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 ...

When the sun goes down, India's megacity most intense side comes to light. Queer subculture, everyday slum life and spiritual ...

He grew up in the cramped, noisy bylanes of a Mumbai slum, in a house where every day came with its own worries. Money was ...

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

This interview was originally broadcast on Feb. 8, 2012. On Wednesday, Katherine Boo won the National Book Award for nonfiction for Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist ...

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 ...

Around 17,000 slum dwellers will get free homes as redevelopment of Mata Ramabai Nagar in Mumbai's Ghatkopar area kicked off on Tuesday. An official ceremony (Bhoomipujan) for the redevelopment of ...

Limitless S2 features poignant human stories in an uplifting and evocative series. We follow five youths from Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines, India and Cambodia, who push against the odds with ...