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Item Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World: A Case of Dehumanization(Department of English, 2007) Gautam, DipendraThis thesis basically analyzes Aldous Huxley’sBrave New Worldtofocus his fear of possible dehumanization that may take place in future world. His fear was not baseless, widespread fear of Americanization which has been current in Europe since Second World War was root cause of his fear of loss of humanity. So called power holders of his time like Hitler and Mussolini are the representatives of future world controllers. He, along with George Orwell, inNineteen Eighty Four,foresees the controlled future world with handful of power mongers. He finds the rapiddevelopment of science and technology a possible threat to humanity. The Advancement of Genetic Engineering, by which disease, aging, pain and the likes can be eliminated, which may produce only the superman and intellectuals is disgusting and terrible. His strong character spokesman, John the savage commits suicide in the end, is his fear of so called utopian world. He satirizes modern people’s thought and hope of utopian world, for him such world seems rather dystopian because utopian world possesses not humans but automatons. His extension of Pavlov’s conditioning theory to the conditioning of human in Brave New Worldis just to show the possible dehumanization. Soma, the ultimate drugs releasing every pain, gloom and fear makes him worry of loss of human nature. He has put all such fears in theBrave New World. So, his central concern inBrave New Worldis the dehumanization of human beings.Item Nature and Culture Praxis: Life-Ritual Performances of Santhal Tribe(Central Department of English, 2012-08) Gautam, DipendraPerformance is that area of study, which generates curiosity in any scholar even in his/her first encounter. I was amazed to see its charm and depth. This thesis is an outcome of an attempt of analyzing performance and performative qualities of Santhal tribe of eastern Nepal. They are, by nature, performative with dances, songs, ideas of colors, decoration, feasts, and celebrations. They display a great deal of performance activities in their special celebrations and also show their unparallel love and attachment to nature. From their settlement pattern to social practices, Santhals are found in close proximity to nature. Festivals are designed to celebrate changes in nature. In fact, Santhals are attuned with nature, agricultural term and seasons. They enjoy nature and celebrate it in each and every cultural and ritual act. But, the important feature of Santhal community is that Performance is essential to carry out such transitions. Even, cultural transitions are also celebrated through rituals. Rituals, in Santhal community, are complete only by means of performance. But, the unique feature of performance in Santhal community is that it brings culture and nature together. Nature is turned into cultural space by means of performance. Performance, which is intrinsically attached to Santhal’s culture, plays the role of a bridge between nature and culture. Nature and culture are brought together into the house, yard, ‘gramthan’ and public places by means of performances. Life rituals: birth, marriages and death in Santhal community engages both nature and culture. There is frequent encounter and interplay between nature and culture, which is made possible through the performance in Santhal community.Item Risk management of commercial banks in Nepal (A comparative study between EBL, NIBL, KBL, MBL & GIBL)(Department of Management, 2015) Gautam, DipendraNot available