Urmi's work in Kolkata has inspired women throughout India and around the world to be powerful forces for change.
Oleander Girl is a coming of age novel in the best tradition, with a heroine who is both infuriating and endearing, and most importantly, brave.
Salma Begum and Salena Begum are clear about one thing: they want prostitution abolished in India. The two women, who are not related, were forced into prostitution as adolescents. Now in their mid-30s, they are trying to get out.
Kolkata was a crowded and rainy city, but definitely felt like the cultural and literary center of India.
Though sex workers weren't even permitted to participate, they managed to take a stand at the International AIDS Conference. World leaders, politi...
The alpha moustache belonged to the ringleader of the twisted display of flesh, denim and synthesizer onstage.
Hillary and her team had planned to engage Mamta Banerjee for extracting concessions for U.S. investment. Instead, Hillary simply turned her trip into a charm offensive.
"The Avengers" has exceeded all expectations and shattered box office records, but not everyone is pleased with the film. Some Bollywood actors and ot...
This past December, I returned to Kolkata for the first time since 2004, this time with my husband, Kiran. Here is our story -- Kiran's photographs, my words -- of poverty, inspirational people, and, ultimately, hope.
Nearly 90 people were killed when a fire engulfed patients at a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, with officials accusing senior staff o...
BIHAR. India's sub-standard state museum infrastructure is set to be enhanced by plans for a new museum in Bihar, east India, scheduled to open in 201...
The Indian city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) has hatched an odd, but perhaps ingenious, new plan to curb traffic, one that has the added benefit of incorporating poetry into the daily lives of the city's commuters.
India's poverty is no more visible in Kolkata than any other major city, though still it maintains this damning reputation in certain quarters through media, myth, and rumor.
Five months ago, on a seemingly innocuous Friday afternoon, Ajay and Sheena's youngest son hanged himself in the terrace room of his Kolkata home. Rou...
Police in eastern India have arrested three men in a suspected case of human sacrifice, including two former colleagues of the victim, who was found b...
All parts of India have given birth to a prime minister, except the eastern. Subhash Chandra Bose and Jyoti Basu, both sons of the East, came close to...
