Book Review: \u3ci\u3eVernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints: Selva J. Raj on “Being Catholic the Tamil Way”\u3c/i\u3e

Book review of Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints: Selva J. Raj on “Being Catholic the Tamil Way.” Edited by Reid B. Locklin. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2017, xvii + 290 pages

Book Review: \u3ci\u3eHindu-Christian Epistolary Self-Disclosures: ‘Malabarian Correspondence’ between German Pietist Missionaries and South Indian Hindus (1712-1714).\u3c/i\u3e

Book review of, Hindu-Christian Epistolary Self-Disclosures: ‘Malabarian Correspondence’ between German Pietist Missionaries and South Indian Hindus (1712-1714). by Daniel Jeyaraj and Richard Fox Young

Agency in the Subaltern Encounter of Evil: Subverting the Dominant and Appropriating the Indigenous

This essay focuses on subaltern encounter of evil that occurred in two different religious orbits, namely, Hinduism and Christianity in India. The Hindu phenomenon to be studied is Ayya Vaḻi1 (henceforth, AV) founded by Ayya Vaikundar (1809-1851) and the Christian phenomenon, Bible Mission (henceforth, BM) established by Devadas Ayyagaru (1840-1960). While attempts have been made earlier in the writings of Chad Bauman, Zoe Sherinian, Eleanor Zeliott, Sathianathan Clarke and G.Patick2 to study the relation between religion and subaltern agency in India, this work has a different focus in that it employs the idea of subaltern agency to discuss the parallel ways through which two nominally Hindu and Christian movements, originating from two different backgrounds and time periods, have developed a subaltern theodicy, borrowing from classical and local traditions, to offer a means for critiquing domination and overcoming marginalization

Book Review: \u3cem\u3eSacred Groves and Local Gods: Religion and Environmentalism in South India\u3c/em\u3e

Book Review of Sacred Groves and Local Gods: Religion and Environmentalism in South India. Eliza F.Kent. Oxford University Press, 2013. 236 pages

Severe reversible dilated cardiomyopathy associated with a large left ventricular thrombus in a young child with middle aortic syndrome

this article reports a case of a seven-year girl who presented with severe dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) associated with a large thrombus in the left ventricle (LV). She had a long segment stenosis of the lower thoracic descending aorta, possibly due to non-specific aortitis and underwent successful stent angioplasty. The LV thrombus resolved after heparin without sequelae.peer-reviewe

Flow Decomposition for Multi-User Channels - Part I

A framework based on the idea of flow decomposition is proposed to characterize the decode-forward region for general multi-source, multi-relay, all-cast channels with independent input distributions. The region is difficult to characterize directly when deadlocks occur between two relay nodes, in which both relays benefit by decoding after each other. Rate-vectors in the decode-forward region depend ambiguously on the outcomes of all deadlocks in the channel. The region is characterized indirectly in two phases. The first phase assumes relays can operate non-causally. It is shown that every rate-vector in the decode-forward region corresponds to a set of flow decompositions, which describe the messages decoded at each node with respect to the messages forwarded by all the other nodes. The second phase imposes causal restrictions on the relays. Given an arbitrary set of (possibly non-causal) flow decompositions, necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for the existence of an equivalent set of causal flow decompositions that achieves the same rate-vector region

The Meaning of the US Social Forum: A Reply to Whitaker and Bello\u27s Debate on the Open Space

The article looks at the actual achievements of the U.S. Social Forum (USFF) in order to assess the differing positions of Walden Bello and Chico Whitaker, both representatives on the International Council of the World Social Forum (WFS). Bello argued that the Forum\u27s open space methodology refuses to take a collective stand on any issues even on concerns as the war on Iraq. Meanwhile, Whitaker noted that the open space methodology left possible the opportunity for movements to independently build global coalitions that produced common manifestos

World Social Forum 2009: Time to Bring the WSF to the USA

I had the opportunity to both attend the Inauguration of the 44th President of the United States and to participate in the World Social Forum hosted in Belém, Brazil. The Inaugural was attended by 1.8 million citizens, which included a notably large percentage of African-Americans, from all over the country. The World Social Forum had over 133,000 participants from around the world with a substantial number of Pan-Amazonic social movements. In both cases I witnessed a mobilized, dynamic civil sphere aspiring to a new, better society. The key to achieving another world is to bring these spheres together

The Meaning of the US Social Forum: A Reply to Whitaker and Bello\u27s Debate on the Open Space

The article looks at the actual achievements of the U.S. Social Forum (USFF) in order to assess the differing positions of Walden Bello and Chico Whitaker, both representatives on the International Council of the World Social Forum (WFS). Bello argued that the Forum\u27s open space methodology refuses to take a collective stand on any issues even on concerns as the war on Iraq. Meanwhile, Whitaker noted that the open space methodology left possible the opportunity for movements to independently build global coalitions that produced common manifestos