Global city

Nora is an associate professor of global studies at the University of San Francisco.

Nora was also a lead editor of a volume, Istanbul: Living with the Difference in a Global City.

But today we're gonna talk with Nora on her recent book, Contesting Pluralism/Pluralisms: Islam, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Turkey.

Welcome to the conversation, Nora.

even as construction nears completion, poor footpaths, broken roads, garbage accumulation and weak last-mile connectivity around several stations have raised it concerns among residents about how commuters will actually reach the new stations.

Gurugram Global City awaits buyers as Haryana plans another in Faridabad.

Haryana's flagship global city project in Gurugram, a 1,000-acre-plus township being developed by the Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation, HSIIDC, along the Dwarka Expressway, continues to struggle to draw the high developer and buyer interest the state government had envisaged, even as work on its first phase nears completion.

Even as this project awaits stronger uptake, the state is now looking to replicate the concept in Greater Faridabad, positioning the area as the National Capital Region's next global city hub, backed by fresh budgetary allocations and infrastructure commitments.

Modinagar overbridge delay leaves key Ghaziabad traffic link under strain.

a four-lane rail overbridge in Modinagar, Ghaziabad, has missed its planned completion deadline, prolonging congestion at a busy railway crossing used by commuters travelling between Ghaziabad, Hapur and Modinagar.

You already said it or asked it.

We love to call Baden-Baden the smallest city in the world, die kleinste Weltstadt, because actually Baden-Baden and the surrounding area only has 55,000 people, inhabitants, so it's very small.

But actually, it has so much to offer compared to so many different other cities.

I will come to that later.