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Item George Orwell’s 1984: An Exploration into the Roles of Agency and Sensor(Faculty of English, 2017) Paudel, PrakashThis research work explores into the complex relationships among the participants of the political system, and explicates the simultaneous existence of hope in the seemingly dystopian fictional world crafted in George Orwell’s 1984. The narrative parallelly renders the pessimism and optimism, one explicitly whereas the next implicitly. The gloomy picture of totalitarian regime is directly painted as the misuse of technological advancement and state institutions become escalating. Using the modern inventions and technologies, rulers monitor the mobile movements of the people, heavily discouraging them to breach the scheduled daily rituals. The looming and pervasive modern panopticon limits the performative power of people. As a result, the opportunity of exercising their potential decisive power shrinks. Therefore, they have to adhere to the normativity set by the political rulers, shutting down the degrees of hope. Yet, the people still hold the individual power to go against the regime with resistance and, for that, the narrative rewards with the voice of ruled ones, a profound source of hope. To penetrate into such a parallel functioning of hope, the agency and sensor of the characters are taken into account. The research blends political theories, having insights from Critical Discourse Analysis in general and Paul Simpson’s idea in particular. This research, therefore, examines the role of sensor and agency played by participants, and comes to a conclusion that narrative rewards the both roles on the ruler and the ruled ones. Hence it concludes that even in totalitarian regime, there remains a sense of hope even amidst looming hopelessness.Item Good governance practices of local government in godawari municipality of Lalitpur, Nepal(Department of Rural Development, 2022) Katuwal, ChirinjibiGood governance in local government level is the accountable, rule based, justice- oriented, transparent, inclusive, efficient, effective, ethical, participatory and democratic arrangement and exercise of power over political, economic, social and administrative aspects at a certain territorial area delimited by a constitution or any act or time immemorial practice. Despite the huge scale of resource investment, reform efforts, political system and regime change, Nepal‘s governance quality has been continuously blamed as poor by various institutions and levels of people and sufficient research at federal set up is still lacking. This study aims at assessing the good governance practices, analyzing perception about it of elected representatives, administrative officials, service recipients and local intellectuals in the federal setting. It adopted a quantitative approach based on primary data, employing survey method using structured questionnaire as a strategy of inquiry. Out of 359 sample population, 180 sample sizes from three ward offices and a municipal office of Godawari municipality of lalitpur district is determined using stratified cluster and purposive sampling. Data were analyzed using quantitative SPSS computer software for descriptive and inferential statistics. The results of this enquiry shows that the combined value of accountability, transparency, rule of law, participation, efficiency and effectiveness is in slightly above average or good condition now. Five indices showed significant strong positive correlation between and among those indices. But on the matter of corruption, People still perceive that political leaders and administrative personnel are mainly responsible for corruption. Public service delivery status, performance status, satisfaction of people range from average to agreed level. Principles of good governance and practice showed somehow gap to be fulfilled.Item Print media and people's movement 2006 in Nepal(Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Journalism and Mass Communication, 2024) Aryal, Deb RajAvailable with full text