Pranaya SJB Rana is a writer, editor and journalist based in Kathmandu, Nepal. He is currently editor of The Record, a digital-native news publication focusing on long form reporting, essays, and explainers.[1] Rana was previously features editor and op-ed editor of The Kathmandu Post[2] and a reporter for Nepali Times. Rana is also the author of a collection of short stories, City of Dreams: Stories, published by Rupa Publications, India.[3][4]
Career
Rana started his journalism career as a reporter for Nepali Times and Wave Magazine, both published by Himalmedia.[5][6] He went on to become op-ed editor for The Kathmandu Post from 2012 to 2015 and then Features Editor from 2018 to 2020.[2] At the Post, Rana authored a series of popular interviews called Brunch with the Post with a wide range of Nepali personalities including politicians, businesspersons, artists, academics, and musicians.[7] The interviews were modelled after the Financial Times' Lunch with the FT.
Rana is currently editor-in-chief of TheRecord.[1]
Notable publications
Rana is the author of a collection of short stories, City of Dreams: Stories, published in 2015 by Rupa Publications.[4] The collection was favorably reviewed[8][9][10][11] in Nepal with one review calling Rana "a bold writer, willing to push against the boundaries of what we might have come to expect of South Asian writers".[12]
Rana co-authored a series of investigative reports for the Post exposing the various shady dealings of German watchmaker Michael Kobold.[13][14][15] He also led an investigation into the decades-long abuse of students by a mathematics teacher at the Lalitpur Madhyamik Vidyalaya school.[16]
