Editor’s Note: Moni Basu, a reporter for CNN.com, was born in Kolkata, India and returns there every year. On a recent trip home to India, I heard a German man on my flight remark to another passenger ...

Sauntering through the busy streets filled with beautiful pottery, fine leather, exquisite puppetry, and sparkling sarees, I came across a man sitting by the side of the road. Noticing I was by myself ...

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal carried quite a story. The story discussed the slum tour business -- that's right slum tours -- where the wealthy travel to impoverished communities around the world to ...

Among travel fads such as food-centric vacations and eco-tourism, one new trend stands out for its blatant disregard and lack of respect for local residents. Slum travel, or “poorism,” is an alarming ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

There's a scene in "Slumdog Millionaire" when a group of American tourists ask to visit the "real India." They drive up to a slum in a Mercedes and take a walking tour -- only to find their tires ...

ANGELA Saurine explores India's largest slum - Dharavi in Mumbai - on Hindu New Year. There's no school today as it's a public holiday and bright-eyed children excitedly cry "Happy Diwali!" and shake ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover startups & enterprises in India and the UAE. As roughly half a million tourists poured into Rio for the Summer Olympics, ...