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Item Gender Bias in Manju Kapur's Home(Faculty of English, 2014) Khadka, GopalGender is a distinction of biological physical characteristics typically associated with either males or females of a species. Consequently, gender identity is a person's own sense of identification as male or female that is used to distinguish this psychological association, from physiological and sociological aspects of gender. Traditional gender role puts men as rational, strong, protective, and decisive while women are considered as emotional, weak, nurturing, and submissive. The thesis seeks gender equality between male and females having same status, rights and responsibilities for women and men. It means equal participation of men and women in all fields without discrimination based on sex.The thesis mainly focuses on Third World feminism,a group of feminist theories developed by feminists acquiring their values and participating in feminist politics in so called Third World countries.It postulates that the third world women are treated as slave domestic animals being confined within the four walls of house. The novel Home, by Manju Kapur, is about the partition and gender bias and its impact on people’s behavior and manners as reflected in characters in the novel. Kapur,while bringing the characters in the text, shows their traumatic experiences because of the gender discrimination. The thesis emphasizes prejudiced experience of female characters in Home.The novel focuses on the female characters who are suffering from the patriarchal norms and values. Banwari Lal's family who comes to India in course of partition and starts a traditional business,selling saris that is being sidelined by the new fashion forjeans and stitched salwarkameez,to which BanwariLal's family has to adapt. However, instead of branching out, the sons remain apprenticed to the struggling shop, and the daughters and daughter-in-laws are confined to the family home.Item The Knowledge Attitude and Behaviour on STIs and HIV/AIDS (A Case Study among Reproductive Age Peoples of Dalit Community on Banfikot VDC, Rukum District)(Department of Population Studies, 2009) Khadka, GopalHIV/AIDS has been threatening the human being since last two decades. It has also killed millions of human being and still the care for it is beyond the capacity of the modern medical science. At first it is appeared in the United States and dramatically spread to Europe, America, Africa, Australia and Asia that colonized the whole world STIs and HIV/AIDS have been the crucial public health problem in theworld. In Africa, it is the major cause of death, nowadays it has been rapidlyincreasing in the developing countries. It has also been great barrier for developing countries. Effort in all the aspects like prevention, counselling advocacy and care have been made from an sectors like GOs/INGOs and many international communities such as WHO, DNAIDS, Red Cross and OPEC. This study on knowledge attitude and behaviour of STDs and HIV/AIDS inDalit community in Banfikot VDC, Rukum district is carried out on the basic ofprimary data collected by using purposive random sampling in ward no. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9 (Kami and Damai, Gaun, Gaine, Sunuwar, Tamtta). The main objectives of this study is to access the knowledge attitude behaviours of STIs and HIV/AIDS in Dalit community. The sample population taken as 120 (males 68 and females 52) respondents from selected households, all of themare Hindus.Damai were 55, Kami 56, Sarki 2, Sunwar 2, Tamrakar 2, Gaine 2. Thereis electricity facility at all in the study area. About 50 percent respondents heard about STDs and 49.2 percent heard aboutHIV/AIDS the major source of information about STIs in Radio (54.2). Only about 14.2 percent respondents said HIV/AIDS are different and nearly73.3 percent respondent do not know about different or both are same and 12.5percent respondent said do not know about it. However, they have confusion onsymptoms, mode of transmission and preventive measure. In the part of behaviour on security condom use nearly 21.9 and Depo 62.5percent respondents used. 15.8 percent respondent love and respected to infected people and 73.4 percent hated them, 10 percent do not know. However, level of education and occupation affect the behaviour of the respondent.Item Projection of Post-Independence Political Disillusionment in Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq(Department of English, 2017) Khadka, GopalThefluctuatingpolitical conflicts between Sultan Tughlaq and his courtiers have been depictedone after the another in Girish Karnad’splayTughlaq. There is obviously, murder, intrigue, killing and suffering but they all are creative. The intensity of Sultan’s power changes with variation in political circumstances.The determinant factors such as power and intellectuality, cultural values and norms, economy and social practices impact on the balance of power. The power is not in hierarchy, but in horizontal relationship that the research finds. Besides, this thesis findsthat both politics and religion are ideological constructs based on false assumption of conspiracy and rebel. After analyzing the play through the theoretical perspective of New Historicism, thisresearch entitled“Projection of Post-Independence Political Disillusionment in Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq”comesto the conclusion that Karnad dramatizes the psychological trauma of Sultan and internal conflict within Royal Palace between the two ideologies i.e. religion and politics where there is challenge to sustain ancestral power to rule.Moreover,Karnad draws on14 th century pre-independence India in order to criticize and draw the parallel line in the post–colonialperiod.