The Sanjaynagar Redevelopment Project engaged residents in solving their own housing crisis.

It's a bold new experiment and it's already won a prize. Residents in a jam-packed slum, many of them living in one-room tin shacks, help design their apartments in a brand new building.

Largest slums in India explained with key facts, population, and living conditions. From Dharavi in Mumbai to Basanti in Kolkata, here's a simple look at India's biggest informal settlements.

I'm in Ahmedabad, India, standing where families once built their homes under the shade of large trees. Today, those houses are a flattened dust bowl at the edge of a construction site. Apartment ...

BHUBANESWAR/MUMBAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Once known as Temple City for its ancient Hindu temples, Bhubaneswar in the eastern Indian state of Odisha aims to reposition itself as a hub ...

Before they were provided with white paint, women in Badi Bhil Basti used to dampen the curtains inside to try and keep cool (Credit: Mitul Kajaria) Extreme heat is having a detrimental impact on ...

Residents of an informal settlement in India’s Ahmedabad city work on painting their home with sun-reflective white paint. (Photo courtesy Mahila Housing Trust) This is your first of three free ...

Hazeena looked pale and hungry when she came to a kindergarten managed by Catholic nuns in a southern Indian state. A few months earlier, the 7-year-old girl was seen helping her parents in the ...

MUMBAI (Reuters Life!) - Trading their Blackberries for scrubbing brushes and their mansions for huts, a group of wealthy youth are gluing Indians to their TV screens in a country struggling to bridge ...

The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. “We were so frightened,” said 56-year-old ...

will help kick off Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May. In it, the director and producer duo of Abhishek Bhatnagar and Abhishek Isaac highlight ‘‘life in the slums during a ...