As Mumbai demolishes slums from Garib Nagar to Goregaon, an old debate has returned. Did Sunil Dutt protect the poor, or help ...
The Adani Group is undertaking Asia's largest urban redevelopment project in Mumbai's Dharavi, constructing 125,000 homes to ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Rina Chandran CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A commercial painter by trade, K. Raja dreamed of setting up his ...
Just another day in Nairobi’s Kibera slums. Slums are characterised by densely packed settlements with inadequate provision of services. Reuters/Noor Khamis We live in an urban century. Already more ...
A visitor strolling down Arroyo, a street in Retiro, one of the poshest neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires, can buy a bag of coffee beans for $22 and order a kale pesto salad at a hip restaurant. But a ...
Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos. Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard puppet animals along ...
AROUND 6am, the squealing of copulating rats—signalling a night-long verminous orgy on the rooftops of Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai—gives way to the more cheerful sound of chirruping sparrows. Through a ...
“The idea for a Slum Village reunion album came from a conversation I had with J Dilla before he passed away,” says T3, the last living member of the beloved Detroit rap group. Released this week, ...