The mythology of the struggling artist is everywhere, but sometimes it is startlingly real; here are some musical prodigies from Indian slums who defied all odds ...

It’s not good for printing,” this photo that Gary Mark Smith took of a few boys on the streets of Tangier, Morocco. It’s not ...

Steven Knight's Peaky Blinders puts a fictional spin on some very real events. The Peaky Blinders were an actual street gang that operated in Birmingham, England in the late 19th and early 20th ...

According to the national Census held in 2011 in India, metropolitan Kolkata is home to over 14 million people.

Discover how Rouble Nagi transforms slums into vibrant classrooms, blending art and education to empower underprivileged ...

An oasis of peace and serenity in this noisy, sprawling metropolis of over eight million in southern India, Ashirvad (meaning blessing in the local language) is a Jesuit centre where Fr. Arun Luis and ...

Yet even though overpopulation is an issue as dated as Dacron pants or disco, Ehrlich helped give an imprimatur of scholarly authority to a new kind of politics—a politics of scarcity—that has proved ...

Nevertheless, the politics of scarcity has persisted. Much of what makes Trumpism distinct from previous Republican presidents’ ideologies—above all, its insistence that immigration is per se ...

Housing and Settlement Areas Minister Maruarar Sirait has called for a more integrated approach to handling slum areas, emphasizing that physical improvements ...

Ken Follett’s next historical epic is a story of forbidden romance set during a time of official propriety, the Victorian age ...

Residents and activists in the Lagos waterfront community of Makoko are raising fresh concerns over displacement and land ...

There's a particular kind of travel brochure that doesn't look like a travel brochure. It shows up as a voluntourism website, ...