A new coffee table book of black and white photographs, to be globally launched in October, captures underlying threads of ...

Amlan Ganguly is a visionary. This lawyer-turned-community activist is not only changing a neighborhood, but also changing the way its youngest residents envision their lives. In this character-driven ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The paper explores the interfaces of urbanisation, settlement practices, and issues of labour migration and displacement in contemporary ...

Kolkata: A major fire broke out in a slum area on the eastern outskirts of Kolkata on Friday. No casualty was reported in incident the incident so far. According to fire department sources, at least ...

KOLKATA, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It's not easy giving directions when you live in a slum. All his life, Dipak Roy had identified his home as the one on the corner, down the third by-lane, ...

Residents of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) have criticised a sequence in The Avengers that features the city's slums. In the film, The Hulk's alter ego Dr. Bruce Banner, played by Mark Ruffalo, is seen ...

The opening scenes of "The Avengers" -- showing Hulk's alter ego Dr. Bruce Banner in hiding in Kolkata's slums helping cure lepers -- has faced some criticism in India. “Kolkata has a rich culture and ...