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  1. Jazz

    For 1,275 Sundays in a row, Marjorie Eliot has flung open the doors to her cosy Washington Heights apartment and hosted a free jazz concert in tribute to her sons. Beginning mid-afternoon, musicians from around the world strum, croon and drift fingers over piano keys, bathed by the glow of…

  2. South Williamsburg

    We huddle next to Otha’s coffee shop to meet a cheery Hudson Valleyite with defiant long, brown hair. A thirty-something mum who was the fifth child of 15, she joined the outside world in 2010 after being pushed into marriage in her teens For the last four years, former insurance…

  3. Sahyadri

    Our rickety minibus rattled over dusty, potholed tracks as the sun rose above Goa. With bleary eyes and squashed knees, we snaked away from the coast for two hours until we arrived at Sahyadri Spice Plantation. The farm, situated at the foot of a mountain range by the same name…

  4. Locked up: Women behind bars

    Her name in English means ‘hope’—ironic and perhaps understandable, then, that her eyes betray her as lacking in her namesake Nestled between high-rise apartments and post-apocalyptic rock formations sits a settlement inhabited solely by women. This is ‘La Cárcel de Mujeres, a low-security prison for Bolivia’s female…

  5. Los Lustrabotas de La Paz

    The shoeshiners of La Paz I meet my tour guide on El Prado, the busiest street in Bolivia’s administrative capital, La Paz, as the city yawns and stretches into consciousness. A small girl, hidden behind a shock of black hair, introduces herself as we navigate the early-morning rush. “I didn’t…

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