Word: cosmopolitanization
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...very private affair, it's now on display all over the movies and soap operas, magazines and newspapers, and between young couples canoodling in parks. At this time of year, wedding season and the lead up to Valentine's Day - a Western tradition increasingly popular in India's more cosmopolitan cities - it's even more noticeable...
...world. Now, the rickshaw's long, bumpy road is at a dead end. Calcutta, the last major metropolis with a traditional rickshaw fleet still in operation, will ban them following a state law passed last week declaring the vehicles "inhumane." Here are some other stops in the rickshaw's cosmopolitan, yet controversial, career...
...lots—the windshields of the cars oddly mirroring the glass-paneled jewel-box of a museum. Plans are afoot for a massive waterfront redevelopment, including offices, residences and hotels.Much more interesting, and important, is Boston’s cultural development. What has always been a sophisticated and cosmopolitan city is now poised to fully embrace the contemporary.—Staff Writer Alexander B. Fabry can be reached at fabry@fas.harvard.edu
...sold at Harrods in London and Barneys New York, says the thing one always has to keep in mind about Istanbul is that for everything you think you've learned, you'll find the opposite to be true. "It's about the dichotomy of contrast, old and new, cosmopolitan and yet so ancient. I remember as a boy getting lost in the bazaar and then stumbling into a McDonald...
...cosmopolitan party includes a wide range of international guests, among whom at least a dozen languages are spoken. But rather than being a source of chaos, this polyphony is what makes the story so beautiful: friendships and romances are established between guests who do not speak a common language. Guests and terrorists alike begin by relying heavily on a translator, but relationships soon blossom and transcend language altogether...