Kolkata, India (CNN ... Like other middle-class Indians, I grew up knowing little about poor people's lives. We moved in separate worlds, which, in my mind, only grew further apart as India ...

This story appears in the April 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. The strategy of drivers in Kolkata—drivers of private cars and taxis and buses and the enclosed three-wheel scooters ...

Three labourers died in a tragic manhole accident at Kolkata Leather Complex, sparking a probe and compensation discussions.

“People were putting up with power cuts ... a lack of investment in Kolkata’s segregated, poor neighborhoods leaves them highly vulnerable to the city’s expected climate catastrophes ...