CALCUTTA — When Shell Oil announced plans to build an ethylene cracker plant just 11 miles from Columbiana County, Bert Dawson and his staff at the county engineer’s office started making plans, too.

House by house, lane by lane, Calcutta emerges not as an abstraction but as a sequential urban journal. A name vanishes from Cossaitollah Gully one year and reappears on Chowringhee Road the next year ...

Born into Brothels, a new film documentary, tells the story of children growing up in poverty in Calcutta's red-light district who find hope in a newfound skill -- photography. NPR's Melissa Block ...

Hyderabad: George Bernard Shaw had confessed – “There is no love sincerer than the love for food.” Staying true to the quote, Bengalis have always been known for arguably two things - their love for ...

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 ...