Greta Rana

Hostage – A brief Review

Hostage is a tragic tale of a Nepali labourer in the Middle East told with utmost sensitivity by the author who has cleverly gone under the skin of the characters and events she unfolds in her tale.

By Greta Rana May 23, 2019

Exodus 1 - From The Rhondda To The Calder

Castleford had had opencast coalmines since Roman times, and in times before everyone had a vote and power was concentrated in the hands of a few, they provided a convenient place to send those people who had displeased the ruling elite by opposing the actions of their ‘class’ or refusing to ‘swear the oath’ or go to church on Sundays, along with their families.

By Greta Rana Feb 09, 2019

Exodus 1 - From The Rhondda To The Calder (Mid-1800s)

After much prompting, a historical fiction reconstruction of a journey to Kathmandu

By Greta Rana Dec 08, 2018

Why: A Look At Certain Strange Characteristics!

The next generation of the royal dynasty were more severe for the citizens in mixed marriages. King Mahendra and his Queen, Ratna, appreciated that ex-pats brought with them skills they could pass on and they were skills Nepal could use. Today I suppose with so many going abroad to study, the received wisdom might well be that ex-pats are no longer a necessary fabric of Nepal’s demography.

By Greta Rana Nov 02, 2018

Where To Now?

We are now close to Dasain and it would be wonderful if we could claim that with goddess Durga’s help and blessings this scourge has been eradicated from the towns, cities, villages and fields of our land. There’s a fallacy that certain women by their behaviour, clothing etc, want to be raped.

By Greta Rana Oct 12, 2018

Monkey Business!

Monkeys’ reputations are maybe a tad exaggerated but they certainly get up to all kinds of tricks. They ere infamous for ruining wedding cakes, for example, Unable to find culprits for petty thefts and for moving people’s shoes the monkeys shoulder the blame!Not that they show the least remorse for it.

By Greta Rana Sep 22, 2018

Trump: A Winning Card Or A Foul Expletive?

The Republicans in the USA seem to be quite convinced that the US won WW2, partially by paying for it

By Greta Rana Jul 01, 2018

Spies

Fortunately, the 21st century has been quite nifty at replacing the real on the ground spying with cyberspace equivalents and governments/companies/researchers/can spy by handing the job over to computer whizzes who don’t even have to consider how much hurt or damage they inflict because it’s all by proxy, Orwell’s 1984 comes to mind with Big Brother ever watching from a giant television screen.

By Greta Rana Jun 15, 2018

Old Age Is A Flood

One has to move down, not up the line. The lower down in the pecking order they go, the more genuine politicians seem. Once the heady haze of power is infused into them, they’re gone and narcissism takes over.

By Greta Rana May 26, 2018

Are We OTT?

Women wanted equal rights and a much bigger share of the pie. They inched ever closer to all this not through debate and brains but through pills, birth control pills! These little wonders put women in control in a way they had never been before.

By Greta Rana May 04, 2018

Here We Go Again!!

The other theory I have; and try this one for size, is that if a nation has been on the world’s dislike list for a couple of thousand years then its people tend to hone their skills, work harder, groom their intelligence, produce a fair number of geniuses (e.g. Einstein, Marx and Bettelheim) and after that they survive.

By Greta Rana Apr 22, 2018

We Were War Babies

Food rationing gave way to food excess and mania, which I dare say led to this sad era of obesity for all nations that are not at war!

By Greta Rana Apr 21, 2018

Babel Or Babble?

It may well be difficult but it might be less expensive and less harmful than the wars that have resulted from our millennia of practising deceit.

By Greta Rana Apr 06, 2018

Boom Diddy Boom Boom!

There’s no end, of course, to the justifications of the narrow-minded. Religious differences are the most frequent culprits

By Greta Rana Mar 23, 2018

As It So Happens

If we are going forward, and that’s what the America-returned youth tells us, then it’s time to lead an assault on superstitions that put women on the back foot. There are so many it’s hard to choose where to attack first!

By Greta Rana Feb 18, 2018

The Awakening II

One early awakening occurred in 1917, in Siraha, when a Women's Committee with 8 members and 2 secretaries was formed.

By Greta Rana Feb 04, 2018

The Awakening

My focus in this particular paper is based on my own research since the early 1980s and involved both well thought out and written documentation and one on one interviews with women who thought of themselves as politicians.

By Greta Rana Jan 22, 2018

Time Spent With Kiwi And Chichi

By Greta Rana Jan 08, 2018

Winnie And Honest Joe

Winnie and Honest Joe or Churchill and Stalin: would they themselves have fought as fiercely as they expected the troops under them to fight?

By Greta Rana Dec 24, 2017

Twits,Tweets and Trivia

We in Nepal lie back and lazily presume it’s all happening somewhere else. Yet, as we have moved closer and closer to the 7th of December we have experienced the discovery of more IEDs and heard more explosions

By Greta Rana Dec 08, 2017

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