“…Note that though both equations (2.1), (2.2) have been studied quite extensively [13,14,15], the investigations were confined mostly to the particular functional choice for θ as θ = δ x |Q(x )| 2 dx , with a real parameter δ. Under this choice the NLSE (1.1) is extended to the Eckhaus-Kundu (EK) equation [11,12,16,17,18] …”