Pranaya SJB Rana

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]

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 The Record.^[1]

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]

• Samrat Upadhyay
• Manjushree Thapa
• Rabi Thapa