Residents of an informal settlement in India’s Ahmedabad city work on painting their home with sun-reflective white paint Summer in India’s northwestern metropolis of Ahmedabad was never easy for ...

AHMEDABAD, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Ramilaben Arvind studied the plan to move out of her one-room home in a congested slum into a modern apartment for no extra cost in Ahmedabad, she ...

Hazeena looked pale and hungry when she came to a kindergarten managed by Catholic nuns in a southern Indian state. A few months earlier, the 7-year-old girl was seen helping her parents in the ...

To help ensure that environmental and health services are available in slums, Indian women are asserting their rights thanks to solidarity networks and non-confrontational approaches.

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Upgrading slums and giving tenancy rights to residents is key to climate change adaptation and disaster mitigation in India's cities, an analyst said, as the ...

Next to Mumbai's bustling international airport, a boy picks through refuse, looking for pieces he can recycle and sell to support his family of 11. He is a resident of Annawadi, a slum built on a ...

BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo (Random House) This book should come with a warning: Reading it may be hazardous to your rosy view that ...

Kolkata: “I have a lot of belief in this group of girls. They are the future of Indian women’s rugby!” These words of India’s rugby coach Kiano Fourie, during an online interaction with TOI, showed ...

When you close your eyes and think of India, what do you see? For far too many Western tourists, the image is unfairly limited to crowded trains, chaotic markets, slums, and the cliched “eat-pray-poop ...

Residents of an informal settlement in India’s Ahmedabad city work on painting their home with sun-reflective white paint. (Photo courtesy Mahila Housing Trust) This is your first of three free ...