That’s not to say that this film, directed by Maren R. Monsen and Nicole Newnham, is irrepressibly rosy. It spends three years tracking four children, and the stories don’t all end happily. Of course, ...

Amlan Ganguly is a visionary. This lawyer-turned-community activist is not only changing a neighborhood, but also changing the way its youngest residents envision their lives. In this character-driven ...

Some locals claimed that multiple LPG cylinders exploded, triggering the rapid movement of flames across the slum, a ...

Residents of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) have criticised a sequence in The Avengers that features the city's slums. In the film, The Hulk's alter ego Dr. Bruce Banner, played by Mark Ruffalo, is seen ...

A massive fire has broken out in Kolkata’s Newtown slum area, sending residents and firefighters into a desperate race against time. The blaze spread rapidly, prompting at least five fire tenders to ...