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tram in Kolkata with dancers

India’s tramway turned 150. But it’s on its last legs.

Infrastructure

​​​​​​​Kolkata’s 150-year-old tram system is limping along. It’s down to just two lines and there is little political will, or room in the city’s crowded streets, to bring the streetcars back to their former glory days. The tram does have a small but loyal band of supporters who want to keep it alive.

A row of multi-colored woolen skirts

For these Latvian Americans, summer is for learning about their roots

Community
Angkor Wat is shown by a pond at sunrise.

‘World Heritage’ site selection is Eurocentric – and that shapes which historic places get love and money

Arts, Culture & Media

Joyce Carol Oates

Arts, Culture & Media
Photographer shoots family across green field

A small-town Mexican photographer brings big-time nostalgia with him to Detroit

Culture
A big screen above a high school graduation ceremony in a stadium

Most high schoolers worry about graduation. These students are also being challenged to save their culture

Culture

As the Marshall Islands face the threat of rising sea levels, some 2,000 Marshallese American students in Arkansas are feeling a different kind of pressure.