Rising above the muck
The residents of an unauthorised colony in Delhi battle all odds for a cleaner life
Transforming a Karachi slum into a tidy suburb
The success of various programmes initiated under a pilot project in Orangi, a Karachi slum, has inspired its leader to predict the squatter …
Former slum now has its own newspaper
A determined group of youngsters in Shaheed Nagar who started a weekly newspaper find their objectives are slowly being realised.
JOHANNESBURG
Kolkata evicts ecological refugees
Seven hundred squatters occupying prime land rendered homeless; activists demanding their rehabilitation branded Maoists
Helping slum-dwellers to help themselves
Involving the community in slum improvement has worked successfully in the Philippines and Mexico. Hidebound bureaucrats in the Third World, who …
A requiem for the Bagmati
Darkling waters
The Bagmati loses its way in Kathmandu amid political vacuum and urban chaos
2010 World Cup revamp: squatters evicted from Jo'burg