Until recently, Vikas Gawali lived in a one-room shack with his wife, two daughters, his mother, his older brother and sister-in-law, their children, and another brother—12 people in a single room.

BHUBANESWAR/MUMBAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Once known as Temple City for its ancient Hindu temples, Bhubaneswar in the eastern Indian state of Odisha aims to reposition itself as a hub ...

As the people living in a densely populated slum here begin their morning chores, drawing water for their animals and sweeping out the dust that has settled overnight, hundreds of student volunteers ...

Mumbai, India (CNN) — When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch of land where he set up shop was “just a creek with no proper road and garbage all ...

"I'm very happy (with) myself that before I used to stay in a hut, but now I have (a) nice house for myself, and now I will take a very big house for my family on rent." “Now I'm in 10th standard. So, ...

Bipinkumar Padaya (C) live in a one-storey home crammed into a tangle of alleys - Copyright ENGINEER JEROME MARTINEZ/AFP Handout Bipinkumar Padaya (C) live in a one ...

Stencilled just above the stairs, the red mark in Mumbai's Dharavi slum is tantamount to an eviction notice for residents like Bipinkumar Padaya. "I was born here, my father was born here, my ...