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...thing he most wants from a lender when he sends in an application for a loan modification - asking for something like a reduced interest rate that could help keep a family in its home - is simple. "I just want to know someone is looking at it," he says. Often, that hasn't been the case. Banks simply don't call back...
...prided himself on creations as fragmented as he believed society to be. His pieces--performed worldwide and with the company he founded in 1953--often divided the stage into autonomous zones of activity. His dedication to abstraction became his trademark; Mikhail Baryshnikov once described the way Cunningham dancers cover space as a "kind of organized chaos...
...joint-family home,” often comprising three generations’ worth of fathers, sons, brothers, male cousins, and respective wives and families, is now a fading heirloom of India, as speculative real estate investments and construction booms have led more and more families to forgo this ages-old tradition of living together, called “saath-saath” in Hindi. Likewise, the family business is no longer the only source of livelihood for sons, since alternative opportunities abound. But some attribute even this modern move away from the “family as necessitated for economic...
...lessons to be learned from” antitheses to the idealized Indian family, they are not just mere aberrations. Bollywood and elders now romanticize a time of close-knit familial relations that seems impossibly forced, even for the olden times. The realities of family rifts are often rewritten in golden age retellings of the joint-family collective memory, or dismissed as the result of wayward relatives and brash younger generations. Surely Dhirubhai Ambani may be rolling over in his grave, but today’s evidence for familial breakdown is rooted in themes of family disputes that are as timeless...
...Police, released last week, Human Rights Watch has highlighted a range of corrupt practices by Indian police, including accepting bribes, arbitrarily arresting, detaining and torturing people, and carrying out extrajudicial killings. Indian police, it says, operate outside the law, lack requisite ethical and professional standards, and are overstretched and often outmatched by criminal elements. "India is modernizing rapidly, but the police continue to use their old methods - abuse and threats," says Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, in a statement released by the New York City-based NGO. (Read "Rights Groups Probe India's Shoot-Out Cops...