Dharavi, in central Mumbai, is considered one of the largest slums in Asia, but deep within this neighborhood, below the ...

She lives in a slum in the shadow of Quest. She is part of a faceless, often-cited statistic: About 60% of India's nearly 1.3 billion people live on less than $3.10 a day, the World Bank's median ...

Mumbai: Bombay High Court has dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by former Mumbai MP Gopal Shetty who wanted mezzanine floors of slum hutments to be treated as separate units ...

The Indian Express crisscrossed this high-profile block of 1.09 lakh voters in the heart of Delhi, where slum clusters jostle ...

It soon took off as the tendrils of the tech boom made its way to India. By 2000, a 20-year-old Mitra had grown his company from its newspaper ad start in the slums to an IPO in India.

and even the most harmless-sounding term can subtly influence our attitudes towards the cities we live in and the problems they face. Let’s take an etymological tour around Asia and see what’s behind ...