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Borders Create Strangers

by Pranaya SJB Rana 13 April 2009

Let’s talk frankly about India. We hate Indians. We hate them with a passion reserved for no one else. We hate their accents, their clothes, their sensibilities, their pride, their nationalism, their people, everything about them. If an Indian happens to say something remotely derogatory towards Nepal, we burst out into the streets, tires blazing and flags unfurled. When our VP took his oath in Hindi, we ganged up, scapegoating him, blaming him and the Indians for everything wrong with our country.

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Pranaya SJB Rana is an editor for V.E.N.T! Magazine. He is currently studying Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Before heading to the states, he was a reporter for the Nepali Times and WAVE Magazine in Kathmandu, Nepal.

A Better Way

by Pranaya SJB Rana 16 February 2009

Ah, America. Fabled land of opportunity, where every dream becomes a reality, where paupers become princess and life is an endless dream of advertorials and junk food.In Seattle, Washington, Nepalis gather in small apartments over Jack Daniels and store-bought momos, reminisce about the old, but not necessarily good, days back in Nepal. They complain:

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