Tharus, an indigenous ethnic group found in the borderlands of Nepal and India, have been subject to extensive studies affirming their status as indigenous tribes. This research delves into the Tharu identity, characterizing them as a mestizo group—a blend of various cultural influences. While Tharus' origin stories exhibit diversity, historical records confirm their early settlement in the Terai region of Nepal, establishing them as the original inhabitants. Despite inscriptions suggesting immigration, Tharus, including the Chitwania subgroup, are rooted in indigenous origin, culture, and myths like Jimutbahan (Jitiya), Bikram Baba, and Lotus Pond myths. Tharus are viewed as ethnic yet mixed tribes, with origin narratives hinting at descent from Buddha or Mongols mingled with Hindu Aryans culturally. Their religious and cultural practices reflect this mixed heritage, as they observe Hindu rituals uniquely and incorporate distinct elements into traditional practices related to birth, marriage, death, and festivals. This mixed identity fosters a mestizo-ethnic affiliation for Tharus, straddling two realities without purely belonging to either. Analogous to the mestizo identity in America, where Native Americans share a mixed heritage with Europeans, Tharus' identity is shaped by their origin, culture, and myths. Residing in the borderlands referred to as La Frontera in Spanish terms, this research endeavors to unveil how Chitwania Tharus embody a mestizo identity through archival exploration and in-person interviews with Tharu individuals and researchers.

This article investigates the relationship between a typical western philosophical concept, post foundationalism, and Ubuntu, a typical African Philosophy. The author has recently been involved in two research projects: Firstly the exploration of the post foundationalist paradigm and its significance of it for practical theology; secondly a study of Ubuntu and its value for human and social development in Africa. This article is an autoethnographic journey consisting of a reflection on those two projects and the link between them. The reflection focuses on three concepts: Does it work?; whiteness; and research and fiction.

The increasing number of internet users has become one of the causes of the influx of various information, content, and culture from outside that can be received by internet users. The purpose of this research is to find out how the internet is utilized to fulfil information needs. The research method used is qualitative with literature study or library research, which is a study conducted by collecting data or scientific papers, such as journals and books. The findings on the use of the internet to fulfil information needs involve five needs, namely cognitive (knowledge), affective (attitude), personal integration needs, social integration needs, and fantasy needs. The utilization includes browsing, searching, and accessing YouTube and Google. The conclusion of this study shows that the Internet is very effective in fulfilling cognitive (knowledge) and affective (attitude) needs, as well as personal integration needs, social integration needs, and fantasy needs. Although not all materials can be utilized through the internet, its existence is very useful in fulfilling information needs.

As a prominent discipline in the modern era, the reach of the economics empire has extended into various fields of social sciences and humanities, and this is an undeniable fact. However, Overemphasizing the analytical paradigm of instrumental rationality in economics cannot lead to a better world, as an excessive dependence on mathematical logic limits people's understanding and grasp of causality in the real world. Based on the fact that economics failed to predict the economic(financial) crisis, this paper sketched out the economic thought history with a playful tone combined with the economic history, indicating that the debate between neoclassical and Keynesian economics exposed the paradigm crisis of mainstream economics - too much emphasis is placed on instrumental rationality at the expense of value rationality. Shifting the focus from methods and means to values and goals, and transforming political matters into scientific affairs, may be a viable attempt to alleviate and eliminate the war between Keynesianism and (neo)liberalism. Reducing excessive reliance on mathematical logic may be the key to better comprehend and grasp causality in the real world, ultimately leading to the creation of a better utopia on Earth.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge's monologue, Fleabag, examines the unnamed female protagonist' s immersion into an experience of loss, grief, familial troubles and emotional depravity. The protagonist primarily appears to be an emotionally volatile, quite cynical and quite sexually active young woman. Her tight grasp of the audience's attention constitutes a vital tool around which the whole narrative is constructed. Waller-Bridge's protagonist craves to establish an authentic emotional connection by attempting to remedy the unresolved trauma that resides in her recent past. By forging the narrative of an ostensibly “bad feminist”, building on moments of shame, desire and endless humour, the writer forges a complex relation of intimacy and distance with the audience by exploiting audience attention in order to maintain a sense of vulnerability and alienation. The protagonist draws pleasure from experiences of “abjection” - including some discomforting experiences edging on pain and shame - in an attempt to attain a state of "ecstasy". In truth, this pertains to her endeavours to expel what makes her emotionally volatile by drawing pleasure from painful and self-damaging modes of behaviour.