Britain’s council estates were originally built as an ambitious solution to the overcrowded slums of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Early social housing projects offered working-class families ...

It’s not good for printing,” this photo that Gary Mark Smith took of a few boys on the streets of Tangier, Morocco. It’s not ...

Steven Knight's Peaky Blinders puts a fictional spin on some very real events. The Peaky Blinders were an actual street gang that operated in Birmingham, England in the late 19th and early 20th ...

Residents and activists in the Lagos waterfront community of Makoko are raising fresh concerns over displacement and land ...

Discover how Rouble Nagi transforms slums into vibrant classrooms, blending art and education to empower underprivileged ...

There is much to see and hear over at this year’s Thin Line Fest in Denton this Wed, Mar 18 thru Sun, Mar 22, but the main ...

Books & the Arts / A new book revisits the public housing programs of the 1930s. Joshua Freeman Today, Mary K. Simkhovitch is little remembered. But in the first half of the 20th century, her name was ...

Ken Follett’s next historical epic is a story of forbidden romance set during a time of official propriety, the Victorian age ...

The study also estimated that, in absolute terms, full coverage under the scheme would lift 1.23 crore people out of poverty, reduce the number of extreme poor by 56 lakh, and move 1.56 crore people ...

US Supreme Court bars discrimination suits by workers; Harold Wilson resigns; Iranian oil workers strike; Chiang Kai-shek stages military coup.

BY NAMITA DOGRA SUDAN* As the 98th Academy Awards take place tonight in Los Angeles, the conversation around India’s representation in global cinema is more relevant than ever. This year, all eyes ...

This column was written in 1971. It’s hard to believe that was fifty five years ago. Tempus fugit. Here it is. I knocked for a long time, and had begun to think that no one was at home. Finally I ...