Maharashtra, spent her teenage years living in the slums of Mumbai with her husband's family. During this time, she suffered ...

but men and women bathe out in the open. I think of Katherine Boo's best-seller, "Beyond the Beautiful Forevers," an exquisitely detailed chronicle of life inside a Mumbai slum. What I took away ...

India’s first mobile bathroom for women was launched in Kandivali East by Minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha and MLA Atul ...

In a move towards improving hygiene and dignity for women in underserved communities, India’s first-ever mobile bathroom for ...

Roughly 13 years ago Chembur-based Sonalee Shyamsunder visited the Lal Dongar slum near her home and saw ... children in over 20 centres all over Mumbai (including places like Mumbra).

And yet Dharavi, a sprawling slum in the heart of Mumbai, India's financial and entertainment capital, appears to have brought an outbreak under control - for now. Since the first case was ...

Mumbai: Bombay high court observed that slum-dwellers "hold law-abiding citizens to ransom". Slums have grown "manifold" in the last 30 years, and the situation that prevailed in the city in 1993 ...

Tamil women cook special food to celebrate the harvest festival of Pongal at Dharavi, one of the Asia's largest slums, in ...