Calcutta’s Villages and Chennai’s Slums. The India Vitamin Express Wraps Up with Rural and Urban Stops on the Subcontinent's East Coast. By Indy Staff Tue Mar 04, ... February 28. Known as India’s ...

India's economic boom has reached Calcutta, a city better known for crushing poverty. The city wants to ban hand-pulled rickshaws, calling them medieval and inhumane. Officials promise to provide ...

India suffered the biggest Moslem-Hindu riot in its history. Moslem League Boss Mohamed Ali Jinnah had picked the 18th day of Ramadan for "Direct Action Day" against Britain's plan ...

Educator Ananthi Jebasingh received the Colson Center’s Wilberforce Award, recognizing the impact she has made over the decades teaching children in India's slums through her Good Samaritan School.

Four main requirements of Christian missions in the midst of India’s hopes, appeals, and yearningsIn the back slums of Calcutta, a school dropout who was learning to work as a shoemaker for ...

On Aug. 17, 1948, she dressed for the first time in her white-and-blue-bordered saree, left the Loreto convent, and entered into the slums of India. Mother Teresa and John Paul II, May 25, 1983 ...

After years of battling debilitating ailments, Mother Teresa’s heart stopped at 9:30 p.m. (noon New York time) while surrounded by grieving nuns of her order at her convent in Calcutta, India ...

Rani Begum lost her faith somewhere in the wretched slums sandwiched between fetid sewage canals on the eastern outskirts of Calcutta. Despite her poverty, Begum obeyed the constant reminders by ...