Sauntering through the busy streets filled with beautiful pottery, fine leather, exquisite puppetry, and sparkling sarees, I came across a man sitting by the side of the road. Noticing I was by myself ...

Editor’s Note: Moni Basu, a reporter for CNN.com, was born in Kolkata, India and returns there every year. On a recent trip home to India, I heard a German man on my flight remark to another passenger ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Rio de Janeiro tour company could be in trouble for giving tourists too intimate a view of life in the city's notorious slums, including photo opportunities with drug gang ...

ANGELA Saurine explores India's largest slum - Dharavi in Mumbai - on Hindu New Year. There's no school today as it's a public holiday and bright-eyed children excitedly cry "Happy Diwali!" and shake ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover startups & enterprises in India and the UAE. As roughly half a million tourists poured into Rio for the Summer Olympics, ...

There's a scene in "Slumdog Millionaire" when a group of American tourists ask to visit the "real India." They drive up to a slum in a Mercedes and take a walking tour -- only to find their tires ...

The Brazilian city's tourism chief said today the company, Private Tours, could be stripped of its licence after a report in today's Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper that it had set up meetings between ...