Kolkata, India (CNN) — Not far from the place I once ... the World Bank's median poverty line. And 21%, or more than 250 million people, survive on less than $2 a day. Like other middle-class ...

But Kolkata, a city of more than 4.5 million in eastern India, is a microcosm of who will benefit from that protection and who won’t. A vast population will face risks of heat-related sickness ...

But I would argue that even more important than that was a poverty of aspiration ... "When I was born in the early 70s, Kolkata was the most important economic hub in India.

After the demise of Sultana's husband, Prince Mirza Bedar Bukht, in the 1980s, she has struggled to survive and support her ...

Literary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has praised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her efforts to reduce poverty and reaffirmed her commitment to India’s future. In a letter to ...