In Mumbai's Dharavi, poverty is being curated, priced and sold to dollar-rich visitors. Slum tourism has been around in India ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australian influencer Pete Z has been accused of "poverty tourism" after filming himself "surviving" in an Indian slum, as seen in ...

According to the national Census held in 2011 in India, metropolitan Kolkata is home to over 14 million people.

The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. “We were so frightened,” said 56-year-old ...

An oasis of peace and serenity in this noisy, sprawling metropolis of over eight million in southern India, Ashirvad (meaning blessing in the local language) is a Jesuit centre where Fr. Arun Luis and ...

NEW DELHI, May 17 (Reuters) - The number of people living in slums in India, Asia's fourth largest economy, has more than doubled in the past two decades, the government said on Thursday. Urban slum ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - The first sight for anyone flying into India's richest city is a sea of corrugated and tarpaulin-covered roofs beside a narrow, filth-choked river. Sign up here. It is an aerial ...

The mythology of the struggling artist is everywhere, but sometimes it is startlingly real; here are some musical prodigies from Indian slums who defied all odds ...

“What strikes me most is that India, the Indian state, is ashamed of ostensible poverty,” said Harsh Mander, a social activist who works with homeless families and street children. “It doesn’t want ...