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My Chosen Mission for Life after 90

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By Jamal Khwaja The ancient ethical Hindu doctrine of Four Stages of Human Life and their corresponding duties is well known. It appeals to me,...

जामिया में इंद्रेश की आमद हमारे अज़ीम रहनुमाओं के ख़्वाबों को कुंद करती है

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net जामिया मिल्लिया इस्लामिया भारतीय मुसलमानों के लिए सिर्फ़ एक इदारे का नाम नहीं है, बल्कि ये यूनिवर्सिटी जंग-ए-आज़ादी के सालार मौलाना...

Government’s bureaucratic recruitment from business houses clashes with India’s constitutional mandate

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By Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood for TwoCircles.net The central government’s Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) has advertised the lateral recruitment from the private sector...

Will the contradict the diver?

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By Mamoun Fandy, The visit of US President George Bush to the region and the realisation of the two-state solution are governed by four determinants of which anyone interested in the peace process should not loose sight. The first determinant is the time limit attached to President Bush's departure from the White House in eight months. Is this long enough for the US Administration to establish a Palestinian state? Will the remaining time be sufficient to establish a Palestinian state, even under international supervision in the manner of the independence of Kosovo?

Follow the Gandhian path to overcome intolerance

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By Anil K. Rajvanshi A whole book can be written on how Mahatma Gandhi's ideas are relevant today. He was a visionary and possessed...

German Bakery, Pune blast case- another mistake is repeated

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By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net

2011 Census of India – the critical factor affecting growth rate differential

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By Misbahuddin Mirza The figures from the 2011 Census of India are here. The numbers matched predictions, based on previous growth patterns. While the...

Mediation can resolve disputes: Mukherjee

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By IANS,

Indian law: Domestic Violence Act

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By Avani Bansal for TwoCircles.net -- Advocate Avani Bansal is currently a student doing Masters at Harvard Law School . She pursued MPhil in Law at...

Unbecoming of Sumariwala to run down Indian coaches

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By Veturi Srivatsa, Adille Sumariwalla has the gift of the gab and the knack of manipulating the media. The Athletic Federation of India’s president ran faster than he did his 100m dash in his heyday by running down Indian coaches, saying they are just not good enough to produce international athletes.

After 15 years of wait, Gulberg society verdict takes us back to square one

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By Shaj Hameed for Twocircles.net “The firing by Jafri played a pivotal role in inciting the mob” – CM Modi, allegedly the...

Delhi HC notice on school management quota issue

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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice to the city government on a petition questioning its decision to scrap management quota...

नोखा: जानिए एशिया की सबसे बड़ी मोठ मंडी को

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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...

Champions Trophy a big test for India

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By Veturi Srivatsa, The gold-medal winning performance at the Incheon Asian Games and the bilateral Test series triumph in Australia may not count for much when India go into the Champions Trophy to take on the world’s truly best sides.

Ahmedinijad – Playing with fire

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By Karoly,

Inappropriate usage jars

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By Vishnu Makhijani, You would've often heard that "fool-proof security" is in place. Okay, so a fool can't get past but what if a dude...

Article of Hate: Swamy attacks EC for show-cause notice

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Story of a hot war of letters between Election Commission and Subramanian Swamy By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

AMU ranked top-notch university for research in ‘US News Best Global Universities Rankings’

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TCN News Aligarh: The seventh annual US News Best Global Universities Rankings has given Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) premium position in the Indian and global...

A letter to Rohith Vemula from a young Muslim

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Mahtab Alam for Twocircles.net Dear Rohith, I am not sure how or whether this letter will ever reach you. However, after reading and rereading your heartbreaking...

Sale of party tickets in Indian democracy

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By Syed Ali Mujtaba, The allegation by the senior Congress leaders Margaret Alva and Yogendra Makwana regarding the sale of party tickets have brought the functional dynamics of the Indian democracy into open, purportedly touted as the largest in the world. Each ticket was supposedly sold at a premium of 80 lakh to 1 crore rupees. A cheap bargain described a witty scribe when he heard the rates and said in actual practice the price tag are much higher.

Stalling nuclear deal will be a historical mistake

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By K. Subrahmanyam, IANS There is widespread media speculation on the chances of the India-International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards agreement being finalised and submitted to the board of governors. The issue that is being hotly debated is whether the Left parties will allow the safeguards agreement to be processed further by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government when the Indian delegation concludes the draft agreement with the IAEA.

बिहार का बवंडर : अब लड़ाई चुनावी हार-जीत से कहीं आगे की बात है…

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जावेद अनीस बिहार ने एक बार फिर देश की राजनीति में बवंडर ला दिया है. बिहार के मुख्यमंत्री नीतीश कुमार ने आख़िरकार अपनी “अंतरात्मा...

Ramadan at a New York City construction site

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By Misbahuddin Mirza, P.E., The premixed-mortar feeder belched a huge plume of gray dry cement cloud into the air as a new batch was fed into the mixer. I made a mental note of this as I stepped off the scaffold, and onto the stair-tower to begin my descent towards mother earth. The site was abuzz with life. Laborers were using mechanical lifts to convey construction material up to the construction location. Fork lifts scurried around moving pallets loaded with construction material.

Out: the palpably corrupt and the pretentious ideologue

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By Amulya Ganguli, IANS,

Batla House Encounter: A struggle for India

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net

33 years of struggle and the battle is on!

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By Reeti Mahobe, What’s common between the Oscar winning movie, Life of Pi, and her? That continuously ongoing struggle not just of life but for life. But her indomitable spirit is unmatched for. She is rare yet very special. This is about Payel Bhattacharya who has seen 33 years of life with each day being a mystery to unravel bringing in either new hopes or more often the new hurdles to conquer through. On this occasion of Rare Disease Day, she expresses her intent to spread awareness on VHL or Von Hippel Lindau Disease, the condition with which she has lived for all these years.

Nine years in office

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Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam of Institute of Objective Studies (IOS) comments on the nine years of UPA in office. Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam,

India should cultivate relations with Central Asia: Bhadrakumar

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By Irfan Shahid,

The Budget and India’s Future

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By Amit Kapoor, The past few days have been particularly historic when talking about the impact they can have on India's trajectory of growth and economic development. It is because the maiden budget from India’s new finance minister was announced on the July 10. It was a test of economic management on the part of the Narendra Modi government. There were a lot of expectations from the budget from all sections of society, be it business, agriculture or even the common man.

Verdict 2016: How did the Urdu Dailies report Assembly poll results?

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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...

Assam women in better condition than in BJP-ruled states: Gogoi

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Guwahati : Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday came out with statistics in BJP-ruled states to claim that the condition of women was...

Why the Madaris in India have failed to interact with fellow Indians

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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...

So watching TV is against Islam?

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By Nasiruddin Haider Khan

Vishwa Hindu Parishad warns J&K govt against disbanding defence committees

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Jammu: Right-wing organisation Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has warned the Jammu and Kashmir government against any move intended...

Communist obstinacy could derail India’s nuclear energy plans

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By A. Vinod Kumar, IANS, Ever since the 123 agreement was announced, the Communist parties have been raising various issues pertaining to it that have wider consequences on India's foreign policy. Foremost among their concerns are their references to the Hyde Act that leftist leaders argue would impinge on the autonomy of India's foreign policy and make India a junior partner of the US.

Asif Ibrahim, new chief of the Intelligence Bureau

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net

सोशल इंजीनियरिंग के लिए इतिहास से छेड़छाड़

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राम पुनियानी विभिन्न समुदायों को धार्मिक आधार पर ध्रुवीकृत करना और हिन्दू समुदाय में नीची जातियों का निम्न दर्जा बनाए रखना, हिन्दू राष्ट्रवाद का प्रमुख...

School education of minority (Muslim) girls in Andhra Pradesh

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By Dr. Rafat Seema,

Manmohan Singh’s second term: Drift, disunity, unfulfilled expectations

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By Amulya Ganguli, IANS, Expectations about the Manmohan Singh government performing better in its second term as the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) completes a year since it returned to power are yet to be fulfilled. It was hoped that a more secure majority in parliament and the absence of an obstructionist Communist bloc would enable the prime minister to push ahead faster with economic reforms and provide more purposeful governance.

Assam riots 2012: Congress can’t escape blame

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By AnIndianMuslim.com

A 400 year old Masjid and colony demolished in Delhi by Delhi Development Authority

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Resistance against the demolition of Ghousiya Masjid and colony in Delhi By Mohamed Tanveer Iqbal

Prepare youth to be the leaders of tomorrow

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By Nathan Render, CG News Service What do religious extremists and interfaith youth organisers have in common? A lot more than one might think. College students begin their search for summer internships with enthusiasm and excitement at the opportunity to make an impact. Unfortunately, many end up doing busywork, unable to share their skills and talents. Still, these overworked, underpaid students are motivated to find meaning in their jobs. Most are trying to find purpose in their lives as they transition from childhood to adolescence, and ultimately adulthood.

Irom Sharmila: the 10-year fast against the AFSPA

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Special series on Irom Sharmila--Part-1 By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,

काश! इन्हें भी समाज के मुख्यधारा में शामिल एक सामान्य इंसान माना जाता…

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फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net दोपहर के सन्नाटे में तेज़ तालियों और गाने की आवाज़ ने आती हुई नींद को झकझोर दिया. पूछने पर पता लगा कि...

India paying price for global oil speculation

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By Sushma Ramachandran, IANS, The government has bit the bullet and the cost of living has just shot up for people all over India. But there were few options before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. With world oil prices having reached astronomical levels, the state-run oil companies could not have continued subsidizing supplies of petroleum products to the nation. If left unchecked, the present situation would have led to oil companies going deep into the red - and that would have been an even worse disaster for the country.

Muslims look in from the outside

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By Mir Hasan Ali, TwoCircles.net Four years, three months, and counting. The Iraq Warâ€™s place in...

Piracy remains a global security threat

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By Commander (retd) Neil Gadihoke, IANS,

नोटबंदी: खामोशी से सहने वाले लोगों की तादाद इस मुल्‍क में अब भी ज्‍यादा...

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नासिरूद्दीन देश भर में ऐसी बेचैनी, अफरा-तफरी, परेशान हाल लोग जमाने बाद एक साथ सड़कों पर दिख रहे हैं. ये किसी पार्टी के ‘बहकावे’ या...

How realistic are Chidambaram’s fiscal projections?

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By Arvind Padmanabhan, IANS, One would have expected Finance Minister P. Chidambaram to go a little easy on the fiscal deficit front, given that he...

Trinamool Congress: Counting 35 and more to be key player

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By Ranjana Narayan , New Delhi: An air of quiet confidence pervades the Trinamool Congress office here as the party headed by "Didi", West Bengal...

We have no hatred for Hindus or Indians: Ghulam Hasan Majrooh

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Ghulam Hasan Majrooh is the Press Secretary of the All-Parties' Hurriyat Conference (Mirwaiz), a conglomerate of various political parties in Jammu and Kashmir supporting the right to Kashmir self-determination. He is also the General Secretary of the Ittihadul Muslimeen, a largely Shia political party, whose Chief Patron is the senior Kashmiri leader, Maulana Abbas Ansari.

Indian celebrities, Muslim faith

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By Ekram Haque,

‘Wiki’ leaks Chennai Consulate reports: ‘Kerala Muslims oppose American policies vehemently’

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By TCN News,

A critical exposition of popular Jihad

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By Maulvi Chiragh Ali

India’s Home Minister Mr. P. Chidambaram recently blamed Jihad for creating terrorism. This is not the first time that ignorance and prejudice prevailed over scholarship and policy when dealing with Islam or Muslims. In 1885, Chiragh Ali wrote a book A Critical Exposition of Popular Jihad to remove misunderstandings about Jihad. This book will also be instructive to those Muslims who try to masquerade their violence as jihad. This is the complete text of chapter 12 of the book. --- Editor

Woman judges and Sharia

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By Asghar Ali Engineer, Recently two women judges have been appointed in Malaysia in the Sharia court but strangely enough their appointment is conditional on their not handling cases pertaining to marriage and divorce. They can handle other cases like the custody of children, maintenance, property, etc. The appointment of women judges is a welcome move but the conditionality attached seems strange.

क्यों अय्यूब पंडित और जुनैद की हत्या एक समान नहीं है?

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शाहनवाज़ आलम हाल ही में श्रीनगर के जामा मस्जिद के बाहर डीएसपी अय्यूब पंडित की भीड़ द्वारा हत्या को एक हथियार की तरह उन लोगों...

Bihar poll diary: Campaigning in the time of call drops

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By Brajendra Nath Singh At least one thing is sure. Call drops don't just affect the common man. Even ministers are victims of the sudden...

Media is an Illusion

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By Shaik Zakeer Hussain,

Danger signals: Maoists seek linkages with Muslim extremists

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By P.V. Ramana, IANS, Naxalites of the Communist Party of India Maoist (CPI-Maoist) have condemned the extension of the proscription on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), which has been involved in a series of bomb blasts in India. According to media reports, Azad, spokesperson of the Central Committee of the CPI-Maoist, said "it was a reiteration of the (government's) policy to continue its brutal war on Muslims".

One last bright spark of Lucknow’s glorious tradition

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By Vikas Datta Any literary tradition demonstrates its virtuosity and vitality in how even its last proponents keep up its standards, even as the...

I have to escape from the death chamber, says Taslima

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By Taslima Nasreen

A day after she announced her decision to quit India, Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen tells IANS in an email of her mental trauma of being confined to a 'safe house' in New Delhi for several months:

ASI is serving Hindutva ideology: Omar Khalidi

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net

Kashmir: The valley of gloom

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By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net,

India pitches tourism for South Asian integration

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By Saroj Mohanty, After talks with the Bhutanese leadership, Prime minister Narendra Modi Monday proposed developing a tourism circuit combining India's Northeast region and the Himalayan nation. This came weeks after he conferred with other South Asian leaders and external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj spoke about some "new initiatives" that could be taken to build a new architecture of development cooperation among SAARC countries. One of those, she said, is tourism.

The concept of jihad in Islam

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By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan (Translated from Urdu by Yoginder Sikand)* The word 'jihad' is derived from the root juhd, which means 'to strive' or 'to struggle'. It denotes the exertion of oneself to the utmost, to the limits of one's capacity, in some activity or for some purpose. This is how the word is understood in Arabic grammar.

Saudi Haj management needs toning up

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By Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood On 11 and 24 September 2015 two incidents occurred in the Muslim sacred Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia causing death...

Defeated in poll, Hindutva forces rearing their ugly head in Delhi

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By Subhash Gatade, Wahidbhai, who is nearing sixties, is feeling low since last few days. A doctor by profession, he is suddenly contemplating shifting to his paternal home in Jama Masjid area from his own flat in Rohini. In fact it was only a few years ago that he had purchased this flat despite opposition from his other relatives.

The Islamic State and the “Caliphate” of Al Baghdadi – Of Power, Politics &...

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By Dr.Ajmal, The pace of the developments, in terms of religious awareness, political turbulence, social upheaval in the Muslim world has surprised many, the likes of which has not been seen for centuries. One of those, have been the announcement of Caliphate by the organization that calls itself Islamic State of Levant.

Sex, lies and videotape hit BJP

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By Amulya Ganguli, IANS,

Who is a progressive Muslim?

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By Asghar Ali Engineer

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

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By Kaleem Kawaja,

Kohinoor gifted to Britain, government tells SC

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New Delhi: The government on Monday told the Supreme Court that the East India Company did not take away the Kohinoor diamond but it...

सज़ा पूरी पर अभी भी हैं जेलों में बंद…

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नेशनल क्राईम रिकॉर्ड ब्यूरो के ताज़े आंकड़ों के मुताबिक़ देश के विभिन्न जेलों में 1326 क़ैदी ऐसे हैं, जिन्होंने अपनी मुक़र्रर...

What is the National Dharma Shastra?

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By Ram Puniyani Judiciary as the top arbiter of the disputes on all the issues is some times caught up in delivering judgments on things for which an individual judge may not be well equipped. The case in point is the famous 'Hindutva as a way of life' by Justice Varma of Supreme Court.

Can India afford to ignore Islamic banking?

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By Raza Elahi, The recent statement of MS Swaminathan, the father of green revolution in India, that Islamic banking can be a solution for farmers’ suicide in Vidarbha is apt reply to those opposing it tooth and nail by terming this banking system as anti-economic growth.

Equal speak: Life of possibilities

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By Mohammed Yousuf for TwoCircles.net,

RBI is inflating the Indian Economy

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By Syed Zahid Ahmad, The recession in the US and prevailed uncertainty in the petroleum producing nations had provided an opportunity for India to pull capital resources from the US and Gulf countries, but the practical approach of RBI has converted the opportunities into challenges as the liquidity and inflation are certainly not under the control of the RBI which is attempting to freeze the liquidity by increasing the interest rate and cost of credits. FICCI and the corporate sector have already criticized RBI’s recent announcement to increase the rate of interest.

Does UP victory make Modi’s return in 2019 smooth?

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By Vishav and Saurabh Katkurwar New Delhi, (IANS): With the BJP sweeping Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and making major inroads into the north east with...

TCN special: Misra Commission report excerpts- Part 11

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By TwoCircles.net news desk, Misra Commission report excerpts - home page Institutional Structures for the Development of Minorities

Does the BJP intend to change the Indian Constitution?

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By Ram Puniyani BJP, which believes in Hindu nationalism, faces a dilemma about Indian Constitution. The party, at least on the surface, has to pay...

Does it matter who wins election in Araria?

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By Ashish Ranjan and Kalyani B This is where the road ends tarmac of India shining gives way to gravel and red dirt of...

Is Social Distancing: Myth or Panic?

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Istikhar Ali, Lochan Sharma Diseases have always harmed society’s cohesion, not just with its consequences, but the myth that broadens distance within family and society...

Who Cleans the Mess?

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By Arshad Shaikh, The noose of the global financial crisis has slowly begun to throttle the economies of the world with disastrous consequences. The American economy which is at the epicenter of the crisis is failing rapidly, necessitating comparisons with the Great Depression of 1929.

Writers’ Buildings renovation yet to start even after three years

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By Sahana Ghosh Kolkata : As the glossy facade of Nabanna - the temporary seat of the West Bengal government in neighbouring Howrah - prepares...

दिल्ली चुनाव : छोटी गलती पर बड़ी पकड़

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By मो. आसिफ़ इक़बाल, देश की राजधानी दिल्ली फ़िलहाल सियासी पार्टियों और उनके प्रत्याशियों का अखाड़ा बनी हुई है. हर तरफ शोर-शराबा, जलसे-जुलूस, भाषण और घोषणाएं मौजूद हैं, जिन्होंने दिल्ली में एक विचित्र माहौल पैदा कर दिया है. ऐसा नहीं है कि दिल्ली में पहली बार चुनाव होने जा रहे हैं. लेकिन इसके बावजूद देश की दो बड़ी राजनीतिक पार्टियां - सत्तारूढ़ भाजपा और पिछले पंद्रह साल दिल्ली में सरकार में रहने वाली कांग्रेस - दोनों ही कुछ हैरान-परेशान दिख रही हैं. इन दो सबसे बड़ी राजनीतिक दलों की इस परेशानी दिल्लीवाले पहली बार महसूस भी कर रहे हैं.

For BCCI, much hinges on poll outcome

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By Veturi Srivatsa, Indian cricket is heading for heady times. Everyone’s calculations in the Indian cricket board, except the Supreme Court, hinges on the outcome...

Maharashtra Waqf board CEO’s assistant suspended under graft charges

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By TwoCircles.net Staff reporter, Aurangabad: The personal assistant of Maharashtra Waqf board CEO has been put under suspension after recovery of incriminating documents from his...

Tehran opts for the hard way

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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Pyotr Goncharov) - Tehran plans to take a tougher stance in its dialogue with the UN Security Council over its nuclear program. This conclusion is prompted by the resignation of Ali Larijani as head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council on Saturday. He was Iran's chief negotiator on the nuclear issue. Changing negotiators at a crucial moment is a bad policy, but Iran is changing more than personnel; it is changing its policy, along with the political elite.

We must learn to respect people of other sects and religions: Khalid Saifullah Rahmani

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By Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rehmani, Based in Hyderabad, Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani is one of the leading present-day Indian ulema. Author of some 50 books, mainly on Islamic jurisprudence, he is a senior member of numerous important Islamic organizations, including the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board, the Islamic Fiqh Academy, the Bahrain-based Association of Islamic Banks and the Council for Inter-Sectarian Dialogue, Tehran, Iran.

Economics of Islamic Banking in India

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By Syed Zahid Ahmad,

With silent debates on Islamic Banking in India among Indian Muslims, some of our financial sector players and political leaders, time has come that besides considering the religious, social, political and diplomatic dimensions, we should understand the economics of Islamic banking for Indian economy.

Is Rajiv Tyagi the latest non-Muslim victim of Islamophobia?

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By Syed Amjad Hussain On 12 August, Rajiv Tyagi, the national Spokesperson for Indian National Congress Party (INC), appeared on a television debate where he was bullied...

Ganguly in right place at right time

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By Veturi Srivatsa, India’s first cricket captain to win back-to-back series in the West Indies and England, Ajit Wadekar was called lucky. Sourav Ganguly, the other captain who gave the team confidence of winning overseas, is also lucky in a different way.

Only Nehru’s inclusive vision will save India

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By Sarfaraz Nasir For more than two months into the Coronavirus epidemic, India has consistently recorded the highest reported case and highest death rate among...

Blind dancers of Articulate Ability perform in Boston

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From Darkness Unto Light, they lead us all ... By Umang Kumar, Boston: They ended their performance by dancing to a piece which took its title from a Sanskrit sloka, “Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya,” - “Lead me from Darkness unto Light,” - urging the powers Almighty to lead them towards light - and yet it seemed that it was they who were leading us in the audience to ever-increasing light and vision.

Iceland’s volcanic ash hit India’s exports as well

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By Sushma Ramachandran, IANS, Even as India's airlines were struggling to get back to normalcy after weathering the global recession, the volcanic ash from Iceland has given the industry another jolt while also affecting the country's exports.

Amplifying Advani logic

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By Mubasshir Mushtaq, Law and order have two enemies: the Full Truth and the Complete Lie. When people realize the truth, they start revolutions. When they are fed lies they begin meaningless riots. (M.J. Akbar, 1979)

Extraordinary stories of ordinary women

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TCN Special Series: Part 1 on Nazma Phumdreimeiyum By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,

‘Narrative of shakhas and fulminations of right wing fundamentalists are now mainstream discourse’

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With six MPs, the Lok Janshakti Party may not count for much in the 330-plus ruling NDA. But Abdul Khaliq, secretary general of LJP, is the first ally to speak out against ‘the unfettered hate being spewed’ against Muslims by ‘a long list of hate mongers’. The by-election results in Bihar and UP are being viewed as a vindication of the deep-rooted and strong secular credentials of the nation. As heartening to the secular devotees is the Prime Minister’s statement that Indian Muslims would live and die for the country. However, the fact that the PM has thought it necessary to underline the patriotism of Muslims is in itself deeply disturbing. Implicit in the statement is the frightening reality of how the Muslim is viewed in today’s India.

Missing the point on the NCTC

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By Bhaskar Menon,

Rampage around Film Padmavati: Power of Historical Fiction

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By Ram Puniyani Nearly an year ago multiple rowdy protests took place when the film Padmavati was being shot in Rajasthan. Sanjay Leela Bhansali had...

Charter of Demands: Long cherished demands of the Muslims in Assam

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MY FACTS, a Guwahati based Muslim pressure group, puts forward their demands. By Sofiul Islam Khan,

Forgetting Minorities Rights Day is NOT Good Governance

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By Shah Ahmed, TwoCircles.net, Ever since Narendra Modi took over as the Prime Minister of India, the right wing groups including the RSS and those affiliated with the RSS are ruling the roost…not a single day goes by without a provocative statement from the RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal and other right wing fringe groups that threatens the secular fabric of the country.

Long wait for acquittals: Saddam Hussain

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A series of blasts on February 14, 1998 in Coimbatore killed 58 and injured over 200 people. Ever since that serial blasts Muslims...

The telecom debate: jumping to flawed conclusions

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By Arvind Padmanabhan, IANS,

Commonwealth Games: Build morale now, criticize later

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By Sanjiv Kataria, IANS, As the clock gallops closer to Oct 3, the date when the 2010 Commonwealth Games begin at New Delhi, I am amongst the millions of terribly nervous Indians. It is the same awful feeling that I experienced as a student when my exam preparations were below par.

Rs 180 crore- that is the annual earning of beggars in India

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By Mohammed Siddique, TwoCircles.net, Do you know how many beggars are there in India and what is their collective annual income? How much a beggar spends on his food and where the remaining money goes? An interesting study by a Hyderabad based sociologist Dr Mohammed Rafiuddin has come up with some interesting and incisive details about the beggars and problem of begging in the country, especially in Hyderabad.

Why can’t India have its own ‘patriotic hackers’?

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By Mayank Chhaya, IANS, Revelations by Canadian investigators that a cyber spy ring based in China specifically targeted India's defence establishment are expected to set off a major cyber security overhaul by New Delhi. Privileged information suggests the Indian government could seriously consider creating the position of a cyber security czar whose mandate would be to fundamentally overhaul cyber security and bring the currently fragmented networks under a clearly defined structure.

APCR building national network of legal activists for Muslim community

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By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, With rise in terror attacks in India in the last couple of years for which Muslims were blamed – in a few cases maybe rightly but generally without going into probe and proof – the already backward and deprived community have faced a new serious problem: picking of their youths from here and there, gross violation of their civil and human rights and boycott of lawyers to take up cases of terror suspects.

Can Modi swing Jammu for the BJP?

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By Sheikh Qayoom, Jammu : It's a constituency the Congress has won eight times and which it currently holds. The BJP has won Jammu - its 1.76 million voters making it the largest among the six Lok Sabha constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir - thrice and could just come up trumps this time around thanks to the Narendra Modi factor.

Indian Muslims! Wake up and unite or you will be eaten up by wolves

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, There is a famous story that many might have already heard. It is an excellent parable for the Indian Muslims...

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.

Dear Muslims, persecution should drive you to reason, not religion

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By Iqbal Salahkar Protests against National Population Register (NPR), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) dominated India’s political discourse in the...

Islam and public morality

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By Asghar Ali Engineer

Reviving Islam

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By Rupa Abdi, TwoCircles.net

Hajra ASW: The Iron Lady of Islam

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By Asma Anjum Khan for TwoCircles.net As children, we all have read that great civilizations are born near the rivers. Once upon a time, a civilization...

Will The Hindu Reader’s Editor please listen?

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By Dr Yaseen Ashraf, The credibility of the ‘renowned terror expert’ of The Hindu, Praveen Swami, has now come down to near-zero, risking the credibility of the paper itself. Trusting the fake stories Swami files, both the editorial section of the news paper and the readers are getting misled. One example is the Mecca Masjid bombing at Hyderabad. It pays to read The Hindu editorial of October 15, 2007. Titled “Challenge of Islamic terror”, the editorial begins as follows:

Science And The Islamic World

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By Mohammad Tariq Saeed In response to the article published in Outlook magazine by Parvez Hoodbhoy This is a very good article and the author deserves our commendation for its being published in a major national magazine. Serves to clear up quite a few misconceptions, especially prevalent in the sub-continent. Also presents a wealth of contemporary statistics, showing very plainly and truly the intellectual poverty of the Muslim world. However there are a few points which need further discussion:

Lessons we draw from the elections 2009

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By Syed Ali Hashmi, By sundown on 16th of May the electoral scene of the country was clear. While the winners are jubilant and losers are licking their wounds, let’s think for a while as to what lessons do we draw out of the long and arduous process of election 2009 in India. Basic Indian character is secular

Election results bode well for Congress

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By Gilles Verniers, IANS, With election results in five states in, it appears that the Congress party will be quite unaffected by the recent economic slowdown and the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. This could bode well for the party for the next general elections which are due in April/May next year.

A tale of two encounters: Dehradun and Batla House

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By Manish Sethi and Adeel Mehdi Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Group extends its heart-felt condolences to the family of Ranbir Singh, the youth who was killed in a police encounter in Dehradun last week. This encounter again brings to the fore the trigger happy ways of the Indian police who kill and torture for medals and promotions. We demand exemplary punishment for the guilty policemen.

Space militarization

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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Kislyakov) - Earlier this month, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a new priority for his department - protection of America's satellites. As if to underline the importance of the task, he demanded in early February that Congress allocate 10.7 billion dollars for the purpose in 2009. Russia has voiced similar concerns. Air Force Commander Col.-Gen. Alexander Zelin told a conference at the Academy of Military Sciences in mid-January that the biggest threats to Russia in the 21st century come from air and space.

Pokhran-III prospects dead on Pokhran-II anniversary?

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By Tarun Vijay, IANS, What difference does it make who signed the Pokhran files? Brajesh Mishra, the powerful former security advisor to then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, revealed a bit too late. There was a time when the Congress must have felt elated to claim making India nuclear. The first Pokhran test (in 1974) was their contribution and Indira Gandhi dared the Americans bravely. Should we be ashamed of it or try to delete that chapter from Indian history just because she happened to be another party's leader?

Law Ministry, not HRD, has put AMU Kishanganj on hold

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By Mohammed Mudassir Alam,

Politicans playing dirty over displaced Bodos in BTAD: Promising Land Patta inside Forest

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By Abdul Kalam Azad Assam: This is election time in Assam and political parties are not leaving any stone unturned to get as much...

Indian State response: An account of Rohingya’s Refugees in Kalindi Kunj Camp

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By Badre Alam and Sanjay Kumar Rohingya’s Muslim Refugees after ethnic violence came to settle in many cities in India like Jaipur, Kolkata, Haryana, Delhi...

Where is the Aligarian spirit?

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By M. Ghazali Khan Inna Lillahi-wa-Inna Ilehi Rajioon! Once again an innocent life has been lost. Once again AMU is in the media for the failure of its administration in maintaining law and order and the unruliness of its students.

Environmental pollution and India’s competitiveness

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By Amit Kapoor, Walking down most streets in any major city in India, one notices pollution in one form or another. The air most times causes a burning sensation, or if that is missing, one can at least see empty cold drinks' bottles, wrappers and the like thrown across the streets. It appears all-pervasive.

An open letter to Salman Khurshid

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By Kaleem Kawaja, Honorable Minister Khurshid

कांधों पर दर्द की गठरी लादे मेहनतकशों के लिए दर्दमंदी की चादर लेकर...

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मुसलसल चलने वालों के लिए भोपाल में मुसलसल जारी है ख़िदमत का दौर हाईवे पर दिन-रात मौजूद रहते हैं ख़िदमतगार खाना, पानी, दूध,...

Muslims and media images: Where things went wrong

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By Vinod Mehta Before I come to the subject matter of this essay, I must make a disclaimer, namely, that I do not bring to the issue an academic’s or a specialist’s perspective. All I can say is that I have been an English language editor for more than twenty-five years, and in that period I certainly have a working experience and knowledge of some of the problems and some of the complaints of Muslims in this country in terms of their media representation, especially in the English-language section of the press.

The lesser known facts of the much hyped case

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By SayemaSahar, From the Court of Honourable Justice Anant S. Dave (Date: 22/03/2012)

Not Just BJP, it is the Indian State which is Islamophobic

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By Iqbal Salahkar Exactly six years back, in the first week of April 2014, the polling for Lok Sabha elections began. BJP-led-National Democratic Alliance, registering...

Is Tibet reaching a decisive phase?

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By Mayank Chhaya, IANS Fractures in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet run far deeper than not just what China would have the world believe but had probably convinced itself about. It is more than likely that Beijing would stamp out the spiralling protests with urgency mixed with ruthlessness, especially because it is desperate to ensure a smooth conduct of the impending Olympic games. However, what it is unlikely to accomplish is put a firm lid on the searing heat generated by the uprising.

Bonjour India, Namaste France

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By Rajiv Bhatia, IANS,

Do not shift the goal-post please!

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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. – Tacitus By Soroor Ahmed, TwoCircles.net,

A different, dangerous land: Three alternate depictions of Britain

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By Vikas Datta, Mankind has always had a hankering for a more perfect, equitable society than the one they live in and many have tried to give it a shape - Plato in "The Republic", Christian theologian St Augustine with "The City of God" for his co-religionists to aspire to, and English statesman Sir Thomas More, who coined a generic name for it with his "Utopia" (1516). But as visionaries kept on dreaming of ideal societies, its converse also developed - the brutal, dehumanising "dystopia" - based on fears of increasing intrusion of the modern state into people's lives, extreme ideologies, and technological developments that could aid control - and ultimately, repression.

Retaliating against the Pen with the Sword is not the Way of Islam: Understanding...

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By Abhik Bhattacharya The falling of Bhoomi Puja in Ayodhya and the celebration of the first anniversary of Kashmir being constitutionally stripped off its special...

Assam: Ethnic Communal Divides to the Fore

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By Ram Puniyani, The recent (May 01, 2014) violence in Kokrajhar, Baska killing 32 Bengali speaking Muslims is one more reminder of the seeping Bodo-Muslim tension in the region. This violence is being attributed to Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), whose legislator Pramila Rani Brahma allegedly stated that her party candidate and Assam minister may not win in the present elections as according to her knowledge Muslims had not voted for him and have voted for a non-Bodo candidate. This is what seems to have provoked the violence, but surely this is tip of the iceberg as the problems between two communities are much deeper and are in a way continuation of the same reasons which led to the violence in the region in July 2012. This is also related to the subtle threat for the forthcoming Assembly elections of 2015.

छत्तीसगढ़ के पत्रकार खतरे में – एडिटर्स गिल्ड

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TCN News नई दिल्ली: एडिटर्स गिल्ड ने छत्तीसगढ़ में पत्रकारों के खिलाफ हो रही कार्रवाई पर चिंता जताई है. `एडिटर्स गिल्ड’ की जांच टीम ने...

SAI, not federations, raises Incheon hopes

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By Veturi Srivatsa, If Sports Authority of India (SAI) director general Jiji Thomson confidently says India will win 70-75 medals at the Incheon Asian Games, one has to take the figure seriously. Normally, it is the national sports federations that make tall claims about their chances, not the sports ministry or any of its agencies.

Reviving a Tradition: Muslim Women as Religious Authorities

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By Yoginder Sikand

Islamia Shamshul Huda: Story of a Madrasa

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By Najam Gilani, TwoCircles.net, In the University area of Patna, exactly opposite the prestigious Science collage is another institution of equal prestige, if not more. The only difference between the two collages is that one is affiliated with Patna University and has courses of all the streams of arts and science, whereas in the case of other, it follows the PU syllabus but only of arts.

An apology

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By Uri Avnery, CGNews, This week, the Prime Minister of Canada made a dramatic statement in Parliament: he apologised to the indigenous peoples of his country for the injustices done to them for generations by successive Canadian governments. This way, White Canada tries to make peace with the native nations, whose country their forefathers conquered and whose culture their rulers have tried to wipe out.

Root-out financial fraud to protect the bottom of pyramid

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Abdul Kalam Azad, TwoCircles.net,

Meet Darul Uloom students

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By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net, Part 2 of the seven part TwoCircles.net series on Darul Uloom Deoband Students from across the country as well as outside of it come to take parts in entrance test of Darul Ulom Deoband every year but very few realize their dreams as the seminary has limited number of seats.