK-based advocacy group ActionAid has once again highlighted the grim situation of women's...
मौजूदा नतीजों से खुलता उत्तर प्रदेश विधानसभा चुनाव का रास्ता
सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net
चार राज्यों और एक केन्द्रशासित प्रदेश में चुनाव के नतीजे सामने आ चुके हैं. असम में भाजपा ने जीत दर्ज की है....
Surge in female contestants, not MLAs
By Saumya Tewari
Female contestants increased across the four states that went to polls recently - but not legislators - and three times as many...
बसपा का मिशन 2017
फहमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
लखनऊ: उतर प्रदेश में अगले साल होने वाले विधानसभा चुनाव की तैयारियां अभी से पार्टियों ने शुरू कर दी है. एकतरफ जहां...
Modi Government’s development plans systematically erasing Tribal identity
By Rajaraman Sundaresan for TwoCircles.net,
Democracy in many ways is a collection of plural spaces which involves civil rights groups, protest movements,...
Mission Mukhyamantri: BJP has task cut out in UP
By Mohit Dubey
Lucknow: The question is ringing loud and clear. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has Sarbananda Sonowal in Assam. But what...
Verdict 2016: How did the Urdu Dailies report Assembly poll results?
By Mahtab Alam for Twocircles.net
While there is a lot of discussion happening around on how ‘Muslim voters’ polled in the recently concluded assembly elections...
120 Muslim lawmakers elected in five state Assemblies in India: Can’t elected Muslims exhibit...
Over 120 Muslims have been elected as MLAs in the recent Assembly elections.
The five states that went to polls included Assam, West Bengal, Kerala,...
With Assam in bag, time to move forward with reforms
By Amulya Ganguli
Assam has given Narendra Modi a breather. It is now up to him to make full use of the time he has...
Death on India’s roads — same as 2 daily plane crashes
By Kamala Thiagarajan
About 350 people die every day on India’s roads - more than any other country - with those under 18 and two-wheeler...
Maheboob Syed: A life dedicated to caring for birds and animals
By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net
Latur: Having a pet at home is a normal habit, but what if a person and his entire family is...
Two years ago, Sadhvi was principle conspirator for NIA. What changed now?
By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net,
Five years after Ministry of Home Affairs asked National Investigation Agency (NIA) to investigate Malegaon 2008 blasts, NIA on May 13,...
Poll-humbled Congress, resurgent regional parties could help BJP in RS
By Nirendra Dev,
New Delhi: As the poll verdict from four states saw the Congress decimated in two states and regional parties reasserting themselves in...
Assam hoping BJP will live up to promises
By Aditya Baruah ,
Guwahati: With the BJP making it to Dispur, people in Assam will now be watching the change that the saffron party...
Kedarnath to Kanhaiya: Sedition law a tool to muffle the voice of dissent
By Azim Hussain Mazumder,
The arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar on sedition charges following the so called ‘Anti-national’ incident at Jawaharlal Nehru University sparked the debate...
Malegaon 2008 Blasts: HC and SC accepted MCOCA then why did NIA drop it?
By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net,
National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday dropped sections of Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act, 1999 (MCOCA) against 10 accused...
Erasing tolerance? HAF’s changes can only be described as ahistorical edits to history books
The HAF and its allies may have PR machinery and hundreds of thousands of dollars in their war chest to selectively change textbooks, but...
Kerala, Somalia and the myth of Semitic bounty
By Umar Nizar for TwoCircles.net,
Before Narendra Modi, two others mistook Malayalees for Somalis. They were marines guarding an Italian vessel, Enrica Lexie- Maximilliano Latorre...
स्कूलों से महरूम दलित-मुसलमान बच्चे
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
दिल्ली: देश में ‘शिक्षा का अधिकार’ कानून 2010 से लागू है, जिसके तहत 6 से 14 वर्ष के बच्चों के लिए...
From Ayodhya to AMU
By Aqib Shah for TwoCircles.net,
The crackdown on Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) is a part of Vice Chancellor’s attempt to take forward ideology...
दिल्ली: गुमनाम मदरसे, ‘अनपढ़’ बच्चे
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
दिल्ली: लगता है कि सरकार और सर्वे एजेंसियों के लिए मुस्लिम तबकों के बच्चों की पढ़ाई का कोई महत्त्व नहीं है....
The problem of Rape: Why India is still failing?
By Aabid Ali Haider for TwoCircles.net,
The brutal and harrowing rapes in Kerala have revealed that women in India are unsafe when it comes to...
Unlike Sadhvi NIA’s clean chit to Muslims in 2006 case was not before brain...
By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net,
National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday gave clean chit to six Hindu accused in Malegaon 2008 blasts case saying prosecution is...
Women as a vote bank: Not a win-win for politicos
By Amulya Ganguli
Women are now being courted by some politicians who sense that their appeal to Dalits, backward castes and Muslims is dwindling in...
सत्ता-माफिया के तंत्र के निशाने पर पत्रकार
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
पत्रकारिता के मौजूदा परिवेश को लेकर यूपी, छत्तीसगढ़, हरियाणा के बाद अब झारखंड और बिहार से सामने आई तस्वीर जितनी दर्दनाक...
NIA gives clean chit to Sadhvi and others without conducting custodial interrogation
By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net,
Mumbai: In a controversial development, India's elite National Investigation Agency (NIA) today gave clean chit to 6 accused, including Sadhvi Pragya...
Bindi Yadav: From ‘bicycle thief’ to super-rich businessman
By Imran Khan
Patna : He's super rich, he's got the right political connections in Bihar and he's dangerous. Meet Bindeshwari Prasad Yadav alias Bindi,...
When a Guwahati auto driver’s exemplary honesty stunned his passenger
By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net,
Guwahati: Nazrul Islam, a man in his late 40s is just another auto-rickshaw driver in Guwahati. But this bearded gentleman...
A few questions for Anurag Sharma, DGP of Telengana
By Ubaid ur Rahman for Twocircles.net
Last December, Intelligence Bureau organised an All-India conference of Directors General of Police which was attended by...
Education not diminishing India’s preference for boys
By Tanay Sukumar
Young graduate mothers gave birth to 899 girls per 1,000 boys, lower than the national average of 943, according to an IndiaSpend...
जेएनयू विवाद: भूख हड़ताल से आगे का रास्ता
फहमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
दिल्ली: जवाहरलाल नेहरू में चल रहा विवाद अब पूरे नए फलक पर आ चुका है. राष्ट्रद्रोह और देशविरोधी कार्यक्रमों के मामले में...
“हाईस्कूल में सवर्ण मुझे मारते-पीटते थे” – बिहार आयोग के चेयरमैन हुलेश मांझी
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
पटना: बिहार राज्य महादलित आयोग के चेयरमैन डॉ. हुलेश मांझी ने हाल में ही बेहद हैरान करने वाला बयान दिया है....
5 percent of Indian marriages inter-caste; in Mizoram, 55 percent
By Prachi Salve & Saumya Tewari
Christian-dominated Mizoram - 87 percent of the population is Christian - has the most inter-caste marriages in India, a...
No ban on Hijab, only need to remove it during security check, says CISF
By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net
Delhi: The Central Industrial Security Force has made it clear that there is no ban on wearing a face mask, Burqa...
उर्दू पत्रकारिता का सच बयान करता एक लेखक
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
दिल्ली: इन दिनों देश की राजधानी में उर्दू खूब फल-फूल रही है. दिल्ली में अब उर्दू अख़बारों की संख्या सैकड़ों में...
TwoCircles.net to celebrate its 10 year anniversary with community awards
By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net
TwoCircles.net, the news website of the marginalized has achieved a major milestone this month by completing ten years of continuous operation. TCN...
ख़त्म होती मौलाना मज़हरूल हक़ की विरासत
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
पटना:मौलाना मज़हरूल हक़ की निशानियां अब मिटने की कगार पर हैं. हक़ साहब बिहार का गौरव थे लेकिन समय ने...
Death Penalty India Report is a severe indictment of the Judiciary System
By Aqeel Ahmad for Twocircles.net
Since the mere mention of death penalty leads to a heated debate, it must be stated at the...
The connection between self-immolation & domestic violence
By Tanay Sukumar
Indian men are twice as likely as women to kill themselves, but of all the methods of suicide, self-immolation is the only...
S Chandra Mohan: The poet of an enlightened Ambedkarite era
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat for Twocircles.net
S. Chandra Mohan’s poetry reflects the brilliance of his thought process and the rebel inside him. The sheer diversity...
Hakim Ajmal Khans last resting place: in a forgotten corner of Delhi
By Rana Safvi
Hakim Ajmal Khan a philanthropist, freedom fighter, famous hakeem and nationalist is a well known personality.
So I was very surprised when I...
Bengal polls a tale of development vs graft
By Anurag Dey & Sirshendu Panth
Kolkata : The two-month-long bitter, no-holds-barred campaign for the West Bengal assembly elections turned into a slugfest between development...
Umar, My Namesake
By Umar, a JNU student,
My name is Umar too. Umar, as in Umar Khalid. That is perhaps all that we share, and also our...
‘तेजस्वी यादव में सीएम बनने की क़ाबलियत’ : वित्तमंत्री अब्दुल बारी सिद्दिक़ी
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
पटना: बिहार के वित्तमंत्री अब्दुल बारी सिद्दीक़ी ने एक ख़ास बातचीत में लालूप्रसाद यादव के बेटे तेजस्वी यादव को...
Bombay HC judgment on beef ban is a ‘win-win’ for state and beef eaters
By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net,
Friday’s Bombay High Court decision in regards with the ban on slaughter of bulls/bullocks in Maharashtra is neither completely against the...
Will Priyanka be the Congress face in UP?
By Amulya Ganguli
Uttar Pradesh is up for grabs in next year's assembly elections.
With anti-incumbency stalking the Akhilesh Yadav government, Narendra Modi losing his earlier...
Women run 14 percent Of Indian businesses, most self-financed
By Devanik Saha
Richa Dubey’s profession - running an online retail business that connects artisans with consumers - may not appear unusual for a modern...
Why India’s construction slowdown threatens to increase poverty
Abhirup Bhunia
The construction sector in India, which employed more than 44 million people at the end of 2010 (the last date for which official...
True to their roots: US-based Indian doctor couple come to India every year to...
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...
Growing Intolerance in a Tolerant Society
Ram Puniyani
Towards the end of 2015 many a writers and accomplished eminent citizens returned their national honors; protesting against the growing atmosphere of...
NCDHR expresses alarm at NITI Aayog’s claims of not being able to monitor Schedule...
By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter
New Delhi: The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights has expressed disappointment at a recent news item which...
106-year-old resident gets to vote for the first time, wants electricity in his village
By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net
Kolkata/Coochbehar: The recent elections in West Bengal has seen thousands of youth vote for the first time, but for one person...
Lack of development of AMU Malappuram may hurt chances of IUML’s Manjalamkuzhy Ali
By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net
Kozhikode: The AMU Malappuram centre was established in 2010, but even after six years, it is no secret that the off-campus...
Brandeis University’s conference on Caste discussed contemporary issues
By Anusha Chaitanya for TwoCircles.net
The three-day conference on Caste, Inequality and Economic Growth in South-Asia: Challenges of Tradition and Modernity was organized at Brandeis...
How to explain these unsystematic investigation?
By Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam for TwoCircles.net,
Recently there was a talk about how people have been killed in fake encounters. The police have claimed...
एक बड़े सामाजिक प्रश्न के जवाब में ‘निल बट्टे सन्नाटा’
जावेद अनीस
विदेशों में सभी परिवार घरेलू सहायक अफोर्ड नहीं कर पाते हैं क्योंकि उनकी पगार बहुत ज्यादा होती है, लेकिन भारत में कामवाली...
ख़ामोशी से घरों में घुसता क्रूर रंगभेद
फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
देश में गर्मी बढ़ने के साथ-साथ टेलीविज़न पर गोरापन बढ़ाने की क्रीमों के विज्ञापन भी बढ़ गए हैं. देश में रंग एक...
What ails the formation of Muslim Think Tanks in India?
By Sheikh Khurshid Alam for Twocircles.net
Muslims have a rich history of think tanks or policy institutes. One of the finest examples of this history...
Two Years of Narasingbari Killings: Heart-wrenching story of little Rashida
Abdul Kalam Azad
Today is the second anniversary of Narasingbari Killings. On 1st May, 2014, at around 8:00pm three people were killed and several injured....
सत्याग्रह शताब्दी वर्ष : भाजपा ने भुलाया गांधी को
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
बेतिया (बिहार) : राष्ट्रपिता महात्मा गांधी के सत्याग्रह का तपोस्थल चम्पारण अपने गौरवमयी इतिहास के 100 साल पूरा कर रहा है....
मेहसी: सरकार की मार झेलता ‘बिहार का मोती’
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
मेहसी (बिहार) : एक ज़माने में ‘बिहार का मोती’ कहा जाने वाला मेहसी अब बस एक नाम बनकर रह गया...
Awaiting their leader, Patels to begin ‘lollipop’ protest on Sunday
By Darshan Desai
Ahmedabad : Not impressed by the Gujarat government announcing 10
percent reservation for economically weaker sections among the upper castes, including Patels, the...
Retired IPS officer files petition against appointment of cop accused in Ishrat Jahan Fake...
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
Gujarat: Julio Ribeiro, former Mumbai Police Commissioner has filed a petition in Gujarat High Court against IPS officer, PP Pandey’s...
AMU suspends 12 students for alleged involvement in April 23 violence
By TCN News
Aligarh: The Aligarh Muslim University, in a press release, said it had suspended twelve students for their alleged involvement...
दूसरों के न्याय के लिए लड़ते इज़हार हुसैन
फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
डेहरी ऑन सोन(बिहार): ऐसे कई नाम हैं जो इंसाफ़ की लड़ाई को अपनी ज़िन्दगी का मक़सद बना लेते हैं. फिर पूरी...
प्रशासन के फैसले के खिलाफ़ अनिश्चितकालीन भूख हड़ताल पर बैठे जेएनयू के छात्र
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
नई दिल्ली: जवाहरलाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय में पैदा हुआ शोर अभी निकट भविष्य में शांत होता हुआ नहीं दिख रहा है. जेएनयू...
Efforts of IMRC make drinkable water accessible to drought-affected rural areas in India
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
As a debilitating drought enters its thrird successive year in Marathwada region of Maharashtra, Mohammad Yousuf, 45 a farmer from...
Why the opinion piece in Indian Express on Fatwas must be critiqued
By Umair Azmi for Twocircles.net
An opinion piece in the Indian Expresspublished on April 22 asks Indian Muslims to flout the fatwa of...
Ajmal seeks Rs 1,000 crore relief package for Assam floods
By TCN News
Member of Parliament and AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal raised the issue of floods in Assam during the Zero Hour of the...
Govt’s Land Grab?
By Ramesh Menon
Nearly seven decades after the Partition and five decades since the 1965 war with Pakistan, the NDA government is brusquely trying to...
Swachh Bharat urban toilet plan 76 percent behind schedule
By Prachi Salve
Of a target of 2.5 million household toilets in urban areas by March 2016, 24 percent (0.6 million) have been constructed.
Of a...
Looking beyond Women’s Day and Capitalism-inspired Feminism
By Ashley Tellis for Twocircles.net
Now that Women’s Day has gone, women will be forgotten once again for the rest of the year....
Malegaon ruling: First impressions
By Mubasshir Mushtaq for TwoCircles.net
I just finished reading the 33 page ruling on Malegaon 2006. First impressions:
1. ATS shamelessly tried to build a fictitious...
Has the Trinamool Congress become a lost ship?
By Amitava Mukherjee
There is now a distinct possibility that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) may be engulfed by an internecine struggle as Mamata Banerjee, the...
Continuous rains in April leave residents of West Jaintia Hills flummoxed and counting losses
By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net
Shnonpdeng: When a resident of Shnonpdeng, West Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya, looks at rain and says, “This is unprecedented,” you have to...
Lucknow’s oblivious Urdu shayar?
By Vikas Datta
Poets can be divided into two broad categories - those who are sometime, somewhere influenced by the world outside and 'prosaic' concerns...
“मैं हर चीज़ पर नहीं बोल सकता” – कन्हैया कुमार से ख़ास बातचीत
सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net
नई दिल्ली: कन्हैया कुमार से यह बातचीत कुछ दिनों पहले जेएनयू में हुई. अनिर्बन भट्टाचार्य और उमर ख़ालिद से हुई बातचीत आप...
Excellent relations with Bangladesh demand tolerant societies
By Saeed Naqvi
We have grown accustomed to receiving greeting cards at the end of the year.
That is why BJP stalwart Murli Manohar Joshi’s beautifully...
Good monsoon can shower ‘achhe din’ on Indian economy: Experts
By Bappadiya Chatterjee and V. Jagannathan
Kolkata/Chennai : Higher crop output will be just one of the many gains from a good monsoon season, as...
Faith and fire light up Kashmir hillock on Sufi saint’s Urs
By Sheikh Qayoom
Aishmuqam (Anantnag) : It is a rare spectacle of faith and fire that lit the hillock leading to the shrine of 15th...
देश में सूखा: मरते इंसान, बेबस सरकार
मोहम्मद आसिफ़ इक़बाल
मराठवाड़ा के बीड़ इलाके के साबलखेड़ गांव में रविवार को एक बच्ची की पानी भरने के दौरान मौत हो गई. रविवार होने...
In the lanes of Batla House, a mission to empower women
By Sadia Suhail for Twocircles.net
New Delhi: The narrow, dingy lanes of Batla House in Delhi may not look the most appealing for...
Celebrating Hazrat Ali in Bangalore
By Nigar Ataulla for TwoCircles.net
I was overwhelmed to be invited to a program held on the 21st of April amidst special guests from...
Here is the evidence against Purohit in Samjhauta blasts
By Special Correspondent, TwoCircles.net,
Even at a time when the strong evidence exists and the custodial interrogation of Col. Shrikant Purohit is pending, National Investigation...
Primed for change, but only 3.2 percent Assamese have Aadhaar card
By Chaitanya Mallapur
A 65-year-old citizenship issue, reflecting the strains of migration, has resulted in no more than 3.2 percent of Assam's population being enrolled...
Man-made Drought in Maharashtra
By Dr. Parvez Mandviwala for TwoCircles.net,
Drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply-...
In Meghalaya, end of mining activity has workers facing an uncertain future
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...
To Heaven and Back
By Shalim M Hussain
As campaigning for the 2016 Assam assembly polls was gaining steam in the warm and wet spring, Sunny and his friends...
Bengal polls throw up a leadership crisis
By Amitava Mukherjee
Never before in the political history of West Bengal has there been such an acute leadership crisis cutting across political spectrums as...
States must be brought on board for visionary e-NAM initiative
By Amit Kapoor
Agriculture is a critical sector of the Indian economy. This is because, in spite of its relatively low and declining contribution to...
India now more confident in dealing economically with other nations: Jaitley
By Arul Louis
New York : India's confidence level in dealing with other countries economically has risen and it is now in a position to...
Kohinoor gifted to Britain, government tells SC
New Delhi: The government on Monday told the Supreme Court that the East India Company did not take away the Kohinoor diamond but it...
Do Educational Institutions need lectures on Patriotism?
By Ram Puniyani
The issues related to our educational institutions-patriotism started coming up to the fore with this Government coming to power (May 2014). One...
Senior Ghanaian official pays glowing tributes to Ambedkar
By Francis Kokutse
Accra : The president of the Ghana Technology University College (GTUC) here has paid glowing tributes to the memory of B.R. Ambedkar...
All eyes on Election Commision as Mamata’s blue-eyed boy runs riot
By Anurag Dey
Kolkata : He is no magician, but assures the opposition would vanish on polling day. He has no qualms about asking his...
An open letter to Editors of NDTV: Assamese-speaking people are not the only rightful...
By Mustafa Barbhuiya for Twocircles.net
Dear Editors of NDTV,
I express my deep concerns regarding the kind of generalised comments and commentary on Assam population...
नोखा: जानिए एशिया की सबसे बड़ी मोठ मंडी को
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
नोखा (राजस्थान): दलित छात्रा डेल्टा मेघवाल की मौत ने राजस्थान के बीकानेर जिले के नोखा शहर को चर्चा में ला दिया...