A Festival of Lights Brings Beauty to India's Urban Slums. ... Riding inside one of the densely packed train cars along Kolkata's Suburban Railway Network, ... says Indian photographer Arko Datto.

Kolkata, a city of 14 million people and 3,500 unregistered slums, suffers from grinding poverty. As many as 250,000 children roam the sprawling Indian city's streets and slums, many of which lack ...

The Revolutionary Optimists Filmmakers on Finding Hope in Kolkata’s Slums June 13, 2013 by Independent Lens in Uncategorized Amlan Ganguly is a visionary.

"Being a photographer who is in love with the city, I was unhappy with the way that Kolkata was being portrayed in a cliched way, as a dark place full of slums. That wasn't the city that I was ...

In October 2023, Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee – also known for a tendency to rename – decided to replace the word bustee that is slums with the Bengali word Uttaran (uplift). While the ...

Photography has inspired Anjan Ghosh to step out of his circle and build connections with people — from the tribal communities of Kheyadaha to the slum-dwellers of Topsia. Two years ago, Ghosh visited ...

On a recent trip home to India, I heard a German man on my flight remark to another passenger that he’d taken his son on a tour of a Kolkata slum.