THE general pattern of the development of slums is almost always the same. They begin with the overcrowding of existing buildings and the addition of tenants built by conscienceless speculators to ...

The residents of the Karnani Estate terrace are living in a slum which they realise but do not want to accept... Calcutta's iconic multistorey building — the Karnani Estate — is opposite the prominent ...

(Before pacification, some tourists visited the slum in organized “favela tours ... a group of different gunmen is taking care of this place.” Rodrigo said that the main consequence ...

A truck carrying cooking gas cylinders caught fire and exploded in Dharavi, Mumbai's largest slum, but no injuries were ...

Instead of maakan [house] there is a threat of being uprooted from the place where we have lived all our lives,” rued Teju Pandit, a resident of a slum located next to a railway track in Old Delhi.