Syed Siraj

Jul 24, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |R. Ramachandran |Syed Siraj |Milind Brahme

The allegations of large-scale paper leaks and the surfacing of serious irregularities in the NEET examination, in which 67 students have scored a perfect 720/720 this year, exposes the loopholes in an ill-conceived, hastily introduced and haphazardly implemented system (Cover Story, July 26). It is unfortunate that a dozen examinations had to be brought under the purview of a single centralised testing agency in order to achieve the ambition of “one nation, one examination”.

Jul 24, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | R. Ramachandran |Vaishna Roy |Syed Siraj |Milind Brahme

Hubble data reveals intermediate-mass black hole in Milky WayA NEW study, led by Maximilian Häberle of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany, has found evidence of what astronomers had been suspecting for some time: Omega Centauri, a cluster in the Milky Way of about 10 million stars and about 18,000 light years from the earth, may contain a central black hole.

Jul 24, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Deepa Reddy |Vaishna Roy |R. Ramachandran |Syed Siraj

Every few years since 2013, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in New Delhi has put out a glossy volume of short essays and recipes, building what has become the First Food series of biodiversity-focussed guides to cooking and eating.

Jul 24, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Divya Gandhi |Vaishna Roy |R. Ramachandran |Syed Siraj

Four Seasons in JapanNick BradleyPenguinRs.550Flo is sick of Tokyo, her job as a translator, her stagnating relationship. Then she chances upon a mysterious novel left behind by a passenger on the Tokyo subway, and her life is transformed for the better as she takes it upon herself to translate it. ___The Rainbow RunnersDhrubajyoti BorahThornbird BooksRs.695Set in the days of the Assam insurgency, this novel is about Sriman, a young man whose life is upended by the violence.

Jul 23, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Syed Siraj |Partha P. Majumder |Ayesha Minhaz |Divya Gandhi

A small market had sprung up where the asphalt highway turned to the left. The village stood behind it, hidden from view by a dense bamboo grove. The village had no electricity, but the market did. There were three tea-shops, two for sweetmeats, three for garments, one stationery store and two groceries. There was a godown, too, and a husking machine, besides a brick kiln at the back. People came from nearby villages.