Profiles
Secret Garden
One Muslim family has lived and worked in the Ferikoy Protestant Cemetery, a walled-off graveyard near Istanbul’s answer to Fifth Avenue, for going on half a century.
A Way to Return
With metallic gold and silver thread, Zahir’s father knitted designs into velvet cloth, a traditional Indian and Pakistani technique called zardosi. Zahir watched his father create, marveled at his concentration. The old man made a point of teaching the young Zahir the craft. But with Afghanistan in turmoil, a more pressing lesson loomed. The old man needed to teach Zahir how to flee.
Magic Mountain
When the Indian conservationist Vijay Kumar lost his job, he went for a walk in the woods of South India’s Palani Hills. He needed to figure out what to do with his life. The answer, it turned out, was right beneath his feet.
Moving Picture
In the summer of 2010 filmmaker Andrew Hongo traveled from New York to Cambodia to make a documentary about street kids in the resort town of Siem Reap. In the process he befriended a remarkable young man, whose story stayed with Hongo long after the film’s final frame.
Palm of Their Hand
How a rogue band of actors, musicians, and artists are shaking up the nightlife in an innocuous Sarajevo neighborhood using that most casual of art forms, cabaret.
The Wave Riders of Kovalam
India’s Lighthouse Beach is home to a small ragtag band of unschooled yet dogged surfers. The tropical climate, large and consistent breakers, relative isolation, and white sand beaches compare favorably to other popular surfing destinations the world over. Jay Sutherland saw potential.
