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Assam government offers financial assistance to private madarsas

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By Dr. Syed Ahmed for TwoCircles.net,

Conflict to peace via women: Helping distressed women in J&K

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Peace and conflict in Kashmir are linked to patriarchal interventions in Kashmir. “The women don’t have a slightest idea about it. They feel it...

Azadi ki or Chalo: The future of India’s farmers’ protest

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One battle appears won but the war for India’s soul rages on. Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net When the Kisan Morcha — the Farmers Protest — was...

Kishanganj dharna for AMU centre: Media mislead the nation

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By Mohammad Mudassir Alam,

AMU Malapuram centre receives Rs 22.5 crore; to build proposed academic block

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By TCN Staff Reporter The Malappuram centre of the Aligarh Muslim University welcomed the new year on a positive note, receiving a funding of Rs...

COVID-19 pandemic will not end until December 2021

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By Shamsuzzaman Ansari, TwoCircles.net  The question, when will the coronavirus go away is on everyone’s mind. Healthcare experts and analysts can only attempt to estimate...

A conspiracy to halt progress of Azamgarh Muslims: ex-SIMI chief

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By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, Dr Shahid Badr Falahi, an Azamgarh native and former president of banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), runs his two Unani medical clinics in Azamgarh. One of his clinic is in a village that is over 90% Hindus. Hindus have no problem coming to him for their medical needs.

New trend in jewellery industry attracting Muslim consumers

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By Ziaulla Nomani, India is the world's second largest single consumer of gold after China. The consumption of gold in India is about 50% in jewelry, 40% in investments, and 10% in industry.

गाय से डरना मना है, यह हमारी भी अपनी है…

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तरन्नुम सिद्दीक़ी आज कल कोई भी न्यूज़ पेपर हो या कोई न्यूज़ चैनल… ऐसा लगता है कि जैसे हर तरफ़ एक अजीब सा खौफ़ का...

Two Lok Sabha by-polls changed the political scenario of the country in the past....

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By Mohammed Faisal, TwoCircles.net The first by-poll was in 1978. At that time, Indira Gandhi was ousted due to the imposition of emergency. India’s political...

Reservation for Dalit Muslims

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How can the Congress shed its ‘Muslim party’ image?

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By Amulya Ganguli for IANS: Ever since the A.K. Antony committee identified the Congress's Muslim "appeasement" tag as a major reason for its electoral reverses,...

किस तरह भुलाएं हम: आज़मगढ

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Kashmiri youth hit the street over ‘Composite Township for Kashmiri Pandits’ proposal

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Quill Foundation offers Scholarships to under privileged for doing law

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: Quill Foundation, a research and advocacy group has decided to provide scholarships for young members from the society who...

Ten US doctors to volunteer for IMRC’s health initiative to treat the needy

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By TCN News The seventh annual India Health Initiative by US-based India Muslim Relief and Charities IMRC to provide medical services to economically...

Yusuf Mukati: Empowering the poor through a multi-utility resource centre

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net Aurangabad (Maharashtra): “Thodi si neki karle pyare …Allah ne mauka diya hai” (Do some good work dear …Almighty has given you...

Tiding Over Controversies: AMU Fraternity must rise upto the Occasion

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By Syed Tahseen Raza 17th October is the birth anniversary of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, founder of MAO College, which later became the Aligarh Muslim University. The...

Kerala madrasas: Charting a different course

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United in Death: Charu Majumdar and Kishanji

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Rebuilding of Akbarabadi Mosque on wrong premises

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Visually challenged twin brothers, role models for everyone

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No Country for Women: Love and rights in troubled times

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Muslims must think beyond defeating BJP

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By Mukhtar Ahmad Whenever any community , sect, group  or section gives a call for unity , it always implies unite against a common enemy....

Saffron calling in West Bengal…

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By Shiveshwar Kundu Bengal's society can't function without ideology. The upsurge of Hindutva in the eastern state can be seen through the aspect of an...

Languages, libraries and legacy of hatred

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net, Last Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi handed a beautiful and thoughtful gift to the President of Mongolia Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj. It was a copy of the earliest illustrated Persian work on the history of Mongol tribes. The book called ‘Jame at-Tawarikh’ (Collection of Histories) was authored by Rashiduddin Fazlullah Hamdani [1247-1318CE], who was the Vazir of Mongol king Mahmud Ghazan Khan [Reign 1295-1304].

शाह आलम : साइकिल से ढूंढी चम्बल में आज़ादी की कहानी

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net बस्ती/दिल्ली: एक शख़्स बीहड़ में आज़ादी के निशान तलाशने निकला था. सफ़र साइकिल से पूरा किया जाना था और वह पूरा...

Tinkering with school syllabus a bad move, doesn’t bode well for democracy

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By Asad Mirza, TwoCircles.net In a completely uncalled for move, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has revised its syllabus for students of Classes...

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Sarwar Shafique Hannan : Tale of struggle, success and honor

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On sighting the Eid moon

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Ambedkarite youths ensure peaceful protests in Mumbai, offer legal help to those arrested

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By Daisy Katta, TwoCircles.net Mumbai, which has been the epicentre of the Ambedkarite Movement in Maharashtra, saw a huge participation by students in the protests...

Finding India in a Sufi Dargah

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net

Demand grows for reservation for West Bengal Muslims

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By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net, Justice Sachar Committee report has disclosed the worst condition of Muslims in West Bengal where Left Front has bee in power since last three decades. This eye-opening report provided reasons for Muslims who constitute 25% of the total state population to rethink about continuing their supports to the Left Front.

Inside MP prisons, a life of hell awaits Muslim prisoners

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Irresponsible and sensational media coverage glooms over Hyderabad twin bomb blasts

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By Mohd. Ismail Khan & M. Reyaz, TwoCircles.net,

NCHRO’s Mukundan C Menon Award 2015 given to Ram Puniyani

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By TCN News, Mumbai: The renowned writer, commentator and human rights activist Ram Puniyani was awarded by National Confederation of Human Rights Organizations’ (NCHRO) Mukundan...

India will overcome coronavirus, will it overcome the communal virus?

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It needs to be said that Indian Muslims do not need to prove their loyalty to India. Despite the humiliations, vilification and hate campaigns,...

The Tablighi Jamaat in Mewat – Part 6

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A controversy might flare up over Indian citizenship in Assam

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By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net, In the North-Eastern state of Assam, a controversy over the issue of Indian citizenship is in making. This has to do with the updating work of National Register of Citizens (NRC) 1951, at present going on in the state.

मुसलमानों की तरह दलितों को भी किया जा सकता है बदनाम, ऐसे मनाएं अंबेडकर...

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Arbitrary and illegal arrest of ‘Nishan’ Editor Lenin Roy

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By Dr Nutan Thakur, Lenin Kumar Roy, the editor of Nishan, a Left oriented quarterly magazine published from Bhuvaneshwar (Orissa state in India) was arrested on 7 December 2008 around 1-1.30 pm and sent to jail on charges of writing provocative literature which as per the police version and the official report would disturb communal peace and harmony. The police did not stop here.

Do ‘liberal icons’ encourage identity politics among Muslims?

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By Dr Kouser Fathima for TwoCircles.net The ‘liberal icons’ are again preaching Muslims, especially women, about what is an acceptable form of dressing. This has...

Indian Muslims against ISIS: After fatwas against terror, Muslims take to streets, launch major...

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By IndScribe, First, there were fatwas against terrorism and ISIS. Now, Indian Muslims have taken to the streets, to raise their voice against the outfit. The...

Advocacy group set up in Kashmir to educate people about Islamic Banking

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Srinagar: Mehboob Makhdoomi, an expert on Islamic Banking and alumnus of Harvard and Pennsylvania University, has...

Achyuta Samanta and the role of KISS in empowering Odisha’s tribals

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By Rajaraman Sundaresan for TwoCircles.net Between democracy and development as an idea, one feels that democracy in many ways has taken a back seat....

Socrates, demonetisation and UP elections: A ‘walk’ with the philosopher in the streets of...

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By Rashmi Bhushan for Twocircles.net I looked at the weather and murmured, “There are ominous dark clouds gathering overhead”. A voice from behind asked– “Are...

Unseen and Unheard: The Battle for Shelter and Healthcare in India’s Homeless Population

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Sanjana Chawla, TwoCircles.net India, home to approximately 142 crore people, is bustling with activity and teeming with its populace. Yet, beneath the surface of this...

Forbesganj: History of the bloody road

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Rohingyas urge India to create conditions conducive for their return

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By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, Oct 22 (IANS) Rohingya refugees living here have appealed to the Indian government to mount pressure on Myanmar to create conditions...

Book Review: Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski

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By Shaik Zakeer Hussain, TwoCircles.net, There is a customary semblance in all dictators: they are authoritarian, they command total submission, their rule is tyrannical and they have little, or worse, no concern for the miserable conditions of their people. The population is starving, there is rampant unemployment, corruption at all levels of government. There is drudgery, there is pain, there is humiliation, there is everything in society, that makes a man lose his sanity.

Hurdles slow down AMU Kishanganj construction

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By Muhammad Mudassir Alam, After a long wait of around five years, the construction work of Aligarh Muslim University’s (AMU) Kishanganj Centre has started a couple of weeks ago. The construction work of boundary wall of AMU’s Special Centre at Chakla village is currently in progress but alleged hurdles waged by local suppliers of construction materials such as sand, bricks, concrete etc. somehow have affected the pace of the work.

Pathetic Plight of Muslims in electoral politics of Madhya Pradesh

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By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net, Muslims have not, in comparison to their demographic strength, been adequately represented in Parliament or most of the state assemblies. Madhya Pradesh state is no exception to this phenomena.

‘Violent reaction has no place in Islam’: Dr. Fazlur Rehman Madni

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By Aleem Faizee, Ummid.com Widely acclaimed Mufti and renowned Scholar, Dr. Fazlur Rehman Madni is an authentic voice of over 20 million Ahl-e-Hadees Muslims who live in India. An important member of Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadees Hind, Dr. Fazlur Rehman Madni achieved the doctorate in Islamic studies from Jamia Islamiah Madinah Munawwera in Saudi Arabia before joining Jamia Mohmmadia Mansoora in Malegaon as Shaikh-ul-Jamia.

The silence of the Gujarati Muslims

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While Muslims from Azamgarh demonstrated in New Delhi against random arrest of Muslims in the name of terrorism, Gujarat Muslims avoid any democratic agitation against indiscriminate arrest. While some say it is `fear psychosis' others hold community's 'mercantile culture' responsible for it. By TwoCircles.net special correspondent,

Why all AMU troubles are sine die?

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By Md. Sajjad, Aligarh Muslim University is once again closed sine die. Students arose in protest on October 26th, 2009 following the killing of a student outside the campus the night before. As about almost every previous agitation/forced closure, the latest campus closure that begain on October 31st is also sine die. If assured of anonymity, significantly large number of the insiders would share the ‘secret’ that the student agitation in AMU is basically an outcome of the fierce rivalry between the ‘warring’ groups of teachers.

Lives and longings at India-Bangladesh borderland

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By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,

Multiple Hajj and Umrahs are not a priority in Islam

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Asaduddin Owaisi receives ISIS threats on Twitter; tags ISIS as ‘Takfiri’

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By TwoCircles.net, Staff Reporter Hyderabad: Asaduddin Owaisi, the President of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen and the MP from Hyderabad constituency received threats on...

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Why this is a good time to talk about the Caste Census

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By Tanoj Meshram for TwoCircles.net The Maharashtra assembly on the initiative of its speaker Mr. Nana Patole - who is also an important OBC leader...

Is PAGD in Kashmir a Plebiscite Front 2.0 in making?

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Nangalbhanga camp of Chirang district faces soil erosion, food crisis

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Discrimination-free schools, Muslims and RTE act

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BJP plays the caste card knowing it won’t get the Muslim vote

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UP close UP: Meerut

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Superiority of faith, an impediment in solidarity

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By Md. Aariz Imam The response world over to Christchurch terror attack has been historic. For the first time since the start of America's war on...

Clearing dust off Aurangzeb’s image

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By Prof. M.H. Jawahirullah

(In this piece, Prof. M.H. Jawahirullah, President of Tamilnadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK), counters claims by artist Francois Gautier about his exhibition on Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb held at Chennai.)

To begin with: Tamilnadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK) strongly condemns Francois Gautier for his lies, innuendos and calumnies regarding his exhibition held at Chennai.

Muslim MPs: Less education, more children

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By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

Rise of religious fundamentalism the biggest issue for India, Bangladesh: Professor Anisuzzaman

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Professor Anisuzzaman, president of Bangla Aceademy, Bangladesh's national language authority, was in Guwahati recently. He had been invited by the Char Chapori Sahitya Parishad...

Dialogue – The best way to resolve the Kashmir Issue

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Living as a subaltern in India amid Corona pandemic

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By Chand Mahal Ruby and Ruhail Andrabi  On 25th March the prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, announced a 21 days countrywide lockdown, millions of...

Of dreams and hope: Remembering Shaheen Bagh

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By Sharjeel Usmani, TwoCircles.net Last year, around this time, Amir Aziz recited his poem that soon became an anthem for the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protesters...

Babri Masjid: No more an issue for English print media?

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Or, to raise a more pertinent question, is the BJP-led government at the Centre a reason why the anniversary-related coverage was so meek? By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, I have always considered The Indian Express bolder than most in the country, not afraid to take stands on most issues, whether I agree with those views of not.

Does technology spoil or enrich the Hajj experience?

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By Hassan Hoque for TwoCircles.net Live feeds, Snapchats and iPhone apps bring the Hajj closer to us all and help us identify with collective events...

Have we forgotten Shibli Nomani ?

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A Rememberance on his 152nd birth anniversary: By Kaleem Kawaja, “Yeh maana tum ko talwaron ki tezi aazmani haiy, Humari gurdanon pur ho gaa is ka imtihaan kub tuk” ( We know you want to display your military might, But for how long will it be at our cost.) ………..Shibli Nomnai in “Shahar-e- Aaashob-e-Islam” (The ruined city of Islam” )

Telangana: A new Hindutva laboratory in the making

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By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,

Poet Ali Sardar Jafri revisted by Syed Muhammad Ashraf

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Syed Muhammed Ashraf talks about Mera Safar, a poem by Ali Sardar Jafri By Bushra Alvi, TwoCircles.net, Phir ek din aisaa aaega Aankhon ke diye bujh jaaenge

What ails the formation of Muslim Think Tanks in India?

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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...

Arrest of Munawar Faruqui: Can democracy take a joke?

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The people who are silent over the arrest of Munawar Faruqui should remember that ‘if you do not allow a joke in a democracy,...

NRIs can gift cars online, no extra charge for blessings!

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By Kul Bhushan

When an NRI buys his first new car on returning to India, he knows that he has made it.

A Ramadan evening in Sabzibagh, heart of Patna

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By Md. Ali , TwoCircles.net, Ramadan – a month of increased spiritual experience. An opportunity to connect with Allah and adapting your material desires to Allah's Will. Islam being a religion of middle path does not let Muslims totally abandon the world that they live in. They are encouraged to pray with other community members and also work and reap the worldly rewards. Ramadan is also a month of increased economic activities.

‘Aaghaz’: Mission to ‘educate to advance’ for a better life

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Over the past more than 10 years, thousands of poor Muslim children have benefited from Aaghaz, many of whom have now got well-placed jobs and are now supporting the education of other poor Muslim children. It’s like completing a circle. By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net, On May 5, 2015 Mazhar Farooqui, a journalist working in Dubai, sent a simple, two-line message to a 70-member WhatsApp group called ‘Aaghaz Foundation’.

Politics of Sedition under the cloak of National Interest

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Syed Ghiasuddin Zafar-ul-Islam Khan, Chairman of Delhi Minority Commission became the centre of a controversy for his tweet dated 28th April 2020. The tweet thanked...

Appraising the Rohingya refugee situation in India and abroad

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By Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood The New York Declaration on Refugees & Migrants was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly on 19 Sept 2016....

Indian Muslims: A rich hunting ground for Middle Eastern rivals

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By James M. Dorsey When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently declared that Turkey was “the only country that can lead the Muslim world,” he probably...

Deoband: Stirrings of change in the bastion of tradition

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By Noor Mohammad for TwoCircles.net Last week I was in Deoband—my fourth trip to the town in the last five years—to attend the 30th convention of the Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e-Hind. Behind the image that the media projects, an image which the ulema of Deoband, too, carefully cultivate—of Deoband being the bastion of an unchanging tradition—the squalid Muslim locality that surrounds Deoband’s Dar ul-Ulum, possibly the world’s largest traditional madrasa, has changed much since I was last there two years ago.

बिन ईंधन का सिलेंडर, फ्लॉप साबित हो रही है मोदी की उज्ज्वला योजना

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जावेद अनीस, TwoCircles.net के लिए मध्य प्रदेश के शाजापुर ज़िले के कांजा गांव की निवासी मंजूबाई का प्रधानमंत्री उज्ज्वला योजना के तहत मिला गैस...

Unmarriageability: the unspoken stigma behind dishonour killings

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By A.B.Karl Marx Siddharthar Unmarriageability  noun 1.       (in India in the present) the practice of not marrying outside one’s caste 2.       refers to the caste-based endogamous practice 3.       a form of discrimination...

Political games around Charminar

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By Kaneez Fathima for TwoCircles.net,

उर्दू पत्रकारिता का सच बयान करता एक लेखक

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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...

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