India's economic boom has reached Calcutta, a city better known for crushing poverty. The city wants to ban hand-pulled rickshaws, calling them medieval and inhumane. Officials promise to provide ...

CALCUTTA -- The state's top politician calls it inhumane. Others call it a lingering symbol of colonial oppression. But Mukundlal Shah calls it an honest day's work. For half his life, Shah, a wiry 60 ...

CALCUTTA — Wiry and wrinkled from 40 years of pulling rickshaws through Calcutta’s clamorous streets, Ganesh Shaw fingers the round bell that serves as his horn, rolling it like a prayer bead as he ...

KOLKATA, India -- In a gloomy building off Ganguly Street, Mohammad Manawwar spends his days building the obsolete. Nearly half a century ago, his father and grandfather taught him how to hand-craft a ...

CALCUTTA -- Wiry and wrinkled from 40 years of pulling rickshaws through Calcutta's clamorous streets, Ganesh Shaw fingers the round bell that serves as his horn, rolling it like a prayer bead as he ...

The rickshaw puller was seen trying hard to control his tears. Together, they enjoyed their dinner and resumed their ride.

CALCUTTA — The state’s top politician calls it inhumane. Others call it a lingering symbol of colonial oppression. Mukundlal Shah calls it an honest day’s work. For half his life, Shah, a wiry 60-year ...

The international merchants raised Calcutta from the mud of the Ganges; the British nurtured, shaped, and christened it. The “Black Hole,” site of some brutal treatment of British military hostages ...

Not so long ago few cities in the world suffered a worse reputation than Calcutta. Its name conjured up visions of overcrowded slums, disease and of profound human misery that could only be relieved ...