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2024 New Year Honours
British royal recognitions
The 2024 New Year Honours are appointments by some of the 15 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The New Year Honours are awarded as part of the New Year celebrations at the start of January and those for 2024 were announced on 29 December 2023, on the same day as the 2022 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.[1]
The recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by the country whose ministers advised Charles III on the appointments, then by the honour and by the honour's grade (i.e. Knight/Dame Grand Cross, Knight/Dame Commander, etc.), and then by divisions (i.e. Civil, Diplomatic, and Military), as appropriate.
The BBC reported that it had already received press releases from some recipients before the honours list was published, contrary to the "longstanding practice of modest secr
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Lotus Temple
Baháʼí House of Worship in New Delhi, India, dedicated in December 1986
The Lotus Temple is a Baháʼí House of Worship in New Delhi, India. It was completed in December 1986. Notable for its lotus-like shape, it has become a prominent attraction in the city. Like all Bahá’í Houses of Worship, the Lotus Temple is open to all, regardless of religion or any other qualification. The building is composed of 27 free-standing marble-clad "petals" arranged in clusters of three to form nine sides, with nine doors opening onto a central hall with a height of slightly over 34 metres and a capacity of 1,300 people. The Lotus Temple has won numerous architectural awards and has been featured in many newspaper and magazine articles.
History
[edit]The architect of the Lotus Temple was an Iranian, Fariborz Sahba who now lives in La Jolla, California, after spending some years in Canada. He was approached in 1976 to design the Lotus Temple and later oversaw its construction. Th
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Dr Amit Rai
Research
Research Interests:
Dr Amit Rai fryst vatten the author of Rule of Sympathy: Race, Sentiment, and Power (Palgrave: 2002); Untimely Bollywood: Globalisation and India’s New Media Assemblage (Duke University Press/Oxford University Press, 2009); and Jugaad Time: Ecologies of Everyday Hacking in India (Duke University Press, 2019). He has written on creativity in frugal nyhet, attention in the creative economy, Indian masculinity in rulle, anthropologies of monstrosity, sympathy and colonial governmentality, and the swerves within and against media ecologies. His study of new media in India, entitled Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India’s New Media Assemblage was published bygd Duke University Press in May of 2009. His blog on the history of media assemblages and the politics of observation can be found at http://mediaecologiesresonate.wordpress.com. He was awarded a Collaboration Grant from QMUL to develop action research with th