Born into Brothels, a new film documentary, tells the story of children growing up in poverty in Calcutta's red-light district who find hope in a newfound skill -- photography. NPR's Melissa Block ...

The streets are deserted, traders are sitting idle, and tables are half empty at restaurants. The latest flare-up in ...

CALCUTTA — The Nirmal Hriday home is a place where more than 36,000 destitute have died in peace here in the last 50 years. Were it not for the Missionaries of Charity nuns and foreign volunteers who ...

From artillery salutes and ballroom dinners to Bow Barracks lights and Tangra feasts, a history of how Calcutta made ...

CALCUTTA -- Almost every night, when the workday ends and this crowded, crumbling city comes alive with evening shoppers, two boys push a battered metal cart through the streets, looking for a place ...

The funeral will be elaborate, but Mother Teresa's final resting place will be a simple room inside her Calcutta covenant. Her coffin will be placed in a simple tomb, sealed with slabs of white marble ...

Walk in the streets of Calcutta (now Kolkata) and you will barely find space to move. Walk in the streets of some cities in California and you will barely meet a soul on the road. Two completely ...

CALCUTTA -- The state's top politician calls it inhumane. Others call it a lingering symbol of colonial oppression. But Mukundlal Shah calls it an honest day's work. For half his life, Shah, a wiry 60 ...

CALCUTTA — The state’s top politician calls it inhumane. Others call it a lingering symbol of colonial oppression. Mukundlal Shah calls it an honest day’s work. For half his life, Shah, a wiry 60-year ...

The international merchants raised Calcutta from the mud of the Ganges; the British nurtured, shaped, and christened it. The “Black Hole,” site of some brutal treatment of British military hostages ...