Children from Pilkhana, a slum in Howrah, West Bengal, India. It is the slum about which French writer Dominique Lapierre's bestselling book City of Joy was written. Pilkhana has at least tens of thousands of residents. It is not far from Howrah Station
A man smokes in front of a wall stamped with the communist logo. Politics in West Bengal is dominated by the following major political parties: the Trinamool Congress, the Indian National Congress, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
