Papers by Bhim N A T H Regmi
Journal of NELTA Gandaki 246 33 JoNG, Nov 7, 2022
This paper reports the results of a study that unpacked teachers' experiences and challenges adop... more This paper reports the results of a study that unpacked teachers' experiences and challenges adopting EMI policy in the public schools' multilingual classrooms. Building on a phenomenological design, we selected two primary level teachers purposively and collected data through in-depth interviews. Drawing upon the thematic analysis and interpretation of the data, the study revealed that teachers perceived EMI as a tool for achieving English language proficiency for the students and a means for the public schools to compete with their private counterparts. Contrarily, EMI in the public school's multilingual classrooms was found to be practised just as slogan and insufficient for effective students' participation in classroom learning. Since EMI leads multilingual learners towards monolingual direction, it has posed problems to both the teachers and students due to the low English language proficiency. The study implies that the EMI policy in the lower grades of public schools should be implemented considering the linguistic and cultural milieus of the students.
Myagdi Guru, 2024
Indian literature, both inside and outside India, produced by various writers has an wide range o... more Indian literature, both inside and outside India, produced by various writers has an wide range of contemporary thoughts. The majority of Indian literature produced in English, although there are collections of works that have been translated from Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, and other regional dialects, has a creative tradition. There is a movement among contemporary Indian writers to transform traditional India into and professional lives. Every phase of an individual's life is experimented with to how India's struggle for independence and the consequence of globalization added to modernity, and explores the interplay of tradition and innovation within Indian literary modernism. Prominent English writers who have migrated to the West have sliced modern human beings on the pages of literature, and made several attempts to connect their roots to the secular ideologies that are prevalent in India, and Indian ideas of a secular state can serve as a remedy for the current issues with peoplecentric politics.
Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal , 2024
From the Paleolithic era to modern times, the paradigms of gender have always been a significant ... more From the Paleolithic era to modern times, the paradigms of gender have always been a significant deliberation in human history. The Mahabharata, an ancient Sanskrit epic, is still a substantial source for understanding the political, social, cultural, and gender interactions of eastern society. For this purpose, this paper concentrates on how the epic has been characterized by a string of binary oppositions that limit the social structure to the heteronormative ideal of having a clear understanding of what it means to be a man or a woman, as well as their shared social behaviors and fixed identities. To address these complex difficulties, more purposeful interventions are needed. Queerness, as an old notion of heterosexual society, is necessary to address the problems. This primary concern links with the interpretation of how the epic represents queerness and what it tells us about the discourse about gender and sexuality. In order to examine normative and non-normative gender relations, Butler's concepts of gender difficulty, gender performative acts, and gender constitution might be useful. The paper thematically distinguishes between the subjectivity and the objectification of the characters, who exhibit a variety of queer traits that are now seen as static, inflexible, consistent, and only seen in terms of binary categories. Finally, it observes that the contemporary concept of sexuality shows a paradigm shift in attitudes toward gender behavior.
Jounal of Asia Social Science, Aug 30, 2022
This article explores the use of cannibalism in the story ‘The Diary of a Madman’. It has an enig... more This article explores the use of cannibalism in the story ‘The Diary of a Madman’. It has an enigmatic ending that concludes with the didactic concept i.e. ‘Save the Children…’ reflects the voice of youths in which Lu Xun’s story portrays the optimistic societal values in the context of China during the first phase of early 20th century. In this story, the dehumanized characters are often described as exposing the cannibalistic feudal society of pre-revolution China. He intends to criticize the nature of feudal society through the story that reveals the social life of Chinese people. This modern story intends to show the distasteful concept of cannibalism. The issue of cannibal is an icon of primitive society that is a part of ideological strength of embryonic society. Cannibalism acts in the story as a metaphor and the insanity of madman is a break from the feudal society and states his hopefulness for the entire human beings.
Asia Social Science Academy, 2022
This article explores the use of cannibalism in the story ‘The Diary of a Madman’. It has an enig... more This article explores the use of cannibalism in the story ‘The Diary of a Madman’. It has an enigmatic ending that concludes with the didactic concept i.e. ‘Save the Children…’ reflects the voice of youths in which Lu Xun’s story portrays the optimistic societal values in the context of China during the first phase of early 20th century. In this story, the dehumanized characters are often described as exposing the cannibalistic feudal society of pre-revolution China. He intends to criticize the nature of feudal society through the story that reveals the social life of Chinese people. This modern story intends to show the distasteful concept of cannibalism. The issue of cannibal is an icon of primitive society that is a part of ideological strength of embryonic society. Cannibalism acts in the story as a metaphor and the insanity of madman is a break from the feudal society and states his hopefulness for the entire human beings.
This article explores the distinctive opportunities arising from the concept of spiritual ecology... more This article explores the distinctive opportunities arising from the concept of spiritual ecology, and intersects with religion and ecology, religion and nature, and religion and environmentalism. On one side, these opportunities encompass problematic trends within certain facets of existing ecological aspect entangled with capitalist enclosures and consumerist desires. Conversely, it holds the promise of fostering the commitment to harmony with nonhumans' existence, and suggests for understanding that transcends the conventional confines of religion. Many works on spiritual ecology embrace a broad multiplicity, questioning how to discern between more favorable and less favorable expressions of spiritual ecology. As this, it upholds the value of diversity while differentiating between the anti-intellectual, individualistic, and capitalistic tendencies within spiritual ecology and those that align more closely with what can be characterized as ecological existentialism or co-existentialism. It emerges as a reaction to the ideals and socio-political frameworks of current periods, which have avoided an intimate connection with the world and its revered nature. Over the past century, it has evolved into an intellectual and practice-oriented discipline, addressing the need to reconnect with the sacred dimensions of the natural world.
Abstract: The epic Mahabharata is a unique narrative text and a collection of many stories – the dice game is one of the events of it. This event perpetuates ideas and ideal visions of Draupadi, her ethical obligation, and the socio-cultural norms of that time. The story of the dice game, in fac..., 2020
Abstract: The epic Mahabharata is a unique narrative text and a collection of many stories – the... more Abstract: The epic Mahabharata is a unique narrative text and a collection of many stories – the dice game is one of the events of it. This event perpetuates ideas and ideal visions of Draupadi, her ethical obligation, and the socio-cultural norms of that time. The story of the dice game, in fact, is a byproduct of 'rajasuya sacrifice' that envisions the insight of the real identity of Draupadi. It highlights a tension between womanhood and manhood –ultimately it is an echo of vengeance. The suffering of a woman is a central tendency of the dice game – again it is a woman who fights against injustice and unrighteous action. At first, as a passive woman, Draupadi shows her active role and controls the overall situation – and she finally gives a battling mode of the epic. Her political mocking to Guryodhana and her boom against the elders gives a new outline of politics.
Pursuits: A Journal of English Studies
The Gurkha and lahure with identical sense has gained their name and fame in western discourse. A... more The Gurkha and lahure with identical sense has gained their name and fame in western discourse. After the Anglo-Gorkha war fought in 1814-16 A. D., the hill-people of Nepal joined in British and Indian army forces and were referred to as ‘Gorkhas’ or ‘Goorkhali’or 'lahure'. The British rulers referred to them as ‘Gurkhas’ and British construction of lahure culture brought a division between lahure and non-lahure in Nepali society. It reveals that the practice of Gurkha as a product of western imperialism is still in use. The orientalist martial discourse dominates the historiography of Gurkhas. This article uses Lionel Caplan's theory that deals with the Gurkhas in the context of the western military imagination. The recruitment in military force accepted the Gurkha culture and turned their mythological character into reality to a considerable increase in Gurkha recruitment. The fact that Nepali writers and singers raised the different voices to accept and oppose the rea...
Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 2020
The epic Mahabharata is a unique narrative text and a collection of many stories – the dice game ... more The epic Mahabharata is a unique narrative text and a collection of many stories – the dice game is one of the events of it. This event perpetuates ideas and ideal visions of Draupadi, her ethical obligation, and the socio-cultural norms of that time. The story of the dice game, in fact, is a byproduct of 'rajasuya sacrifice' that envisions the insight of the real identity of Draupadi. It highlights a tension between womanhood and manhood –ultimately it is an echo of vengeance. The suffering of a woman is a central tendency of the dice game – again it is a woman who fights against injustice and unrighteous action. At first, as a passive woman, Draupadi shows her active role and controls the overall situation – and she finally gives a battling mode of the epic. Her political mocking to Guryodhana and her boom against the elders gives a new outline of politics.
Pursuits, 2023
AbstractThe Gurkha and lahure with identical sense has gained their name and fame in western di... more AbstractThe Gurkha and lahure with identical sense has gained their name and fame in western discourse. After the Anglo-Gorkha war fought in 1814-16 A. D., the hill-people of Nepal joined in British and Indian army forces and were referred to as ‘Gorkhas’ or ‘Goorkhali’or 'lahure'. The British rulers referred to them as ‘Gurkhas’ and British construction of lahure culture brought a division between lahure and non-lahure in Nepali society. It reveals that the practice of Gurkha as a product of western imperialism is still in use. The orientalist martial discourse dominates the historiography of Gurkhas. This article uses Lionel Caplan's theory that deals with the Gurkhas in the context of the western military imagination. The recruitment in military force accepted the Gurkha culture and turned their mythological character into reality to a considerable increase in Gurkha recruitment. The fact that Nepali writers and singers raised the different voices to accept and oppose the reality of lahure culture.
Gipan
The earliest evidence of writing in Nepal is about 250 BC in Brahmi script and almost all the scr... more The earliest evidence of writing in Nepal is about 250 BC in Brahmi script and almost all the scripts used in present day Nepal—as many as fifteen—are the descendants of Brahmi which are built on the same formative principles of 'syllabic alphabet'. The existence of multilanguage orthographies as well as multiscripts has been the regular phenomenon in Nepal—independent to languages and language families. In the complexity of language-ethnicity and language-script relations, Nepali and the Devanagari script have been bearing the role of linking people in this country resulting from and resulted into a medium of education, media, and wider communication. Many scholars, following UNESCO 1951 report, have suggested for a standard orthography for the languages of Nepal, however, there are other views as well. In this background a Devanagari based multilanguage orthography have been proposed. This will fulfill the need of interoperable standard orthography in Nepal and benefit var...
Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 2009
This paper describes the linguistic rationale underlying the part-of-speech tagset used for taggi... more This paper describes the linguistic rationale underlying the part-of-speech tagset used for tagging the Nepali National Corpus. In particular, three conceptually complex areas are discussed in detail. In the first place, the nature of Nepali postpositions is explored, and the approach that the tagset takes to them – in which postpositions are tokenised separately to the nouns or other words to which they are attached – is justified. A similar exploration of gender marking, however, supports an opposite approach, where gender is treated as a feature of the word on which it is marked, and indicated in that word’s tag. It is further argued that an inconsistent treatment of gender on nouns, as opposed to adjectives and other words that agree with nouns, is justified for Nepali. Thirdly, the very great complexity of Nepali verb inflection (some of it created by very productive compounding) is shown to necessitate the use, within the tagset, of a simplified model of the Nepali verb. A brief analysis of the similarities and differences between this tagset and part-of-speech annotation schemes for some closely related is undertaken. Finally, the implementation of the tagset in an automated tagging system is summarised and some directions for future work outlined.
Asia Social Science Academy, 2021
This article intends to sketch an overview of state policies of China in
Xinjiang Uyghur autono... more This article intends to sketch an overview of state policies of China in
Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region. It argues that the situation of China has changed
after 1949 with the change in politics. Chinese civilization has deep rooted in the ideas
of Confucius which has liberal democratic tendency. The concept of Chinese modern
development is pro-people development that aims to meet the basic needs of the
common people. Development is for a better and safe life and it appeals to the best of
many people. The CPC policy had broader implications for all minority groups, and
many of the state policies are a continuation of earlier policies. China’s Muslims are
clearly in the threshold in terms of self-preservation and Islamic identity. Uyghur
nationalism in Xinjiang was influenced by Muslims of Central Asia, especially Iranian
Muslim political ideology. In contemporary China, the growing consciousness of a
distinct Uyghur identity should not be linked with political extremist movement –it
distorts the political stability and development of the XUAR. China, now, is following
its own path of sustainable development while learning from its own classical
civilization.
Gipan, 2019
We have adopted double-blind peer review policy from this issue onward. The papers included in th... more We have adopted double-blind peer review policy from this issue onward. The papers included in this volume were reviewed by experts in the related fields, and subsequently revised by the authors. We hope the articles included in this volume will make academic contribution in exploring the emerging issues in linguistics in this area. The Himalayan range houses scores of languages, big and small, safe and endangered belonging to a number of language families across the political boundaries in general and Nepalese Linguistics in particular. Except for two papers related to archeology, and language planning, the papers included in this issue are about Tibeto-Burman, and Indo-Aryan languages spoken in Nepal. Interestingly, this volume will, therefore, contribute to the study of Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal.
2012 International Conference on Speech Database and Assessments, 2012
Language is used for communication and communication facilitates social activities. If we want to... more Language is used for communication and communication facilitates social activities. If we want to capture this, linguistic investigation has to be carried out within a wider context. Examination of linguistic communication in a wider context shows that it is multimodal. In order to study naturalistic multimodal communication using a corpus, the corpus should contain a combination of recordings, documentation, and transcription of multimodal communication from different social activities in naturalistic settings, preserving unedited conversation. This paper presents a brief account of the principles, methodology, current status, and preliminary findings, based on an incrementally growing and multimodal activity based spoken language corpus of Nepali.
1. Background This working paper presents an analysis of the existing practice of using Devanagar... more 1. Background This working paper presents an analysis of the existing practice of using Devanagari for the languages of Nepal with the list of advantages and disadvantages, and a proposal for a Devanagari-based multi-language orthography for the languages of Nepal. The paper is divided into seven sections including background.
Asia Social Science Academy
NUTA Journal
Mulk Raj Anand has created a unique position as a Humanist and a social writer in India writing i... more Mulk Raj Anand has created a unique position as a Humanist and a social writer in India writing in English. He has contributed in the development of Indian English Literature and focuses on caste issue, economic adversity and disgrace rooted in Indian society. He has public concerns and humanity for the subjugated people and his characters represent the social reality of suppressed people of India. His first novel Untouchable is an account of a day in the life of its protagonist- Bakha, an untouchable sweeper. He describes the depressed conditions of the untouchables, their immitigable hardships and physical and mental agonies almost with the meticulous skill of historical raconteur
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Papers by Bhim N A T H Regmi
Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region. It argues that the situation of China has changed
after 1949 with the change in politics. Chinese civilization has deep rooted in the ideas
of Confucius which has liberal democratic tendency. The concept of Chinese modern
development is pro-people development that aims to meet the basic needs of the
common people. Development is for a better and safe life and it appeals to the best of
many people. The CPC policy had broader implications for all minority groups, and
many of the state policies are a continuation of earlier policies. China’s Muslims are
clearly in the threshold in terms of self-preservation and Islamic identity. Uyghur
nationalism in Xinjiang was influenced by Muslims of Central Asia, especially Iranian
Muslim political ideology. In contemporary China, the growing consciousness of a
distinct Uyghur identity should not be linked with political extremist movement –it
distorts the political stability and development of the XUAR. China, now, is following
its own path of sustainable development while learning from its own classical
civilization.
Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region. It argues that the situation of China has changed
after 1949 with the change in politics. Chinese civilization has deep rooted in the ideas
of Confucius which has liberal democratic tendency. The concept of Chinese modern
development is pro-people development that aims to meet the basic needs of the
common people. Development is for a better and safe life and it appeals to the best of
many people. The CPC policy had broader implications for all minority groups, and
many of the state policies are a continuation of earlier policies. China’s Muslims are
clearly in the threshold in terms of self-preservation and Islamic identity. Uyghur
nationalism in Xinjiang was influenced by Muslims of Central Asia, especially Iranian
Muslim political ideology. In contemporary China, the growing consciousness of a
distinct Uyghur identity should not be linked with political extremist movement –it
distorts the political stability and development of the XUAR. China, now, is following
its own path of sustainable development while learning from its own classical
civilization.