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 lurched ahead as a global ...

One netizen called India "a rich country with poor people," and another wrote, "We are just a showoff nation.". A third user ...

Governments that have adopted pro-poor policies have been increasingly successful in India in recent years. Parties referred to as “populist” have competed to provide basic amenities to the poorer ...

“I don’t think most people in India want bike lanes. Our cities are too hot and dusty for that.” A fourth response blamed lack of civic discipline, with a tongue-in-cheek jab: “The biggest ...

For women coming from lower economic strata in India, a diagnosis can reveal faultlines ... Her new “family”—the people whose house she worked in—supported her in educating and taking ...

with more than 770 million people living in highly dangerous conditions at least two weeks a year. Because of its growing wealth and increasingly prosperous middle class, India will have the ...

Nearly three in four people in India couldn’t afford a healthy diet ... which provides for food handouts to the poor, makes it necessary to cover up to 75% of the rural population and up to ...

India were lucky to have got a point, he said. “We were very, very poor,” said the head coach ... to Bangladesh scoring from kick-off. Most people had not been able to get in when Mojibor ...

says a new World Bank report called Expanding Opportunities for the Urban Poor. East Asia and the Pacific is the world’s most rapidly urbanizing region, with an average annual urbanization rate of 3 ...

“I want to see many women, especially filmmakers from India, being able to work in international cinema. There are not many people who are seeking these opportunities and here I am, seeking them ...