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Sunday Reading
A feast of stories
7 Feb 2021 12:00 PM GMT
UP CLOSE - Indrani Raimedhi, [email protected] JIBAN GOSWAMI has come up with an English translation of Saurav Kumar Chaliha’s short stories. Saurav Kumar Chaliha is the nom de plume of Surendra Nath Medhi, a reclusive genius and one of the most brilliant short-story writers of Assam....
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California is named after a griffin-riding Black warrior queen
5 Feb 2021 12:00 PM GMT
THE ODD WORLD California has long been associated with fantasy, but few people know that centuries before Hollywood, it drew its very name from an imaginary kingdom – one ruled by a Black queen. Around 1530, when Hernán Cortés’s conquistadors, amid shipwrecks, mutinies, and the destruction of the...
Horizon
Dichotomy of sci-fi
5 Feb 2021 12:00 PM GMT
Sanam Deka Science fiction is difficult to define. Experts of this genre take it as an object of study in order to understand its relationship with science, technology, politics, and culture at large. Its studies were started as a discipline with the publication of academic journals like...
Horizon
Demystifying fat loss
5 Feb 2021 12:00 PM GMT
Angshuman Dutta Fat loss is that elusive goal, almost like a mirage, that many of us keep on chasing for most part of our lives without actually being able to get a hold of. And, the reason it always remains a topic of hot discussion is because of our gullibility to fall prey to easy fixes. We want...
Horizon
Birds of a feather
5 Feb 2021 12:00 PM GMT
Connect with Nature via bird-watching – you will be amazed to know how many beautiful birds surround you, writes Manjusa Choudhury We have always been amazed by creatures that can fly. Mythical creatures like Jatayu, Garuda, Phoenix, etc., are described as giant birds bestowed with amazing powers....
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The origin of AIDS
5 Feb 2021 12:00 PM GMT
SCIENCE ZONE AIDS has claimed more than 33 million lives and its causative agent, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), has thus far proved impossible to find a vaccine for. Professor Dr Jacques Pepin, an epidemiologist at Université de Sherbrooke in Canada, has been trying to discover the origin...
Horizon
Going green
5 Feb 2021 12:00 PM GMT
Amlan Shekhar Baruah Although food is a basic necessity of life, but unfortunately, most of us are not conscious about what we eat. We keep on running after medicines and treatments whenever we fall ill, but we don’t care about the fact that it is what we eat that determines our health. We are what...
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Tribhanga
5 Feb 2021 12:00 PM GMT
CINEMASCOPE Sanjoy Ray Director: Renuka Shahane Cast: Kajol, Mithila Palker, Tanvi Azmi, etc. In Tribhanga, actor-turned director Renuka Shahane tries to draw an unerring picture of women from three generations and their tryst with societal prejudices at different stages of their lives, not to speak...
Horizon
A trip around Assam
5 Feb 2021 12:00 PM GMT
TRAVEL Hurjyudoy Borah Winter is here and the weather has been very pleasant. Kobo (my dog) and I planned to travel to some of the well-known places of Assam. The places on our bucket list were the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, Tezpur, the Kaziranga National Park, Jorhat, and Sivasagar. Our first...
Planet Young
Cartoons and comics
4 Feb 2021 12:00 PM GMT
This form of art has evolved tremendously over the decades The word “cartoon” once meant something entirely different from what it does today. It was used to describe a sketch made by an artist to prepare for a painting or other work. In the 1840s, the English magazine Punch published cartoons that...
Planet Young
Shoulder to lean on
4 Feb 2021 12:00 PM GMT
Peer confidants at school may help teens with anxiety, depression. Teen challenges, including depression and anxiety, are better understood by their peers, as compared to teachers or counsellors in the school, believe three-quarters of parents in a new poll. The majority also agree that peer support...
Planet Young
Vadodara teen wins Science award
4 Feb 2021 12:00 PM GMT
Fifteen-year-old Varun Saikia from Vadodara – who had built a machine that floats on water and clears up waste from the floor, won the Outstanding Achievement Award within the Initiative for Research and Innovation in the STEM (IRIS) National Fair 2021. Varun has won the award funded by the...
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