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The number of UCAS applications in 2021 for all the subjects grouped together under the banner architecture, building and planning has risen to 46,980.
Bene Israel women perform kirtans at AJDC program in Mumbai, 2016 (Surabhi Sharma)
This year, COVID-19 competes with Haman as the villain of the Jewish holiday of Purim for India’s Bene Israel “
kirtankars.” The kirtankars, a group of elderly women from the Mumbai Jewish community who sing
kirtan, or traditional devotional songs, had planned to perform a kirtan about Queen Esther in the synagogue for the holiday. But with places of worship mostly closed due to the pandemic, the women’s performance has been canceled.
Kirtans are traditional storytelling songs inspired by Hindu devotional music. The ones sung by the Bene Israel are in the local Marathi language and include Hebrew words. They extol great figures of the Hebrew Bible, such as Joseph, Moses, David and Elijah. The one the women had hoped to perform this week is called “Esther Ranichi Katha” or the tale of Queen Esther who saved the Jews.
Winners of the 2020 RIBA President s Medal for Research and Research Awards
By Alexander Walter|
Friday, Jan 22, 2021
Surface details of probiotic tile showing the textural, porous surface of the probiotic zone. All images courtesy of RIBA.
RIBA this week revealed the winners of the President s Awards for Research, a program established in 2006 to reward and encourage research in the fields of architecture and the built environment.
From the award winners in the four categories Climate Change, Cities and Community, Design and Technical, and History and Theory, the jury selected the work Probiotic Design by Richard Beckett from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London as the recipient of the 2020 RIBA President s Medal for Research.