Fresh nationwide exercise planned for 2027 to reassess scale, living conditions and population in informal settlements ...
The forces at work in the India of The Revolutionary Optimists, an engaging documentary portrait of several children seeking to improve life in India’s slums, appear overwhelming from almost every ...
The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. “We were so frightened,” said 56-year-old ...
The forces at work in the India of The Revolutionary Optimists, an engaging documentary portrait of several children seeking to improve life in India’s slums, appear overwhelming from almost every ...
Hazeena looked pale and hungry when she came to a kindergarten managed by Catholic nuns in a southern Indian state. A few months earlier, the 7-year-old girl was seen helping her parents in the ...
When the sun sets over the narrow lanes of Cheetah Camp and Sathe Nagar, a quiet vigil begins in the slums. Eyes stay alert, ...
A foreign travel blogger's post about wealth disparity in India has triggered a debate as several defended the visible socio-economic contrasts that define Indian cities. Declan Rowlands, a travel ...
New Delhi: Slum-dwellers of Delhi’s Kalindi Kunj, Shaheen Bagh, Jamia Nagar and Seelampur have said the authorities are conducting a door-to-door drive to check for “illegal immigrants from Bangladesh ...
BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo (Random House) This book should come with a warning: Reading it may be hazardous to your rosy view that ...