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In Famous Mumbai Slum, Redevelopment Plans Stir Controversy

Hundreds of thousands of Indian citizens are upset with the government's plans to level Mumbai's Dharavi Slum, the now-famous setting for the film "Slumdog Millionaire", to make way for commercial buildings and luxury housing. Simon Marks reports from Mumbai.

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Study Finds Honor Killings a Major Portion of Pakistan's Homicides

By PBS News Hour

One in every five homicides in Pakistan is a so-called "honor killing," according to a new epidemiological study published in the European Journal of Public Health.

Weekly Poem: 'Weebles wobble but they don't fall down'

Bob Hicok is the author of five collections of poems, including "This Clumsy Living" (2007), which won the 2008 Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress.

Conversation: Filmmaker Ramin Bahrani

By Arts Desk

"Goodbye Solo" is the third film by 34-year-old director Ramin Bahrani. It film won the Critic's Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2008, and is just beginning to be seen in selected theaters around the country.

Iowa Court Decision Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

By PBS News Hour

Iowa became the first non-coastal state and the third nationwide to legalize gay marriage Friday when the state Supreme Court unanimously found that the state's same-sex marriage ban violates the constitutional rights of gay and lesbian couples.

Conversation: Jonathan Lethem & L.J. Davis Ponder 'A Meaningful Life'

L.J. Davis' 1971 novel, "A Meaningful Life," re-published with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem, is a black humor romp into the bowels of life's greatest disappointments.

Poems Spring Up Everywhere

On this first day of April when you're playing practical jokes on your friends or family, do it poetically. Even better, celebrate the beginning of National Poetry Month instead.

William Kentridge at SFMOMA

In the catalog for "William Kentridge: Five Themes," a major survey now showing at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the artist writes: "[B]efore the work can begin (the visible finished work of the drawing, film or sculpture), a…

Weekly Poem: 'Evening Walk'

Charles Simic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1938 and moved to the United States in 1954. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2007-2008.