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Item Employee's Ethical behavior of local Government of Suryabinayak Municipality, Bhaktapur(Department of Public Administration, 2022) Bhandari, RitaIn the contemporary world, ethics has been a major subject of political and economic domain. There has been a lot of discussion about the negative repercussions of unethical behavior by executives and employees and collapse of multinational businesses and public enterprises. Therefore, the main purpose of the study is to assess the ethical behavior of employees on local government of Suryabinayak Municipality, Bhaktapur to make recommendations for ways to enhance service delivery in local level government. On ontological perspective, this research was based on objectivist and subjectivist philosophical paradigm followed by positivist and interpretive mode of epistemological reasoning. It is the deductive research and its research methodology comprises descriptive research design. The primary source of data were collected through questionnaire and semi-structured interview. Purposive or judgmental sampling was applied in this research. The quantitative data has been presented in table including frequency and percentage. The qualitative data was analyzed thematically in descriptive way. The study reveals that employees’ ethical practices in local government in Suryabinayak Municipality are satisfactory. Level of awareness on good governance practices in the local level is high. The value of ethics in employee for doing work is found to be fair. Levels of courtesy, informed accessibility and transparency are satisfactory. Majority of the employees were aware about the code of ethics of organization and while implementing them. The available codes of conduct are found to be sufficient while addressing the unethical practices of service delivery in local governance. The qualitative and quantitative result depicted that there were major challenges which hinder good governance practices in local level viz. corruption, bureaucracy, political interference, delays, incompetence, and nepotism, lack of funds, poor management and lack of technology. It is concluded that corruption is chronic problems of local governance practices in local level. So, public service institutions should give due attention to such issues. The research concludes that effectiveness, fairness, competition and transparency in government service delivery processes can be best achieved by strong ethical conduct of public servant officials.Item The Politics of Autobiography in Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis and Phaedra’s Love(Department of English, 2015) Bhandari, RitaThis research closely examines Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis and Phaedra’s Love as autobiographical plays that are based on Kane’s own life experience. It tries to explore Kane’s motive behind the inclusion of autobiographical elements in these plays. Her plays represent the condition of women in patriarchal society. Applying the theory of autobiography the researcher attempts to analyze the politics behind the use of Kane’s own life story as a subject matter. In this plays she represents her as the representative of other females. In these plays Kane expresses her personal matters about her mental state, feelings and desires which should are supposed to remain secret with her. In fact, she wants to encourage those women who feel hesitant to express their feelings with others. In the same way she feels some relief by confessing her every feeling because sharing is best medium to reduce own’s suffering. Similarly, in these plays, Kane shows the conflict between life force and death force. In fact, this is not only the condition of Sarah Kane’s life but this is the condition of everybody. In this way, the concept of the eros and thanatos in these two plays become personal as well as political. Hence, this project explores into Sarah Kane’s play 4.48 Psychosis and Phaedra’s Love as an amalgam of personal and political motives.Item The Politics of Autobiography in Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis and Phaedra’s Love(Department of English, 2015) Bhandari, RitaThis research closely examines Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis and Phaedra’s Love as autobiographical plays that are based on Kane’s own life experience. It tries to explore Kane’s motive behind the inclusion of autobiographical elements in these plays. Her plays represent the condition of women in patriarchal society. Applying the theory of autobiography the researcher attempts to analyze the politics behind the use of Kane’s own life story as a subject matter. In this plays she represents her as the representative of other females. In these plays Kane expresses her personal matters about her mental state, feelings and desires which should are supposed to remain secret with her. In fact, she wants to encourage those women who feel hesitant to express their feelings with others. In the same way she feels some relief by confessing her every feeling because sharing is best medium to reduce own’s suffering. Similarly, in these plays, Kane shows the conflict between life force and death force. In fact, this is not only the condition of Sarah Kane’s life but this is the condition of everybody. In this way, the concept of the eros and thanatos in these two plays become personal as well as political. Hence, this project explores into Sarah Kane’s play 4.48 Psychosis and Phaedra’s Love as an amalgam of personal and political motives.