cosmopolitanism

Out of Town

Bibek Debroy

Urban planning needs to go beyond megacities

The Foreigner’s Home

To what do we pay greatest allegiance? Family, language group, country, gender? Religion, race? And if none of these matter, are we urbane, cosmopolitan, or simply lonely?

Pallu, Pleat, Power

Sohini Chattopadhyay

On the sari as a message of competence, maturity, professionalism and a new cosmopolitanism

Its Cosmopolitanism is a Veneer

Hartosh Singh Bal

Dreams have a habit of dissolving under scrutiny. Which other city can boast of Bal Thackeray as its patron saint? Mumbai always succumbs to chauvinism, unfailingly. It’s its defining feature