Greta Rana

The Play’s the Thing

The last day we were there we went to Mt. Merappe and rambled on the slopes of the still active volcano. My sister used to tell me, “You’ll go where water won’t.” I don’t know why but it was those very words that kept moving around in my head.

By Greta Rana Nov 17, 2016

Cacofonix!

Cacofonix only had to tune up and sing a ballad to the Romans and it would cause a painful ringing in their ears and they’d drop their weapons and flee.

By Greta Rana Oct 26, 2016

By All the Vows………

The gender thing must have been a challenge for all playwrights at a time when women were not welcomed on stage and apprentices and schoolboys were pulled in to impersonate the Juliets, Violas and Katherines.Any soupcon of a real petticoat might have

By Greta Rana Oct 01, 2016

Stand up and be counted!

The one that is a favourite, often used by the ‘watch out don’t be naughty brigade’ is the anecdote of Sodom and Gomorrah. ‘ Run through the city’ the godhead demands, ‘find me one just man and I will spare the whole of Sodom and Gomorrah.

By Greta Rana Sep 15, 2016

Species’ Extinction!

It’s not lack of intellect, brilliant ideas, and lack of ability to produce that are leading to our extinction, but our utter disregard for other forms of life and other genders.

By Greta Rana Aug 31, 2016

Alphabet Soup And Memories

A serious reappraisal of historical research is needed here, plus a deeper understanding of the times as they were--pre mobile phones and all the joys they bring. Quite often we are trapped into judgements that we are least qualified to make.

By Greta Rana Aug 11, 2016

Looking Forward in Anger: The Glass Ceiling Wars

The Golden Bough is a work that puts forward the western scholar’s views of those far-gone days when to be white was civilised and to be any other colour or of any other origin was somewhat less civilised.

By Greta Rana Aug 01, 2016

‘ Vox Populi, Vox Dei ‘ (“The voice of the people is the voice of God” : reflections on Brexit)

This kind of incident led to a situation in the Nepali Press in which journalists don’t want to write the truth and readers simply want to be entertained with rumours and appalling stories about the misdeeds of people they don’t like! They prefer jok

By Greta Rana Jul 08, 2016

Munchhausen

We’d shout “ Munchhausen, Munchhausen’ after an infamous German Baron of that name who was an accomplished soldier, but above all a teller of tall stories about his exploits.

By Greta Rana Jun 23, 2016

The Sins of our Fathers

The knack of leadership in Nepal is that leaders are never to blame; at least if they happen to be male. Nobody minds blaming women, in fact it’s par for the course not only in Nepal but, so it seems, worldwide.

By Greta Rana Jun 02, 2016

Management Leadership in Nepal

By Greta Rana May 20, 2016

Shame the Devil!

Most politicians/ cadres/commanders or whatever the going term is these days cite the agreement made in Delhi as a reason why they should not now be tried for acts committed during those years.

By Greta Rana May 05, 2016

Here we go again!

Fresh air, of course, will have to be rationed and I imagine that it will find its way on to the blackmarket!

By Greta Rana Apr 22, 2016

This was our time; looking back at 2015

Relief started to pour in and, surprisingly for the ‘experts’, our impoverished, badly equipped, and shabby airport ‘stepped up to the plate’. It did not close down, fold over and die. True it didn’t organize the relief coming in an optimum manner an

By Greta Rana Mar 17, 2016

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