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Item Critique of Political Violence in Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns(Central Departmentof English, 2013) Khanal, Narayan PrasadThis study analyzes Khaled Husseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns making a critique of Political violence. This novel is written in the context of Afghanistan. So, the study is concerned with how Afghan people have been hegemonized, suppressed and killed by Russia, Taliban, America and other ethnic groups. In the novel, many characters have been involved in the politics of Afghanistan directly or indirectly. First of all, they were exploited by Soviet Union in the name of communism and later on they faced terrible violence by different religious and ethnic groups like Taliban and Mujahidin. In the last phase of the event as shown in the novel, Afghans are facing the domination of America that has promoted terrorism and violence. Laila, Mariam, Giti are the subjects of double victimization. Laila loses her family and is forced to marry an old man. Similarly, Tariq, too, has become homeless and jobless. He loses his leg at the age of five, loving family and flees the home country to escape the terrible war. Rasheed becomes jobless and is killed by his wife. Through the presentation of such characters, the writer has become able to reflect the political violence in Afghanistan. The above- mentioned events are the war triggered consequences that are backed by political violence in various forms making people homeless, jobless and even putting their existence under question. The issue of humanity becomes fragile in the war torn country. So, the characters like Tariq, Laila and Mariam are the victims of the same situation in one way or another.Item Critique ofWestern Modernityand Valorization of Eastern Cultural Valuesin Karan Bajaj'sThe Seeker(Department of English, 2018) Chalise, SunitaAvailable with full textItem Evacuation of Trauma in Wiesel's Night(Department of English, 2013) Subedi, Basu DevThis auto-biographical account of Elie Wiesel, Night, published in 1958 (and this translated edition 2006) was just after The Second World War and the Holocaust. The Second World War and the Holocaust caused innumerable deaths with terror. So, postwar writings were mainly affected by the warfare and its destruction which caused trauma in the authors. This also affected Elie Wiesel who himself was the Holocaust survivor. So, his writings were mainly about the experience of the concentration camp during the Holocaust. Those experiences of inhuman torture and the deaths of others in his eyes caused trauma in him during and after his revelation from the concentration camps and Night is highly affected with it. In Night, the author has tried to act out the trauma of the Holocaust which he faced after the sufferings in the concentration camps. Night is the evacuation of trauma of the author. In dealing with the trauma, 'acting out' and 'working through' both forms are implied. Acting out of trauma is a tendency to relive the past that intrude the present existence as in flashback; or in nightmare; or in words that are compulsively repeated, to exist in the present as if the victims were still fully in the past, with no distance from it. So 'acting out' is more retrospective whereas 'working through' is more curative that suggests or sees some positive ways under the dark part trying to justify oneself being a quality of betterment and just in comparison to the evil factors. Wiesel seems to act out trauma in the beginning phase but later he works through the trauma that the Holocaust was a great black spot in human history. The German rulers who ran the Holocaust are inhuman beings.Item Rebuilding the Image of Sikhs inTrain to Pakistan(Department of English, 2006) Neupane, Ashwin KumarIn the widely acclaimed novel,Train to Pakistan,Khushwant Singh has accentuated his Sikh characters as having been guided by the sense of humility and humanity. Though Sikhs have been conventionally charged for having themselves involved in genocide of Muslims, it is a wrong image of Sikhs created and sustained by convention. Here, by showing Sikh characters like Meet Singh and Banta Singh ingeneral, and the protagonist Jugga Singh in particular as the strong supporters of Gandhian non-violence and saintly behaviour, the researcher claims that Khushwant Singh has pungently darted his criticism against the so called convention and its negativepresentation regarding the image of Sikhs.