Punish tipplers with brooms, says Bihar women's panchayat
By Imran KhanPatna: A women's panchayat in a Bihar village has ordered women to punish with brooms people found consuming and selling liquor, while imposing a ban on liquor consumption, an official...
View ArticleIn their gloomy isolation after Memon hanging, Muslims turn to Owaisi
By Saeed Naqvi In the night of the tyrants,Who calls my name from afar?I must climb the scaffolding of the gallows to see beyond the prison parapets.Have they waylaid the caravan of the new...
View ArticleWhy capital punishment will continue in India
By Amulya GanguliNotwithstanding the efforts made by the saffron lobby to pretend that Yakub Memon's religion had nothing to do with his hanging, the belief that the two are inextricably linked will...
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Educated youth joining militant ranks trend on the rise in Kashmir
Yet another post graduate militant falls to security forces’ bulletsBy: Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.netKakpora (Pulwama): Talib Afzal Shah, a terrorist for Indian security forces and a rebel for...
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What about internal colonialism, Mr. Tharoor?
By Jaspal SinghRecently Shashi Tharoor, a Congress party Member of Parliament, participated in a debate on reparations for colonial rule by Britain in Oxford university. Those who were opposed to the...
View ArticleIndia of our dreams now seems beyond reach: Freedom fighter
By Sandeep Sharma New Delhi : Of the many freedom fighters who liberated India from the 200-year-long British rule, one was Gour Hari Das, whose struggle didn't end even after independence. He says his...
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In hope for a better tomorrow at Khagrabari camps in Baksa
Even as India celebrated the 69th Independence Day on Saturday, there are many people in the country who have strive hard to understand even the meaning of independence.Abdul Gani of TwoCircles.net...
View ArticleModi’s leap of vision: Is India ready for a larger role?
By Tarun BasuAt a recent international conference organised by the Assilah Forum Foundation in the eponymous picture postcard-pretty town in northern Morocco, speakers highlighted the importance of...
View ArticleWhat did Colonialism do to India?
Ram Puniyani,A video of Shashi Tharoor speaking at Oxford on a debate related to the colonial period has been ‘viral’ on the social circuit for a while. In this video Tharoor makes a passionate plea to...
View ArticlePakistan wants to involve Islamic group on Kashmir, criticises SAARC...
By Arul LouisUnited Nations: Pakistan launched a thinly veiled criticism of India over the functioning of SAARC as it tried to involve the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) in the Kashmir...
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Bajrangi Bhaijan: How I learned to stop worrying and love Shri Raam
By Shilpi Suneja for TwoCircles.netA few days before I watched the much hyped Bajrangi Bhaijan the Supreme Court of India upheld its decision to hang Yakub Memon, a key suspect held for the 1993 Mumbai...
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Faux journalism and democracy
By Pramod Kumar for TwoCircles.netThe media is indeed the Fourth Pillar of democracy and is, therefore, by implication and extension, as relevant as the other three pillars in terms of “checks and...
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बीस साल के लड़के का सत्याग्रह
सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.netवाराणसी: दिन भर पीठ पर एक बैकपैक टांगे, पुराने मैले कपड़े पहने, एक साइकिल के सहारे बनारस के मंडलीय अस्पतालों के चक्कर काटते अमन को बनारस में कम लोग ही जानते हैं. अमन यादव,...
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Hamida Aapa ki yaaden
By Shaheer Khan for TwoCircles.netEminent Urdu writer Hamida Salim passed away on Sunday, August 16th at the age of 93 at her house in Delhi. She was laid to rest at Jamia Millia Islamia graveyard on...
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Curious case of Moinal Mollah: Both parents Indian, but declared foreigner
Moinal Mollah documents Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net Guwahati: Asma Khatun (25) has been struggling with life under extreme circumstances where she has very slim chance of seeing her husband again though...
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Mirza Aejaz Baig: An ordinary teacher with an extra-ordinary zeal for poor to...
By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net,Central government is spending crores of rupees to eradicate illiteracy through scores of schemes such as Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (The Education for All Movement) and...
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मुस्लिम समुदाय : संख्या पर घमासान
काशिफ़ उल हुदा, TwoCircles.netबीते कुछ दिनों से समाचार चैनलों की सुर्खियां आंकड़ों के मुकाबिले ज्यादा बातें कर रही हैं. हाल में ही भारत सरकार ने 2011 में की गयी जनगणना के धर्माधारित आंकड़े सार्वजनिक किए...
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बिहार स्वाभिमान रैली की कहानी... तस्वीरों की ज़ुबानी...
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, Twocircles.net, सुबह से ही अलग-अलग ज़िलों से आए कार्यकर्ता रैली की शक्ल में गांधी मैदान जाते हुए...सारे कार्यकर्ता ढोल-नगाड़ों की धुन पर पूरे जोश के साथ पटना की सड़कों पर नाचते...
View ArticleTeen suicides jolt Kashmir
By Shamshad AliSrinagar: After her wake-up knocks at Mohsin's (name changed) door in the morning got no response, the worried mother called her husband. The door, locked from inside, was then broken...
View ArticleFanaticism on rise in India, Bangladesh: Taslima Nasrin
New Delhi: Drawing parallels between the cold blooded killings of bloggers in Bangladesh and the murder of M.M. Kalburgi, a writer and rationalist from Karnataka, Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin said...
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