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 ...

It was in the combined arenas of literature, culture, print, politics, petitions and associations in Calcutta in the late 1830s and early 1840s that a notion of “the people of India” as a ...