The art form of villupattu is one the oldest forms folk liturgy and known to have originated from times when it lived as a hunting community. It can be seen that Villuppaattu was also significant among performed in characteristics cultural life. should noted later took initiative social reform beyond nature entertainment. In run-up completion worship at temple festivsals, artists begin villuppa...

In this journal, D. Rizza [2010: 176] expounded a solution of what he called “the indiscernibility problem for ante rem structuralism”, which is the problem to make sense of the presence, in structures, of objects that are indiscernible yet distinct, by only appealing to what that structure provides. We argue that Rizza’s solution is circular and expound a different solution that not only solve...

One of the central tenets of structuralism is that the sign relation, i.e. the connection between words (linguistic form) and concepts is arbitrary. Firstly, the way that linguistic material is divided into words is arbitrary, Secondly, the way that the world is divided into concepts is arbitrary. Saussure focused on the study of language as a structure (langue), as he considered the concrete u...

the non-linear order of revelations is often considered by many scholars to signify lack of coherence, disunity, and fragmentariness. it seems that 'coherence' and the related terms have veiled a significant linguistic feature of the qur’an, namely, the non-linear nature of revelations, which might be used to make a distinction between ordinary and quranic discourse. we will argue that to unvei...

C ytotoxic T cells patrol body tissues in search of cells that are infected with pathogens and immediately kill any they fi nd. For the T cell, the killing process involves dramatic rearrangements of its cytoskeleton and of secre-tory granules containing cytotoxic proteins. Gillian Griffi ths blends the fi elds of immu-nology and cell biology to investigate how T cells land their killing blow. ...