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Item Critique of Christian Rhetoric of Confession in Jodi Picoult's The Story Teller(Department of English, 2020) Rai, NabinThe major thrust of this research is the critique of the Christian rhetoric of confession in Jodi Picoult's novel,The Story Teller. Weber is an old Nazi soldier who is extremely repentant for his engagement in the discourse of anti-Semitism during the Third Reich. Bounded by professional and racial restrictions, he is involved in genocidal violence. He is an agent and perpetrator of the harsh practice of anti- Semitism. In the prime of youth, he was unaware of the outcome of his thoughtless activities. Onlyin the old age, he is awake to the pros and cons of his reckless choices. Guilt, repentance, and unconscious longing for redemption drive him ceaselessly when he approaches old age. His innermost longing heightens his faith in Christian precept of salvation via repentance and confession. But the outcome turns out to be totally contrary to him. The very confession of his past crimes and inhuman activities to his so-called lady friend digs his grave. Instead of witnessing the peaceful and blissful end of hislife, he has to face the fate of being arrested by that person whom he believed as the true friend. The very emphasis of Christianity on faith as the sovereign force of liberation is turned upside down. Actually, it is the void, the emptiness and weakening of humanistic values that underlie entire spectrum of human existence. This issue is tested from the vantage point of moral nihilism chiefly propounded by Friedrich Nietzsche. Key Words: Nihilism, Christianity, Confession, RedemptionItem Running between the Wickets: Defining Self by Sports in Sachin Tendulkar’s Playing It My Way(Department of English, 2021) Timsina, Amir KumarAutobiography usually incorporates the inner self of the individual, and presents the mirror image of the self rarely known to others besides all the public exposure one has earned. But in contrast,Tendulkar’s autobiography,Playing it My Way,isno more than a reiterationof all his accolades and glory he has earned as a cricketer. Grounded with all the textual evidence, the photos he has included, the accolades he has mentioned, and all those not-so-beautiful behind the scenes missed out;this research paperclaims that this autobiography is nothing more than the appraisal of Tendulkar’s self, an aggrandizement of the self.For this purpose, this research paper mainly brings the ideas of Linda Anderson, Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson and Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler to analyze the text. Linda Anderson in her Autobiography raises the issues of credibility, authorship, selfhood, representation, identity, language, etc in an autobiography. She questions in the pervasiveness and slipperiness of autobiography. Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler in "The Glorified Self: The Aggrandizement and the Constriction of Self" write how a person changes his/her self or glorifies it when he/she becomes a celebrity. And Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson in Reading Autobiography:A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives introduce autobiography comprehensively and critically. Key Words: Self, Aggrandizement,Confession,Narrating 'I', Identity