Maleesha Kharwa, once a young girl selling tissues on the streets to support her family, emerged as a rising supermodel, ...

Next to Mumbai's bustling international airport, a boy picks through refuse, looking for pieces he can recycle and sell to support his family of 11. He is a resident of Annawadi, a slum built on a ...

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 ...

Dr Armida Fernandez, pioneer of Indian neonatology and founder of Asia’s first human milk bank, is awarded the Padma Shri for ...

When the sun sets over the narrow lanes of Cheetah Camp and Sathe Nagar, a quiet vigil begins in the slums. Eyes stay alert, ...

Standing in the house he had bought for his father in Mumbai, Hemant Shukla, an Indian IT professional settled in the US, ...

Children broke into Bollywood dance numbers and crowds cheered in the narrow lanes of a teeming Mumbai slum on Monday as their hometown heroes nabbed Hollywood's highest honors. Two of the child ...

MUMBAI—In this land-starved financial capital of India, where millions live in slums, a developer late last year started razing two-story brick shanties and tin-shelters near Dhobi Ghat, the world’s ...

BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS (Random House), by Katherine Boo: This book should come with a warning -- reading it may be hazardous to your rosy view that global capitalism will set the world's ...