Riding inside one of the densely packed train cars along Kolkata's Suburban Railway Network, you can reach your hand out of the open doorways and literally touch the tenements built alongside ...

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 ...

A graphic designer by profession; a photographer by passion. Photography has inspired Anjan Ghosh to step out of his circle and build connections with people — from the tribal communities of Kheyadaha ...

A Kolkata story: A slum with hundreds of people on the terrace of a multistorey building The mass of shanties on the sixth floor of a landmark is no Tower of David, the skyscraper that Venezuela’s ...

We recently spoke with acclaimed filmmakers Nicole Newnham and Maren Grainger-Monsen about what led them to make The Revolutionary Optimists, how the film is already making an impact, and what ...

Kolkata: Massive fire engulfed several shanties on the wee hours of Sunday in Narkeldanga area in north Kolkata leaving one dead and few injured. According to local people, more than 60 out of 120 ...

Kolkata, Mar 27 (PTI) A fire broke out in a slum in south Kolkata's Dhakuria area on Wednesday, gutting a few shanties, officials said. The blaze, which broke out in the slum located along the ...

Kolkata: A fire broke out in a slum at Jessore Road in Kolkata on Saturday afternoon. Many shanties were destroyed. The visuals of the incident showed a thick plume of smoke billowing from the ...

"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.