Lines in the Mud: Tank Eco-restoration and Boundary Contestations in Chennai

This article analyses the politics of environmentalism revealed in struggles over the land–water boundary of an urbanising tank in Chennai. In contesting this boundary, property-less settlers on its banks called into question the tank’s ‘nature’ and functions in its urban milieu, and demanded a redrawing of boundaries to reflect the socio-natural transformations that had turned parts of it into land. Simultaneously, propertied residents, in concert with state eco-restoration schemes and court rulings, fought to restore the tank to its ‘original’ dimensions. In foregrounding the liminalities of the urbanising tank, this article suggests the limits of the contemporary property-determined eco-restoration discourse, premised on a return to pristine pasts and original boundaries. It proposes that the stand-off between water body restoration and the defence of working-class housing rights necessitates recognising the tank as an artefact assembled over time by socio-technical and natural processes.

A boundary property of some subclasses of functions of bounded type in the half-plane

The paper gives the construction of the half-plane analog of the part of the factorization theory of M.M. Djrbashian – V.S. Zakaryan, where Djrbashian’s generalized fractional integral was used to establish the descriptive representations and boundary properties of meromorphic in the unit disc functions of the classes

Mean topological dimension for random bundle transformations

We introduce the mean topological dimension for random bundle transformations, and show that continuous bundle random dynamical systems with finite topological entropy or satisfying the small boundary property have zero mean topological dimensions.

RETRACTED ARTICLE: A note on the boundary behavior for a modified Green function in the upper-half space

Motivated by (Xu et al. in Bound. Value Probl. 2013:262, 2013) and (Yang and Ren in Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. Math. Sci. 124(2):175-178, 2014), in this paper we aim to construct a modified Green function in the upper-half space of the n-dimensional Euclidean space, which generalizes the boundary property of general Green potential.