They come from India’s teeming, infamous slums. High-rise residential buildings are seen behind a cluster of houses at a slum in Mumbai May 6, 2014. DANISH SIDDIQUI / Reuters.

About 65 million people live in India's slums, according to census data, which activists say is a low estimate. Nearly half the country's population is forecast to live in its cities by 2025, ...

India, advocate for the global poor, clears slums as G20 draw near By Rhea Mogul , Vedika Sud and Sania Farooqui , CNN 7 minute read ...

Educator Ananthi Jebasingh received the Colson Center s Wilberforce Award, recognizing the impact she has made over the ...

As India strides toward modernization and globalization, it is leaving behind millions of people living in slums for whom the promise of development has no meaning.

When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch of land where he set up shop was “just a creek with no proper road and garbage all around,” he said.

In the Vanzara Vas slum located in the city’s Narol area, where more than 2,000 dwellings exist, mostly airless, one-room homes residents say the white roofs are already making a difference.

On a hot summer afternoon, 23-year old Nizamudin Abdul Rahim Khan is playing cricket on a muddy, unpaved road in the Rafiq Nagar slum in India's financial capital, Mumbai. Here, there is scant ...

The Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ in Bengaluru, India, ... as they come from the same Bellahalli slum on the outskirts of Bengaluru. While a normal kindergarten handles only 3-year-olds, ...