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Item Critique of casteist ideology in Anand's untouchable and Roy's the god of small things(2015) Mijar, Dhana Bahadur; Badri Prasad AcharyaBoth Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things show the severe casteist discrimination of Indian society by representing the caste subaltern characters Bakha and Velutha respectively. In the former Anand represent Bakha as a servile and submissive character, whereas in the latter Velutha has been represented as a brave and sacrificial character. However, both of them become the victims of superstitious human psychology based on the state-protected Hindu ideology. Being a Marxist writer from the early twentieth century Anand talks about casteism in relation to classism while being a leftist writer in the late twentieth century Roy analyzes casteism in relation to ethnicity, gender, geographical location and psychology. Therefore, Bakha lives without dignity, cannot speak on his own, whereas, Velutha dies with dignity, revolts against the stereotypical traditional behavior and practices as Roy attempts to represent postmodern and post-colonial human psychology. Baby Kochamma is an antagonist who files FIR in police station by posing Velutha, a blame of abducting and murdering her niece Sophie Mol, who, indeed, dies by drowning in the river in boat accident. Roy portrays Velutha as a rebel who transgresses conventional values by having sexual relationship with Ammu, 'upper caste', divorcee of Baba. In this way, Bakha in Untouchable cannot speak, whereas Velutha in The God of Small Things can speak.Item Narrating Trauma for Nationalism in South Asian Autobiographical Writings(2025) Lamichhane, Yog Raj; Dhruba Bahadur KarkiPolitical leaders from Nepal, India, and the regions that later became Pakistan and Bangladesh collectively resisted British colonialism in the struggle for Indian independence. Notably, Nepal supported this cause despite never being colonized. During this movement, the South Asian leaders endured significant suffering. While the pursuit of political freedom united them, their cohesive relationship disintegrated in the post-independence period. Based on this background, this study has analyzed the autobiographies Atmabrittanta by Bishweshwar P. Koirala and An Autobiography by Jawaharlal Nehru and the memoirs If I Am Assassinated by Zulfikar A. Bhutto and The Unfinished Memoirs by Sheikh M. Rahman to explore the connection between trauma and nationalism in the region. Generally, an autobiography is considered a chronological account of a person’s life, whereas a memoir is a collection of specific experiences. However, all four selected texts are autobiographical and communicate similar themes like trauma, resistance, independence, nationalism, and imprisonment. Specifically, this study has examined how the authors’ collective resistance to British colonialism fractures into disunity in the postcolonial period, how their personal and political grief is transformed into collective cultural trauma, and why this grief is narrated through the social process of cultural trauma, employing a qualitative research design and textual analysis method. The study has primarily drawn on the theoretical concepts from Jeffrey C. Alexander’s Trauma: A Social Theory, Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, and Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson’s Reading Autobiography to frame the analysis of trauma and nationalism. Finally, analysis has revealed a complex interplay of themes: unification for independence and division over nationalism, the projection of “my suffering was for all of us,” and the narration of pain as a means of forging a nation and nationalism, respectively, related to the viii objectives of the study. However, further research is needed to examine the relationship between autobiographical writing and intergenerational trauma, particularly in terms of political legacy, as this study primarily focuses on the narration of trauma within the context of nationhood politics.Item Loss of childhood innocence in Toni Marrison's The Bluest Eye(2013) Bhusal, Kamal; Hom Nath SharmaNot availableItem The Transformation of Yeong-Hye in The Vegetarian by Han Kang(Saraswati Multiple Campus, Lekhnath Marg, Kathmandu, 2025) Shrestha, Jyoti; Kul Bahadur KhadkaThis thesis explores the profound transformation of the character, Yeong-Hye within Han Kang's groundbreaking novel The Vegetarian. It is indeed a hypothetical framework by employing Deleuze and Guattari's revolutionary concept of becoming animal. The study illustrates how the protagonist, Yeong-Hye comes with an evolutionary transformation from a submissive housewife toward a rebellious incarnation that tries to break free from all synthetic social boundaries. However, this radical metamorphosis constitutes a metaphor, a deep philosophical resistance against the social norms, the mechanisms of masculine dominion, institutional surveillance, and physical suppression. It reviews the existing literary criticism and theoretical texts that addresses the crucial themes of identity development. It further analyses the acts of resistance, and post-human transformation that will support the subsequent philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. The crucial textual analysis of The Vegetarian focuses on Yeong-Hye's enlightened separation from the binding social world and human restrictions. The chapter reveals and tries to demonstrate how her refusal of eating meat and her desire to live like plant isn’t insanity. Drawing upon Deleuze and Guattari's concept of Becoming, the thesis argues her transformation as a deliberate philosophical act an escape from restrictive social norms and hierarchy imposed by society. Finally, the thesis concludes that Yeong-Hye's journey can be understood as an agonizing yet liberating illustrations of becoming-animal The Vegetarian emerges not merely as a narrative of individual rebellion, but it serves as a philosophical work that questions human-centered thinking and creates new ways to understand the complex nature of existence.Item The Blemished Reality of Women in the Selected Lyrical Songs of Tara Thapa(Saraswati Multiple Campus, Lekhnath Marg, Kathmandu, 2025) Rai, Urmila; Kul Bahadur KhadkaThis research paper aims to analyze and investigate how the women are portrayed as subordinated to men in the eight purposively selected songs sung by Tara Thapa in the contemporary society. To address this objective, the researcher is going to examine the primary text (lyrics) of each song and analyze it in-depth by using the liberal feminism. The study aims to explore how the reality of women is blemished or misrepresented in different forms of literatures like poems, songs and novels. Here the researcher aims to explore how both the male and female lyricists have used the different metamorphic symbols in their songs to show the superiority of men in the contemporary society. Tara Thapa, a female singer who has sung songs of female lyricists as well as male lyricists embodies the patriarchal ideas challenging the traditional gender roles. This study has used the qualitative analysis and applies liberal feminist theory as the main analytical tool. The significance of this research study lies in its attempt to reveal the hidden gender biasness in popular cultural norms and to show how the songs behold the deep cultural meanings while also offering the potential for social change for equality, freedom and autonomy.Item Gender Trauma in Faustina Bama’s Karukku(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2024) Khanal, Bhabana; Tara Lal ShresthaNot available.Item India in Historical and Literary Writings: A Critique of Representation(2024) Yadav, Prabhu Ray; Amma Raj JoshiAvailable in fulltext.Item Reinterpretation of the Bhagavaadgita in Swami Vivekananda’s selected poems and essays(2024) Kandel, Tika Ram; Krishna Chandra SharmaNot availableItem Politics of Feminist Auto/ Ethnography; personal as political in Annie Ernaux's A Woman's Story(2025) Dhakal, Alina; Badri Parsad AcharyaAvailable in fulltextItem Effectiveness of Anti- Corruption Agency in controlling corruption(2024) Adhikari, Anish; Tara Prasad BhusalAvailable in fulltextItem Relating Religion and middle class mentality in Kiran Desai's Hullabaloo in the Gauva orchard(2009) Paudel, Tika Raj; Prakash SubediNot availableItem Black Atlantic and the Fractured Landscape of Afro-Americanism in morrison's Beloved and A Mercy(2011) Tripathi, Dinesh Chandra; Beerendra PandeyAvailable in fulltextItem Celebration of eastern values in Anita Desai’s Diamond Dust(2011) Nyaupane, Laban; Baikuntha PoudelAvailable in fulltextItem Unveiling identity through interactive narratives: a study of Abdulrazak Gurnah's Gravel Heart(2024) Tiwari, Ranjita; Diwakar Upadhyay AryalNot availableItem Manifestation of subjective identity: psychonalytical study on Philip Roth’s the Humbling(2011) Marahatta, Binod; Beerendra PandeyAvailable in fulltextItem Elision of Holocaust violence in james Bradley's Flags of our Fathers(2010) Adhikari, Vijay Singh; Ghanshyam BhandariAvailable in fulltextItem A critique of the american dream in gabriele muccino's film, the pursuit of happyness(2011) G. C., Saroj; Anirudra Thapaavailable in fulltextItem Terrorism as a means of resistance to American Hegemony in Mohsin Hamid’s the Reluctant Fundamentalist(2011) Khatri, Prakash; Pradip Raj GiriAvailable in fulltextItem Mother-daughter bond in Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's wife(2011) Rai, Dhana Raj; Deepak GiriAvailable in fulltextItem A study of symbols in Dan Brown's Angels and Demons(2011) Rai, Arun; Rebati NeupaneAvailable in full text