This study investigates achievement motivation among tribal and non-tribal college students in Assam using the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT). Achievement motivation, a critical determinant of success, varies significantly across cultural and social contexts. Through an analysis of TAT responses, this research explores the motivational drives, aspirations, and barriers faced by students from diverse backgrounds. The findings reveal distinct patterns in the narratives, reflecting the influence of socio-cultural factors on goal-setting, persistence, and achievement orientation. Tribal students’ stories often emphasize collective aspirations and overcoming systemic challenges, while non-tribal students highlight individual ambition and competitive success. The study underscores the importance of culturally tailored educational and psychological interventions to foster achievement motivation in heterogeneous groups.

Human rights are the basic liberties and freedoms to which all people are entitled, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, or religion. They represent the foundation of justice, equality, and human dignity. In Nepal, these rights are protected and promoted by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), an independent agency formed to defend people' rights. This study explores the NHRC's legal mission and powers, with a particular emphasis on its role in defending human rights across the country. The research intends to examine the NHRC's structure, evaluate its efficacy in promoting and defending human rights, and examine the constitutional provisions that regulate its establishment and administration. This research takes a historical, exploratory, and analytical approach, drawing on secondary data sources such as Nepal's constitutions, books, journals, and articles. It examines the history of the NHRC and assesses how successfully it has addressed human rights concerns in Nepal's complicated sociopolitical situation. The purpose of this research is to provide a more in-depth knowledge of the NHRC's effect and make recommendations for improving its role in human rights protection.

The oppression of women has been a salient feature of societies across the globe. Consequently, there has been a continuous effort to write liberation literature to emancipate women from the yoke of patriarchal thought. This paper examines the gender politics articulated by selected authors. The novels have been identified to survey the plight of women in three geographical locations; East, West and South Africa. The aim of this research is to reveal that these writers (re)place the selected female characters in an attempt to subvert the historical conditions of women in African societies. The study reads Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s political women in Matigari (1987), Petals of Blood (1977), A Grain of Wheat (1967), Tsitsi Dangarembga’s women conditions in Nervous Conditions (1988), Mariama Bâ’s resolute Muslim woman in So Long a Letter (1986), and Ousmane Sembène’s bits of women in God’s Bits of Wood (1962). This study concludes that these texts succeed in reconfiguring the woman through subversive strategies.