That’s not to say that this film, directed by Maren R. Monsen and Nicole Newnham, is irrepressibly rosy. It spends three years tracking four children, and the stories don’t all end happily. Of course, ...

She had done so in her home in the "bustees" -- the dense Calcutta slums -- while Rosalie Giffoniello and I sat on two plastic chairs, the only chairs in the room. The room was no more than eight feet ...

BRATTLEBORO -- In 2002, Marlboro College student Noah Levinson traveled to India "with a single suitcase, a little spending money and $30,000 to start a program to help save the lives of children and ...

Kolkata: The slums of Kolkata are all set for a facelift. According to Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) officers, a major programme has been drawn up for all the slums. There are around 3,334 slums ...

Amlan Ganguly is a visionary. This lawyer-turned-community activist is not only changing a neighborhood, but also changing the way its youngest residents envision their lives. In this character-driven ...

Residents of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) have criticised a sequence in The Avengers that features the city's slums. In the film, The Hulk's alter ego Dr. Bruce Banner, played by Mark Ruffalo, is seen ...