Residents of an informal settlement in India’s Ahmedabad city work on painting their home with sun-reflective white paint Summer in India’s northwestern metropolis of Ahmedabad was never easy for ...

"I'm very happy (with) myself that before I used to stay in a hut, but now I have (a) nice house for myself, and now I will take a very big house for my family on rent." “Now I'm in 10th standard. So, ...

GOPALPUR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Every year, Neelabeni and her family await the monsoon with trepidation in their mud-and-brick home in an informal settlement near the coast in the ...

BHUBANESWAR/MUMBAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Once known as Temple City for its ancient Hindu temples, Bhubaneswar in the eastern Indian state of Odisha aims to reposition itself as a hub ...

When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch of land where he set up shop was “just a creek with no proper road and garbage all around,” he said.

Residents of an informal settlement in India’s Ahmedabad city work on painting their home with sun-reflective white paint. (Photo courtesy Mahila Housing Trust) This is your first of three free ...