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 ...

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 ...

MUMBAI, (IANS) – Popular choreographer Ganesh Acharya, who has made the who’s who of Bollywood dance to his steps, recalled his rags to riches journey in the industry. The choreographer said that the ...

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 ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — "Oh, I got something better than the Taj Mahal. I've got a toilet school in the slums of Delhi." Those are the words Tim Philpot recalled hearing his best friend and tour guide say ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Mumbai's monsoon deaths hit the poor hardest. Slum residents face higher risks from waterborne diseases and flood injuries. A study shows heavy rain increases mortality for slum-dwellers. Rising sea ...

Despite Rs 175 crore spent in four years, just 58 slums cleared across state; 45 lakh people living in ramshackle housing Even as Bengaluru positions itself as India’s tech capital, it continues to ...

will help kick off Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May. In it, the director and producer duo of Abhishek Bhatnagar and Abhishek Isaac highlight ‘‘life in the slums during 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 ...